A Day in the Life of a Zookeeper

A Day in the Life of a Zookeeper
Ever wonder what its like to share your world with a bunch of crazy critters? Tune in to find out!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve - Travel Prep

Its Christmas Eve and we fly today to Seattle.  It stresses me to leave my babies - especially since my ace pet sitter has her own Christmas plans and is not available to watch my babies.  We have several folks on standby who can access the house should there be a need.  We will be monitoring via cameras.  Emma will be at the kennel.

Nigel has been relocated out of his cage into the playpen in the living room.  I do this for a couple of reasons.  First he has more room in the pen to run around, second his away feeder where we put his bugs is too big for the cage and third he is downstairs where everyone else is rather than in his room alone.  He has a camera set up so we can view his pen and make sure he is okay.  We can also see water and food levels so we can have someone come in should he run low.

Kitties - they are free feeders so they have their full feeder plus an extra large bowl of food.  They have two watering stations - enough to last them about a month - plenty for the few days we will be gone.  We have a camera focused on their feeding station - a good way to catch them on camera as well as keep tabs on food and water levels.  We also have cameras that focus on the couch - Zoey's favorite sleeping spot, the cat tree and the entry.

Clooney has his own camera focused on his chair in the closet.

6 cameras in total - should be able to see pretty much everyone each day.  I miss these guys when we go.....

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