It’s around 11:00 and Christmas 2010 is very uneventful- nothing to laugh or cry about yet. (Click here to read about past Christmas’ which were much more interesting!) I arrived around 5:30 this morning. There was no rain, no flat tires, no really sick animals, nothing. I checked in with the security guard and then began my day. I let Ladybelle ferret wander around. It did take 10 photos to get this non-blurry photo of her. I worked through feeding,Read more
Posts tagged: #Gus
QuikPost:Yona bear update
The picture above doesn’t do justice to Yona as her hair has grown back in since her surgery in September. We expect to be letting Yona back into the exhibit in just one week! It will be eight weeks since her surgery and she is doing really well. Her limp has mostly diminished and we’re really happy with how things have gone. I was looking through some emails and blogs and came across a really great video that Karyn took backRead more
QuikPost: Yona video
Cassidy shared with me this video of Yona (and then Yona and Gus). It’s less than 1 minute so click on the link below. Yona and GusRead more
The hammock
Summer is here! Bring me my lemonade!Read more
Quikpost:Signs of spring
Signs of spring at the museum: Turtles hatching and moving towards the wetland But officially, spring starts when you see Sherry zipping around the bear yard aerating and planting grass seed. Afterward, the bears had fun playing in the cut grass.Read more
Yona meets the other bears
Things have gone pretty well with Yona meeting the other bears. (Remember, black bears are solitary by nature). Here’s the quick version, but come to any 2:00 Meet The Keeper program and you can talk to the Keepers first hand about what happened. Sunday late afternoon we let Yona and Gus together in the house. It was fairly uneventful so we let Virginia and Mimi in too. Gus and Yona did some gentle play wrestling. After about an hour, weRead more