Zoo Camp for Kiddo

Blogging late today. I hope all the links work--my Internet kept going up and down when I was looking and linking.

Just dropped the kiddo off at zoo camp. The camp is called Meet the Predators and she'll be occupied M-F, 9-4 pm. This is the first year that they are offering all day camp for the younger crowd. The teenagers have a cool camp that I'd LOVE to do which is zoo keeper boot camp and covers everything from feeding, cleaning, training, etc. As a former pooper-scooper who worked at the local vet clinic all through high school, I could really get into this camp!

The really neat part about the Predator camp is that our zoo has lion cubs about five months old. Hopefully, the kids will be able to get a little more up close and personal than just watching them through the bars. We've had a few of our bears die recently and our polar bear is . . . uhm, . . . being 'used' by another zoo to make babies. If momma polar bear gets preggers, we get dibs on one of the pups. YAY!

Believe it or not, our little zoo is one of the most fertile zoos in the country. Most of the animals are on birth control because there's a whole lotta action going on. We had two baby chimps born in 2008 (both mom's were on BC). I think the last time we had babies was twenty years ago. Our golden-headed Lion Tamarin's churn out a couple of litters a year. We have a two-toed sloth that has one baby a year. Our elephant is the #1 elephant in the country and his sperm is used for AI all over the place. The only problem we've had was with the jaguars. The male mangled the female's paw and it had to be amputated. We traded that male with another zoo for a more docile male. It seems the female at the other zoo was too aggressive, so this is a win-win for both zoos.

Last year, zoo camp was only half-days so I took my computer and hooked up at one of the outdoor shelter areas. When the drive is about an hour round-trip there was no sense in going back home only to turn around in an hour and a half to do it all again. It was really nice. The picnic table overlooked a lake and the Saimang gibbons would do their hooting and calling.

I don't really have a lot of writing to do this week. I DO need to write a decent query and synopsis for MOGG, finish judging a romance contest (five paranormals at 55 pages each--it is time consuming), and get caught up on some of my reading. Oh, yeah, I also need to get back into the exercising thing again. :-(

Along with this, I'm thinking about story #2. In MOGG, no one is really who they claim to be, while in #2 the theme might be what you see isn't always real.

Have fun this summer!

Write on!