30 reasons why I love my job! (DUW!!)

Reason #1, bottle feeding Bella, our 10 month old Wallaby
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Reason #2, Seeing this adorable face every afternoon
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Reason #3, Feeding Ruby, our 11 month old Red Kangaroo
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Reason #4 Getting Wallaby kisses!!
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Reason #5 & 6 Kangaroo Kisses and holding hands!!

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Reason #7 Cuddling with Daisy, the Fennic Fox

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Reason #8, listening to her "Happy/Excited" voice
YouTube - Daisy the Fennic Fox

Reason #9 Wathing Daisy and Dakota play
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Reason #10, making sure Daisy and Dakota have a better balanced diet than I do, lol
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Reason #11 Earning a completely wild animal's trust
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Reason #12 Finally learning not to let the porcupine trap you in the cage by getting between you and your escape
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Reason #13 & 14 Getting to play with Lemurs!!!
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Reason #15 Earning a very shy animal's trust (Morpheus the Coatimundi)
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Reason #16 Being loved by an animal so much that they want your scent all over them
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Reason #17 Ya, all over them
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Reason #18 I didn't think I smelled THAT good by the time I reached them...
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Reason #19 Apperantly both Morpheus (Black) and Diamond (brown) couldn't resist
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Reason #20, 21, and 22 Being around these beautiful birds!

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Reason #23, having the opportunity to educate people about proper husbandry techniques for reptiles (I talked my boss into getting these two in seperate enclosures)
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Reason #24 Looking into those big eyes every day
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Reason #25 Having the opportunity to feed Chomper, the baby croc
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Reason #26,27,28,29, & 30, having the privilege to work with one of the worlds most beautiful and powerful animals

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Hope you enjoyed my pics! I snapped these today while I was feeding/watering/cleaning out some cages at my new job! There's a lot more, but this is just what I got to work with today.

Sweet! love the sugar glider. But my fav is the kitty. I love kittys. I wish I had 1 reason why I even remotely liked work.

So wicked! All those animals are so beautiful. Makes you tired of having to deal with boring people everyday.

Oh I know what you mean about working with people, trust me! I have a second job as a waitress, and then with the animal job, we do childrens birthday parties, coorporate, church, and educational events. We do not bring any of the tigers to those though.
P.S., there's two tigers in the pictures, Delilah is a full blooded Bengal, and Shamirah is a Bengal- Siberian Mix. Can you tell which is which? =D

Awesome job!

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Originally Posted by python.princess

Awesome job!

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Thank you very much! It's definitely my dream job!

Damn, I would love that job too! I actually enjoy the job I have but I would actually look forward to going in to work if I worked there! Actually I think they'd have to pay me to leave lol! Thanks so much for the pics and letting us see some of the awesome animals you work with!

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Originally Posted by anendeloflorien

Damn, I would love that job too! I actually enjoy the job I have but I would actually look forward to going in to work if I worked there! Actually I think they'd have to pay me to leave lol! Thanks so much for the pics and letting us see some of the awesome animals you work with!

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That's pretty much why she has to pay me! lol. It takes me about 3 hours to feed/water/clean out the tasks that she gives me everyday, so I hurry and finish those so i can play with the Coati's and Fox's afterwards. One of her partners also has a 4 month old Lemur named princess, and when my boss has her over at her place Princess likes to ride on my shoulder and 'groom' me while I'm working. It's the cutest thing ever! If I could live there I totally would!

wow that is awesome especially the croc and the tiger = ]

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Originally Posted by Thor26

wow that is awesome especially the croc and the tiger = ]

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Thanks! I'll try to get a better pic of our croc up in a few days, the position he was in wasn't the safest for me to pull him out, even though he's only about a foot long, lol he's just a little guy! But Id still rather not be bitten

I've had that same job before... only the store I worked for turned out to be a very bad one... hope they are running a good operation over there.

I envy you, thats a dream job!!

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Originally Posted by Rapture

I've had that same job before... only the store I worked for turned out to be a very bad one... hope they are running a good operation over there.

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oh i know what you mean. there was another job offer that i had which was a much larger business, and the guy who ran it was pretty much a con artist, trying to see how much free stuff he could get from people (including the workers) while he gained plenty of profit from admissions to pay for everything.
the company i work for right now seems to be legit though. It's a smaller business that she runs out of her house, and it's actually her second job. This is really more her passion than anything, and if she could leave her main job she could, but that's the one that brings home the bacon.

do you guys have any bear cats thos guys are awesome!!

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Originally Posted by nootcakes

do you guys have any bear cats thos guys are awesome!!

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Nope, we're fresh out of bear cats. I don't even think our major zoo has one now that i think about it. They do look pretty cool though

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Originally Posted by Purrrfect9

Nope, we're fresh out of bear cats. I don't even think our major zoo has one now that i think about it. They do look pretty cool though

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thay have to be my favorite mammal
they are so cute.

You are one lucky girl! All I want to do is hold a chimp before I die. Thanks for taking the time to post all those pictures.

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Originally Posted by marmie

You are one lucky girl! All I want to do is hold a chimp before I die. Thanks for taking the time to post all those pictures.

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thanks! well, anythings possible! sometimes it helps to know a few people though, thats for sure!

AH! Kasi! I am sooo jealous! That is too awesome! So when can I come visit???? :P You are so lucky! That looks amazing! ^_^

*and don't think I'm kidding about the visiting thing...I'm so just going to show up next time I'm in the city.... :D*

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AH! Kasi! I am sooo jealous! That is too awesome! So when can I come visit???? :P You are so lucky! That looks amazing! ^_^

*and don't think I'm kidding about the visiting thing...I'm so just going to show up next time I'm in the city.... :D*

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Lol come down any time that you want! just let me know in advance so i can ask my boss if she's cool with me bringing someone over! There's a RTB named Jobe with your name all over it! lol

*squeal* You have no idea how hard it has been to not get a RTB by now! Maybe coming to play with the one there would help smother the need for a bit :P I wanna meet Jobe! *and all the rest of them...*

That is too cool... I didn't even know we had a place like that around here.

LOL I know!! Luckily I have our two huge snakes to satisfy my urge to buy big snakes. Jobe's fully grown (about 7'), and we also have a 10' albino burm that's a total sweetheart for you to play with! hopefully when you come down, we'll have princess back. she is the cutest thing EVER!!!

WOW !!!!!!!!! you are one lucky person got to give you props for helping those animals!!!! :bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:

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Originally Posted by Drew87

WOW !!!!!!!!! you are one lucky person got to give you props for helping those animals!!!! :bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:

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Thanks Drew! This job definitely has it's perks!

Very nice! What are reason #15-19 called. Those things were every where when I was in Panama in 1999. I fed them fruit and sugar cane right out of my hand. When they would walk around their tails would stick straight up in the air.

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Originally Posted by CaneCorso

Very nice! What are reason #15-19 called. Those things were every where when I was in Panama in 1999. I fed them fruit and sugar cane right out of my hand. When they would walk around their tails would stick straight up in the air.

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Those are called Coatimundi's. They are really sweet animals, and generally found in south america but can be found as far north as New Mexico!