SINGAPORE: As the audience stood up to leave at the zoo's Animal Friend’s Show, Bruce began to bark.
Zoo trainers and presenters Noor Fadylah Zaini and Janette Audrey Chee Min perform at the Animal Friend's Show with Geroge, a Japanese spitz. Ms Natalie Chan, Bruce’s trainer and an animal presentations manager at Wildlife Reserves Singapore, said that Bruce was seen as “less adoptable”. “He realised that whenever he's calm, he gets his reward. So now his intensity of aggressiveness towards such animals has reduced significantly,” she said.
“Like many Singapore specials, Bruce has a tendency to react to foreign objects and sudden movements by barking or lunging. This is his defence mechanism - hoping to scare off things that scare him,” she explained.