Land Animals
I've Worked With
Between 1987 and 1994, I was an animal care volunteer for a woman in Rolling Hills Estates, California who had a private zoo and local wildlife rehabilitation center in her (very large) backyard. These are a few of the resident animals I helped care for.
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"Mandy," a playful young female goat who was rescued from Catalina Island where she was found next to her mother who was killed by a bowhunter and left to die.
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"Fallon," a very affectionate female donkey/burro modeling the latest in fly masks.
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"Lili LePew," an orphaned, hand-raised female striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis).
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"Scruffy," an orphaned female raccoon (Procyon lotor).
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"P. J. Max," a male Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginianus). P. J. was once someone's pet but that person could not take care of him anymore. Whoever it was, they did a very good job of hand-raising him.
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"Muy," an adult male emu or Australian ostrich. One look at his feet and you would instantly agree that birds descended from dinosaurs.
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"Twiggy," a Debrazza's Guenon or masked monkey. She was always ready to be groomed by primates of any species.
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This cat loved to drink out of this outdoor faucet when it constantly leaked, but after the leak was fixed, he would wait like this to get a drink which never came.
