Raising Daisy Rothschild Author:Betty Leslie-Melville, Jock Leslie-Melville Daisy was a great big beautiful baby...8 feet tall and 450 pounds of Rothschild giraffe, a member of a vanishing herd. Betty and Jack Leslie-Melville are the couple who fell in love with her, and this is their rollicking, picture-packed account of what it was like raising Daisy Rothschild.