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• Wednesday, March 10, 2010

  Chinchilla Chillin'

  As you well know by now, Nimbus the super adorable rabbit has been living in the building instead of the farmyard where she's usually found. She's still doing ok, she has good days and bad days, but she's eating well and gets extra love and attention since she hangs out where we are for a lot of the day.
  
  Her being in the building has also given her the chance to make some new friends with some of our animals who are used for education. She spends most of her days these days with Little, our silky chicken (we just call her Chicken). Here they share breakfast:
  Nimbus also got to meet Bugsy, our male rabbit, for the first time. She almost immediately started grooming him. Here's a video (uh, this is an edited version). **WARNING** You have never seen anything this cute:
  

  And then she got some supervised play time with our chinchillas Salt and Pepper. I love the way she gets so animated when they first come out. She really seems to be interested in the other creatures. It was fun to watch Nimbus's ears as Salt and Pepper split up to explore different parts of the room--she kept one ear following each. **WARNING** This is also really cute:
  

  Maybe Bugsy and Nimbus can play catch together! I will definitely keep you updated on that...

  

  
  Posted by Erin Brown at 3:32 PM
• Wednesday, March 10, 2010

  QuikPost: mowing the bear exhibit- or not

  March is when we start thinking about the grass in the bear yard again. We always seed, aerate and fertilize the bear yard in March- we mow too. We have everything we need on hand to proceed: LOTS of seed (we over seed), a little natural fertilizer (we don't use/need much as the bear yard gets lots of natural fertilizer), our aerator, Kent (he's the tractor driver), me, and the tractor. As you can see, the tractor is out of commission right now.
  
  We'll make arrangements to use other equipment of it's not back together in time.
  
  It usually only takes an hour once we are in the yard, so if you come by and see us mowing or seeding, you can watch, or return at another time to see the bears. You won't be able to see the bears when we tend to the yard as they are locked in the house for everyone's safety.
  
  
  

  

  
  Posted by Sherry at 11:41 AM

The articles above are recent blog posts from the MLS Animals & Keepers Blog, click the link to see all the previous posts going back to October 2007.

 

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