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A whole lotta Pumpkins

Last week we were gifted with a truckload of REALLY BIG pumpkins. I’m sure the keepers will get some photos of the animals eating pumpkins this year to share. The smallest pumpkin was probably 15 inches in diameter- the largest probably over 2 feet! A big thanks to Ranger Ro for picking up and helping unload!      Read more
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Pumpkins, pumpkins and more pumpkins

Around this time of year we get a lot of pumpkins donated to us. These unused pumpkins are given to us by some of our members or sometimes from local farms that have no use for them anymore. We will generally give these pumpkins to some of our animals for enrichment. As you can see from the pictures below, some animals like to eat them and some just like to stare at them. Have a great holiday!Read more
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Pumpkins!

Around the Animal Department, October’s arrival meant only 1 thing: extra candy on the free table! It meant good things for the animals too, although we definitely don’t give them candy. They get a share in the post-Halloween jackpot in the form of pumpkins. Every year we get generous donations from people who give us their uncarved, unpainted pumpkins so we can give them to the animals. This year we got a very very generous donation and found ourselves overlyRead more

thanks

Thanks everyone for all your nice thoughts about Pig. I’ve worked out in the farmyard twice now since last Thursday, and it’s been weird without him there. One of my favorite stories about Pig happened around this time a few years ago, when we got a huge truckload of pumpkins donated to us. We didn’t have much room to store them, so kept them right behind our fence in the farmyard where we keep all of our tools. We knewRead more