Bobbing for Squash

Ok, ok, I know I am like five days behind, and I apologize. What can I say, I lost track one night and it was a snowball effect. And I had two days off of intensive laziness therapy. But back to the blog.

On Monday November 15, 2010 we tried something new with our lions. As mentioned in the last post we filled up the black bear pond for our lions. This morning we put a few squash and Sarabi's favorite orange ball into the pond. And let me preface this by saying lions do not normally like water. See for yourself what they did.

This is after a few attempts at batting around the outside. After about twenty minutes he was fine with going right in. And he continued playing in the pool for over an hour after this!!

Tau was a gentleman and pulled Sarabi's ball out for her.

She also carried this around the pen in her mouth.
It was a pretty typical day after that. I did get to put some work on typing up some old notes from 2006 on vet procedures from the time. I also updated our bear diet records and did a bit of organizing in our lion binder. However it is in need of more work than I was able to give it at the time so hopefully I will be able to get back to it. For the bear diets we keep careful track of how much food they are getting throughout the year and record it every time we change their diet. This allows us to look at their past diets and determine how much they should get at one time of year. As for the later end of the day we tried giving Natasha a deer leg for dinner. I just wanted the share this.

She had fun carrying around the room, but apparently she wasn't a big fan because she didn't end up eating too much of it (don't worry we gave her a bit extra the next day).Still doesn't she look like a true lioness?

More to come for the next few days!