its a bird...its a plane...its a bushbaby?

This past week was pretty much like every other week, walking animals is always on our list of things to do and it was the last Friday that we were closed of the season. We took all three cougars for a walk and i walked my baby Ashkii. What a good boy he was!
He only freaked out a few times, it wasnt too bad except when we were trying to take pictures and he pulled me all over a grassy hill, got some nice bruises from that one!

This is most of the cougar trainers. We took some time to pose as group on the front stage- and oh my goodness we actually got a picture of all of us looking right at the camera!

One of the coolest parts of my job is training actual behaviors and show routines. This is a six month old bushbaby Java. He is such a cutie pie and so young but I am working on getting him to be able to do some behaviors for our Wildlife Theater Show! We start with easy things for the babies and bushbabies can actually jump over 20 feet in the wild! Java here started with just three or four feet at a time and by the end of the day i was getting him to go about ten feet! This is him getting all geared up to jump!

And here he is flying through the air! I think its pretty cool!

All of this working with animals there are always some very horrible accidents. Some of you might have heard about the grizzly that killed his trainer last week. Sadly it was a horrible accident and as life has it such a small world we live in. The bear that was involved in the accident was a bear that was born at bear world where i used to work. I worked there with his dad and brother and sister which are great bears as bears go! That bear went to Cat Tales where i went to school then on to Randy Millers predators in action in southern california. Now one of the students i managed works there and was a back up during the attack. Thankfully she was not hurt but my thoughts and prayers go out to her as well as Randy and Stephan Millers family. And to all of you i would appriciate your prayers in my daily work routine as well. Even when all safety precautions are taken accidents still can happen in this line of work!

On a happier note I would like to say huge CONGRATS to Corey Lynch, one of my closest childhood friends Cissies husband who was drafted by the Bengals! We wish you absolutely the best and im excited to wear a Lynch jersey someday! Love you guys!