Critter Keeper Sunday....

It was another Critter Keeper at the Zoo day. This weekend was for visiting the animals on "The Children's Trail". First they visited the goats at the petting zoo, and learned the proper way to be a "pooper scooper"! They each had a list of items to check off: making sure the goats had water, check their eyes, ears and noses for discharges, count the goats to make sure they were all there, make sure they were all brushed.

Then, give Patches the goat a bath:)) Each of the goats get a bath once a year.

Next, they painted a cardboard box, filled it with fruits and vegetables, and gave it to the warty pigs! for "behavioral enrichment". Here they are with Josh- the warty pig keeper- filling the box with food. They threw it over the fence and watched the pigs devour it.

Here is the alpha pig whose name I do not remember. He has to eat first, and will not let any of the other pigs eat until he is done- except for one very small pig who is is friend:))

Next, we visited Padfoot the ocelot. Padfoot is trained to go into his indoor cage when the keeper asks him to. Then the kids went into the ocelots cage and hid small pieces of meat. We watched him search out his territory to find all of the hidden treats.

Watching Padfoot.

Last but not least, they learned how to properly hold a turtle, never turning the turtle on his back because of the possibility of a "torsion"- twisted intestines. This is Wonka. His wife is Willy:)

After the zoo, we decided to go out for lunch/dinner. We didn't have good luck with restaurants. The first one didn't even come over to our table, so after sitting there for awhile, we left. We then went to our usual Vietnamese restaurant, but they were closing early. Next we went to another Vietnamese restaurant in the same Vietnamese complex. It smelled so bad in there, like rotting fish, that we were gagging. We walked out and were shot with daggers. Next, we went to a Chinese restaurant, ordered... and the food was so hot and spicy that we couldn't eat it. For some reason, we brought it home and it's sitting in the refrigerator uneaten. Better luck next time.