Being that we are animal keepers, you can probably imagine we spend far more time cleaning our animals’ spaces than we do cleaning our own. At work our space is the Animal Department office, and you can see from the picture below that it is a bit disheveled! However, you also have to keep in mind that there are six of us who share a space that is approximately 10 feet by 18 feet in size! Some of the keepers’Read more
Posts tagged: #Mikey
Meet the new Kid!
Hey there fun bunch! Welcome back! It is my great pleasure to introduce you to our very newest education animal. Her name is Phoebe, and she is our new baby education alligator. You can meet her during programs by our wonderful education staff, and also sometimes at the end of our Thursday public Reptile Feeding programs which begin at 4pm. She is only a few months old and quite adorable. She got her name after a variety of good suggestionsRead more
Don’t Let Them Go! (Part 3)
Okay, here we go again! Now it’s time for some species specifics on a few of the more common released pets that can turn into invasive species. You’ve probably seen or even had some of these animals sometime as they’re pretty common in the pet trade. This is Part 3 kiddos, so if you want a recap of our earlier fun click here for Part 1 or Part 2. Or click here just because it has nothing to do withRead more
Don’t Let Them Go! (Part 2)
Hello and welcome back to the Wonderful World of Mikey! (Formerly Mikey-vision, but budget cuts forced me to adopt a used and cheaper name to copyright infringe upon) 🙂 This is the second installment of a post (click here for the first part) I had started where we talked about various exotic pets and the very bad practice of letting them go when they were no longer wanted or able to be cared for. We had talked about the manyRead more
Don’t Let Them Go!
Okay guys and dolls, it’s time to wrap your minds around a bit of a concept that can seem like a good idea at the time, but can later have very negative effects. No, I’m not talking about dating your second cousin, I’m talking about what to do with your unwanted pets. So many people get something little and cute and it seems great at the time, but then it keeps growing, or gets to be alot of work orRead more
Come to the Dark Side…We have cookies
And so it just goes to show you what happens when an unsuspecting and seemingly innocent person leaves an opening for a little bit of evil to happen. Sometimes it’s a computer left logged in, sometimes it’s a routine write up left open to be modified. And in this case, it was a locker left casually ajar… All I can say is Mwah ha ha! In all fairness, much worse stuff could have been loaded into the locker… To beRead more