You know Autumn was out on maternity leave, and now back. Leslie, from our communications department and Diet-prep helper, also had a wonderful end to last year. She and her husband welcomed Quinn before the new year. Both Autumn and Leslie shared pictures of their human and canine kid. Enjoy. Read more
Posts tagged: #Leslie
Medicating the Bears
Every animals takes their medication differently. A few years ago, Jill made a post about how we get some of our animals to take their meds. Recently, we had Leslie out in Explore the Wild taking photos of some of our exhibits and she just happened to catch Janine and me giving our bears their dewormer. Just like your pets at home get prophylactic dewormers (medication that is intended to prevent parasites), we do the same for our animals hereRead more
What Excites You- PEEP JOUSTING
I was sitting in a Museum Operations meeting on Tuesday and Debbie said “I’m so excited about the new phone system and changing our fiscal year”. It made me chuckle to think that someone could be excited about the dates of a fiscal year. I know different people find different things exciting so I asked the rest of the group what they found exciting. Here are some of the answers I received. (some answers more silly and some more deepRead more
Thanks for the Help
While we’ve been short staffed we’ve enlisted the help of any other Museum staffers who volunteered to lend a hand. Maureen, from our Human Resources department, has helped out scooping in the bear yard as well as prepping diets in the Kitchen. I can only assume (or hope) that working with the animal department is WAY more exciting than sitting at her desk doing “human resource” things! I haven’t convinced her yet to act as a bear as her predecessorRead more
Animal Escape and Recapture Drill
Last week we had a bear escape- actually two bears. Well, actually, not really any bears, or at least not any real bears. We practice and drill so we can prepare for the real thing. Sometimes I use stuffed animals– rather large ones that the keepers have to track down and find and return home. It’s hard to mimic reality with stuffed animals, so this past time I enlisted the help of our Human Resource Specialist, Leslie Fann. She didRead more