If you have pets at home you probably have tried all the tricks there are. There is the medicine hidden in the cheese,medicine in pill pockets and for humans you may have flavor added to your elixir. But, what about the animals at the museum? Chinchillas don’t chow down on cheese and reasoning with a reptile rarely works. At the museum we have to be clever, because sometimes the animals can eat around the medicine or not take it atRead more
Posts filed in: Health/Vet
Thanks for the watermelons
We Tweeted and posted that we needed watermelons for Ursula to take her medicine in. Over 30 have arrived thus far, and yesterday, the keepers must have had a little extra time as they made some art and animal enrichment out of it. Read more
Phun with Fobias!
Have you ever walked around a zoo or museum and heard people say things like “Snakes! I hate snakes!” or “I won’t walk that way if there’s a spider there!”. Many people (some studies indicate around 1 in 10 people) have a phobia at some point or another in their life. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoidingRead more
Ursula Update
Ursula, our almost 21 year old American black bear, has had some lameness in her rear legs for awhile now. Last week she seemed a bit gimpier. We pulled her off exhibit so we could medicate her and further evaluate her condition. We’ll keep you posted as things progress. Please send good vibes her way.Read more
The Farmyard is Closed…
Members of the museum are rewarded with several perks- one of them is being able to visit the museum at 9am- an hour before it opens to the general public. However, some of our animal exhibits aren’t quite open that early. Carolina Wildlife and the Farm Yard both open at 10am. The reason these exhibits aren’t open at 9 is simple really- we have to clean. Most of us Keepers arrive at 8am, we gather our food, enrichment, and volunteers and head out toRead more
Update: Jean is a pain in the…
Jean, as you know, has been confined to the Exam Room to recover from her injury. She’s been on over 3 weeks of cage rest and now she gets 3 weeks of some non-jumping floor time. She’s doing great. However, I come back to work from being off and read the following emails. The first from Jill, and the second from Katy. **************** Subject: Word to the wise Gave Jean Rabbit exercise in vet room this weekend and when IRead more