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!

Monday, June 09, 2014

The Stories of the Day

It was another crazy jam packed Monday - why do they have to be so crazy?  Couldn't we just ease back into the week?

Fish Tales -

SteveIrwin, JackHanna and Cousteau all seem to be doing well.  They are all quite active and have great appetites.  JackHanna is a tiny bit less neurotic about seeing his reflection and is getting used to me doing things in and around his tank.  He is even coming up to the surface to say hi along with SteveIrwin.  Cousteau is the most elusive of the three but he seems to be enjoying his cleanup duties. We have the filter all set up and the biological boosters in there so now all we have to do is get the tank to cycle - ugh - I forgot about this part....

Cat Tales -

It was a pretty uneventful kitty day with the exception of the spiteful pee cat Zoey - she was nice enough to leave a puddle on the bed.  Sigh.  Needless to say there was a lot of laundry today.  But - the good news is that I started putting a waterproof mattress liner on our bed after the first incident of spiteful peeing so it didn't hurt the mattress and the liners wash up like nothing ever happened.  Whew!

Dog Tales -

Miss Emma joined us for a 4 mile walk this morning.  She then proceeded to snooze - chase Theo the ferret who stole her bone - and scratch on the carpet.  I noticed yesterday for the first time that my old girl was a little slow to get up yesterday.  I gave her a nice long rub down and today she seems as good as new!

Ferret Tales -

The ferrets all seem great.  Clooney was up and around today and quite spry.  Violet was very social for a good bit of the morning.  Maddie was her regular affectionate self and wanted cuddles and kisses and the little boys Finn and Theo were full of ornery as usual.  Happy to see them doing so well....

The humans are tired tonight - might be turning in early....hoping for a calmer Tuesday.

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