22nd May 2011
Today we celebrated our white tiger Zena's 15th birthday. She had been with us since she was 2 weeks old and has lived most of her life with her sister Zia. To celebrate we made up a birthday present box and filled it with smoked salmon a favourite treat that went down extremely well with Zena.
Also, as part of our continued focus on providing the cats with new enrichment and things to do, we decided to make a new toy that we tried out with our tigress Lola today. It is a big cube of firehose, very heavy, that can be swatted around and take the brunt of a big cats claws and teeth. The cats enjoy the texture of the fire hose also and of course love really getting their teeth into playing with this one! Of course we can hide little bits of meat using the hose to give an added incentive for the cats to go nuts on it and give it a good clobbering! Here are some photos from this mornings trial run with Lola:
It dosent take long before she working her way through the box picking up the salmon goodies as she goes:
It turns out Zia wanted one of the candles and carries it off into the bush:
Zena and Zia both enjoyed the treats to be found in Zena's present:
I hope zena had a lovely birthday and enjoyed my birthday card i sent and hope to here more about the animals.
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