Magnus and the rest of the residents in the convalesce pool are a little scratchy at the moment, the Animal Care Team have taken some skin scraping from them and have send them off to the lab.
Flotsam and Jetsam have put on a lot of weight over the summer and are now refusing to do any training, so we have put them on a diet to help them lose weight. Both now have nice new coats after they annual moult.
Flipper and Yulelogs have started to argue a bit now and it is the start of the breeding season, the team are keeping a close eye on these two.
Rocky and Pepper - start of breeding season and have gone off their food, apart from Rocky who is as hungry as ever.
Carus and Dips - these Sea lions are now well into the breeding season and can be found frolicking on the side of the pool.
Dips is on the pill and Carus has given her a few playful nips which she is having treatment for. Some of the visitors had more of an insight into the breeding of Sea lions after a feed this week, when Carus and Dips put on a show of their own.
Bamboo and Thai have had lots of mealworms this week. Thai is putting the worms in their feed cube, and then returning 10 minutes later finding the mealworms in the cube and displaying a look of "oh aren’t I clever look on her face".
Bamboo on the other hand is scared of the wriggling mealworms and so drowns them in the pond before gobbling them up.
Ponies - Muffin,Tuppence and Bracken have all been put on a diet after eating too much summer grass.
Goats are doing well apart from Churchill who has a lump on his jaw, the vet has been to visit and taken a swab, will let you know the results when we get them back.
All the pups continue to put on weight and will be moved in to the convalscents pool after visitor number go down after the summer.
Mite our pup in the hospital has put on a kilo in the last week. She is also feeding for herself. It will be a few weeks yet before she is moved into the main hospital.
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