Update on Butterscotch (WITH PICS!!) and other random pics (DUW!)

[ballpythonluvr]

Thanks for sharing the awesome pics! You have a very cool job there!

[BrucenBruce]

Wow, cool place to work!

I've found that sitting down to draw an animal's portrait is a good way to get to know them, and differentiate them from one another. You don't have to be a great artist, but trying to place, for instance, the stripes and spots on a tigress' face in their proper location may help you get to know her.

~Bruce

[americangypsy]

Oh and I just love that albino racoon this is the first time I have ever seen one .

[Neal]

The tigers are extremely beautiful, I would love to work with them.

Just incase nobody else said anything about it, with what happened with Butterscotch. You should pickup a little bottle of mouth wash, just incase an incident like that ever happens again. I have used the mouthwash trick on 2 of my friends when their snakes bit them. One was a 7' RTB, other was a 6' Retic.

[Alice]

Ahhh Judy, such beautiful animlas to work with. Congrats on a safe handling of Butterscotch! How's the hand BTW?

Where is the zoo located that you're working at? Is it open to the public? I would love to see some of those gorgeous animals in person!

[JLC]

Is it me or is that bear in human sitting position?

Congrats on your work with Butterscotch. You should definitely ask the zoo manager to hire a carpenter to put some back doors on her cage. It looks like just plywood to me so I doubt it would be a very difficult job.

Also, the albino raccoon is wild. Never seen one before, and our wildlife center had plenty of orphan raccoons.

Haha...yes, he is! Albert is a real ham. Getting them to hire a carpenter, unfortunately, is a highly unlikely scenario. There is a mountain of work that should be/could be done around the zoo, and the snakes are at the bottom of that pile. I'm gonna have to figure this one out on my own...which I will...just maybe not overnight.

The albino 'coon is very interesting. Not very attractive, though. Kind of pathetic looking. LOL We also have her mother in a different enclosure. I tried to get a picture of her, but she's extremely shy and it wouldn't turn out. She has the traditional raccoon markings, but they are very pale shades of tan and darker tan. She's gorgeous. I'm guessing "het for albino" produces the paler markings that she has. No idea who the father of the albino is, though.

Ahhh Judy, such beautiful animlas to work with. Congrats on a safe handling of Butterscotch! How's the hand BTW?

Where is the zoo located that you're working at? Is it open to the public? I would love to see some of those gorgeous animals in person!

The hand is almost all better. Some soreness in the tendons behind my knuckles, but that's it. Thanks for asking! The zoo is about 6 miles east of Crestview, FL on hwy 90. It's open to the public 9-4 Wed-Sun. It's called the Sasquatch Zoo. If you ever make it out this way, let me know and I'd be happy to meet up with ya!

[Nasubi77]

In the other thread about this bite, there was a lot of discussion about how to make the enclosure so that you could enter from the side instead of the top.

How hard would it be to use a sawzall (reciprocating saw) to make an large opening into the back (like, practically as big as the backside itself, maybe leaving about 3 inches around the perimeter to attach the hinges to), and just attach another piece of plywood to the opening with hinges and locks? It seems like it would be pretty simple, at least from my limited-woodworking-experience point of view. From my estimation, this would be about an hour project at very minimal costs.