*drools over the tigers and starts to pack my bags* im moving in!!!!
one of my fave animals to work with when i worked as a keeper were the tigers, the lions are awesome too but the tigers just stole my heart, i used to go swimming with the younguns in their play pool as part of their enrichment...
id LOVE to have a "small" exotics park, but my biggest goal is to one day set up a wild/painted dog breeding program, they are just amazing amazing canines and theres sooo few left!
even if i had no other exotics (though i adore gibbons too) i would like to set aside an acre in a very quiet part of whatever land i end up on with a small (hopefully breeding) pack of wild dogs (or a couple of pairs) they are a species that seriously NEEDS more work on saving!
tell me you have them, or hyena, or wolves and thats it, im gonna come down there and camp in your driveway untill your let me meet them all! (im a canine specialist so...)
absolutly gorgeous animals, and a very nice set up too! i realy enjoy seeing your facilities and seeing you guys interact with the animals in your care, they LOOK happy, and with exotics especially like big cats, that is a HUGE thing for me, they show so much through their eyes and theres nothing more painfull than seeing unhappy cats, yours look truly happy!
You have an amazing collection of animals!
Do you own a zoo? Is it open to the public?
Where have you gotten all of these animals?
We are just a farm. During the summer- a bunch of our animals are at the Special Memories Zoo at Greenville, WI which is just outside of Appleton plus a few of the other zoos that they supply.
We have purchased animals from across the country.
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We have not been selling any lately because of all the testing hoops to jump thru. But young males are $350 to $500 and young females are $750 to $1000
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I'm an hour from Fossil Rim but still haven't gone yet. Every time I plan on it something else comes up. My daughters teacher has friends that live behind Fossil Rim and they sit on the patio at night listening to all the animals. Well not when it's as cold as it is right now. lol
Can those exotic parakeets be tamed like a budgie? They are beautiful. Well so it everything else we've been shown.