What a bank holiday treat today was!! Beautiful weather
that all our animals relished with delight and a packed out car park which
meant lots of lovely smiley visitors!!
One of the most scary parts of my job are when friends or
family come to the zoo to see the animals and of course to see me in
action! Today some lovely friends were
visiting from the 'big island', and would you believe my boss (of my other job)
with his family came too. No pressure
then!!
How satisfying it is when they see another side of me. Don't
get me wrong - everyone knows that I
adore my job at the zoo, but they don't really see why until they are standing
in front of me, excitedly relaying
stories about the tigers, lions and many animals that we look after!
It was a wonderful day, topped off with the lovely Indian
tigress Lola and her public feed at 4.30pm, where she was given a paddling pool
to play with. As you can see from my photo, it was quickly punctured by her 3
inch canine teeth while she dragged it around her enclosure with glee!!
We always welcome 'gifts' for our animals from the
public, we are on a tight budget, rebuilding enclosures as we can and money is
always tight. So if we have any generous
supporters out there that may have hessian sacks, natural rope, plastic
paddling pools(!) branches, wooden pallets, beer barrels, big tyres, half
bottles of old perfume etc etc knocking around a shed or garage not being
used...... Send it or bring it to us, where we will make use of it as a toy,
enrichment or useful bit of furniture for an animal enclosure!!
It would be lovely to see you at the zoo this
summer, I'm here every Monday!! 
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