So today I went to Sawgrass Recreational Park at around 2:30PM. Junior the Florida Panther was there; he's always fun to play with. He was so playful today that he was difficult to handle at times! You should see him, chasing a blue ball around and pushing it out of range of his restraint so someone has to go get it for him. It's really true; dogs have masters, cats have staff. }:)
Leah was there, and decided to take some pictures of me using my camera. THANK YOU, Leah, if you are reading this, for the great pictures! They are posted on the site as usual; feel free to browse.
I managed to get a really cool shot of Junior yawning with his tongue curled up, and also took some pictures of the chinchilla, Penelope the Skunk, and the rabbit. Unfortunately, the pictures of penelope don't have quite as much depth of field as I'd liked, but the lighting was tricky and she was moving around WAY too much to use a slow shutter speed. Apparently skunks do this really cool forepaw stomp thing when they're riled up; it was rather cute so I tried to get a good picture of it.
All the pictures are posted at the VSW pictures site, feel free to browse and enjoy!
Later I visited the property, and found that Shoshauna was still there. In fact, no other animals had left the facility! I'm expecting Shoshauna, Nikki, Diana, Darlene, and Nat to leave within the next couple of days; it will be a sad day for me as the facility they are going to is a 2.5 hour drive from home and I won't get to visit them very often.
We fed the tigers ribs tonight. The nice thing about ribs is they're flat; you can shove the whole thing into the enclosure through a gap in the fence. I've found that it doesn't matter whether you can actually fit the meat through the feedholes; the tigers manage to make it fit once they grab ahold of it.
Fun fun fun!
Your pics
John - Thank you for letting me use your camera. Jr. was very frisky on Sunday. There is no better way to spend the weekends. If we do not see your before the new year have a great holiday.......
No problem...
No problem! Thanks again for taking the pictures. }:)
I had someone once ask me why I do so much work for VSW for free, and I simply told them it's become a hobby.. Much like you'd go fishing or RV'ing or boating.. Same deal.
See ya'round!
VS
I also get simliar comments. "Why don't they pay you". All i can say to this is I should be paying them. The peace i feel around all the animals is worth more than i can imamgine. These people do not know what they are missing. Will you be around on Friday 12-24?
<strike>Not until Sunday,</strike> most likely
I have to catch up with personal stuff, and likely won't make it out there again until Sunday. I wish I could, though!I'll be there tomorrow afterall. I had less stuff to take care of than I thought. Merry Catsmas! }:)
I want to see Taj again. I heard he's getting better and back at Sawgrass again. Whoohoo!
-Z