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Happy Easter everyone. I still don't fully understand what Easter is, or what exactly happened and why Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday all exist, but I digress. To me, the real holiday today is OPENING DAY FOR MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!!! Finally, it's here, and couldn't come at a better time for me.
Anyways, zoo's still going good. Normal hoofstocky things the last two weeks for the most part. I did get to do the tortoises all by myself last week, so I felt kind of legit when I was doing that. I'm sad that it's almost over, but hopefully there will be a way to stay there for the summer at least. I really do need the zoo in my life right now. It keeps me going when school and personal stuff gets in the way.
In the kitchen I made tortoise and bird diets and did inventory and helped make a couple popsicles for the Easter festivities at the zoo.
In two Saturdays I'm going to be on a completely new area, so that's something exciting! :) But that's about it for now. I still enjoy petting rhinos, and picking up tortoises and watching zebras run around.
If love is a labor I'll slave til the end, I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Mysterious Ways
So, originally I decided I wasn't going to do Tuesdays on here by themselves, but this Tuesday was so much fun I thought I would go ahead and post it, all be it two days late (physio and ochem raped me this week)
When I showed up in the morning, no one was in the keeper's quarters, so I just signed in and went straight to the kitchen, where there was tons of action and lots of stuff going on, but nothing for me to do. So we went back to the other room for the meeting, where I learned the baby zebra almost died over the weekend :( but he was starting to pull through Tuesday so hopefully there is still a baby there when I show up Saturday morning.
So once morning rush was over, I got to help do monthly inventory instead of make diets. It was interesting to see how little of each different food the zoo uses, and it was freezing cold having to stand in the freezer for like ten minutes counting mice and rats and all kinds of weird stuff.
When we finished inventory we did worms and crickets, which is always exciting. But after that, we got to go work giraffe feed. Climbed over the fence into the zoo and stood there in the giraffe feeding area, fed some giraffes, and gave biscuits to little kids that threw their's so they could actually feed the giraffe two biscuits. About halfway through feeding time, the male zebra started following close behind one of the females, and then we realized what was happening. Let's just say he was up and at em. He never actually jumped up to mount her (which I think would have been awesome to see), but he did do enough to disgust me, and I'll just leave it at that haha.
On our way back, Cassie, the keeper that I see the most that I don't actually work with, needed help moving the giant ball that I saw in the elephant yard on Saturday across the zoo from tiger to lion. So we rode over to tiger with her, picked up the ball, and drove over to lion. I didn't see lions, but that's ok. Then she drove us back to the kitchen, where I helped do capybara and tapir diets before I had to leave. Overall, much better than normal, especially because I got to feed some giraffes :)
It's alright, it's alright, alright. She moves, in mysterious ways
When I showed up in the morning, no one was in the keeper's quarters, so I just signed in and went straight to the kitchen, where there was tons of action and lots of stuff going on, but nothing for me to do. So we went back to the other room for the meeting, where I learned the baby zebra almost died over the weekend :( but he was starting to pull through Tuesday so hopefully there is still a baby there when I show up Saturday morning.
So once morning rush was over, I got to help do monthly inventory instead of make diets. It was interesting to see how little of each different food the zoo uses, and it was freezing cold having to stand in the freezer for like ten minutes counting mice and rats and all kinds of weird stuff.
When we finished inventory we did worms and crickets, which is always exciting. But after that, we got to go work giraffe feed. Climbed over the fence into the zoo and stood there in the giraffe feeding area, fed some giraffes, and gave biscuits to little kids that threw their's so they could actually feed the giraffe two biscuits. About halfway through feeding time, the male zebra started following close behind one of the females, and then we realized what was happening. Let's just say he was up and at em. He never actually jumped up to mount her (which I think would have been awesome to see), but he did do enough to disgust me, and I'll just leave it at that haha.
On our way back, Cassie, the keeper that I see the most that I don't actually work with, needed help moving the giant ball that I saw in the elephant yard on Saturday across the zoo from tiger to lion. So we rode over to tiger with her, picked up the ball, and drove over to lion. I didn't see lions, but that's ok. Then she drove us back to the kitchen, where I helped do capybara and tapir diets before I had to leave. Overall, much better than normal, especially because I got to feed some giraffes :)
It's alright, it's alright, alright. She moves, in mysterious ways
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