It is with a heavy heart that I report the loss of our opossum Galileo. Recently he started to show signs of heavy labored breathing and his appetite had decreased greatly. We took him to the vet for x-rays on Tuesday October 15, 2013 and found that he had fluid in his chest cavity that was preventing him from breathing properly. It was determined that he needed to be euthanized. The final results of the necropsy are still pending, butRead more
Posts tagged: #Galileo
Galileo’s Field Trip
Galileo took a field trip last week. ( I love when the keepers get the opossums out for field trips. I think Sonny’s field trips were my favorites). Read more
Funny opossum photo
Katy has been going through her photos and came across this one of Galileo which made us both laugh. Annie was terrified when she found Galileo in the ball so the ball now looks like this But, since the opossum got out of the ball just fine, Katy and I think the ball should not be labeled “not for opossum use” but rather “not for Annie use” Read more
Henry & Galileo’s Super Bowl Prediction- 2013
The San Francisco 49ers go head to head with the Baltimore Ravens, so who is our woodchuck and opossum rooting for? A few years ago Henry was right Last year we had a snafu with the video and Henry chose incorrectly, but Galileo was right. Watch the video below to see who Henry and Galileo chose Read more
Galileo and his paper
I have done several posts before on our opossum Galileo. Recently, he had an agenda of redecorating his bed Read more
More eggs
Recently, a friend of the Animal Department donated some eggs to feed our animals. The animals that we usually feed eggs to are the bears,wolves,opossums and recently we gave one to the muskrats. In my opinion the opossums love them the most.They are real eager to eat them. Here is a little video I made of Galileo and Sonny Opossum devouring the gifted eggs. Read more