The Animal Support Hall is always full of life. Whether it’s a Sunday morning with one keeper and one volunteer inside or a Thursday right before lunch with eight keepers and five volunteers. Today the hall was used for exercise. Our opossums Sonny and Cher are a bit on the heavy side so we place their daily diet in various places around the hall and let them wander in search of their goodies. This afternoon while doing snake enrichment, I wasRead more
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What’s for Dinner?
NOTE: I’m temporarily working part-time in the Animal Department! I love wearing my official purple shirt. You never know what volunteering at the Museum will lead to. If you think it is hard to figure out what to have for dinner at your house, imagine all the various critters at the Museum who want to eat. Preparing food for all the animals on exhibit and behind-the-scenes is a major task for the keepers and volunteers every day. Kristen recently wroteRead more
Volunteer Vox: The Scoop on Snake Poop
I was hoping to write my first Animal Department blog post about volunteering to help clean the bear pool. But, alas, the weather did not cooperate and the bear pool cleaning was postponed. But, I was already at the Museum so I decided to stay and help out with the off-exhibit animals. Maybe you didn’t know that there are many animals who live behind the scenes. These residents are usually used for education purposes (and sometimes they even get toRead more
Hurrah for volunteers!!!
April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and the Animal Department would like to shout a huge THANK YOU to all our volunteers who help us to take care of the animals. We COULD NOT care for our animals as well as we do without them!! Besides the “usual” jobs they do (scooping poop, scrubbing cages, making food, sweeping, mopping, etc), our spectacular volunteers cover a wide range of other tasks large and small. Here’s a sampling of other things theyRead more
Spotlight: Volunteer Chris
Chris has been volunteering with us for four summers. Kristen met him and thought he would be a great addition to our summer team. We get almost 300 hours from him each year.Chris will do anything we ask him to do, although doing dishes is not his most favorite thing. He’s a good sport though, because the keepers tease him about hating to wash dishes and he just laughs with them. Most of the time he helps us inside, caringRead more
Volunteer Recognition
The animal department could not function without the many volunteers that help us out. We’ve written many posts in the past about the many roles they play in our department so I won’t repeat what we have already said. This year the department nominated Donald and Sofia for the Volunteer Center of Durham’s Key Volunteer Awards.The luncheon is an opportunity to recognize volunteers from agencies around Durham that work to improve the community. I was proud to join our twoRead more