ah-- i was the manager of a petting zoo for an amusement park run by our kibbutz. it was a 24/7 365 day job... for ten years, previously i had done it part time (on our saturday once every four weeks duty roster work), am now in hotel reception /reservations or something of that sort... (here we move around quite a bit in jobs)
we had goats as pets, various fowls (which at the time i was totally not interested, now the guy that used to take care of the fowls laughs at me about my chickens in the house, etc), a donkey rescue (unofficial but everyone in the area, vets etc, knew that i always took in donkeys, here, they get abused, starved, burnt, tortured, neglected and overworked so the various gov't agencies/police/army are always confiscating donkeys and looking to place them in good homes. at one point i had 13!, including a few foals that were born while with me).
we also had a rotating bottle raised lamb or three; when old enough , went back to their farm to become, most likely, meat or milk, we had reptiles (non poisonous only), an emu or two, at one time had ostriches who became bbq dinner after attacking employees (who refused to listen to me about training them to go in to an enclusure before an employee enters the large yard), and various wild israeli animals that were rescues, as part of wildlife rescue organizations cooperation... so had at various points foxes, caracals, swamp cats, gazelles, ibexes, and at one point we also had a camel, and some alpacas... we aslo had a rescued arabian stallion that hsi owner no longer wanted because of a badly healed broken leg (didnt want to do operations), but couldnt put down either. we had a hand raised mediterreanean porcupine, ferrets...
