So a few other things that have happened during Species care, I went in with Trigger, our cheetah, for the first time, he's absolutely, amazingly, magnificent.
We had a parents weekend, where my parents and siblings came to Sondela, they slept over and I was allowed to take them on a tour of the Wildlife Centre, silly enough it was raining so hard I doubt they saw much since all the animals were hiding but of course, not the lions, Max and Lex. They are crazy about the wet weather! While showing them these 2, I moaned like lions do as this is my fun way of communicating with them and they moaned back. I'm still hearing it from my siblings but I don't care, I have a friendship with these animals and I'd rather look stupid in front of my family than lose this bond. Leaving is going to be hard.
I also had a chance to go and sit with the four servals, Luci & Fur and Jasmine & Elisabeth, to try and get Luci used to humans. She was born just as stubborn as her mother so she chooses to dislike all humans but the rest of them drink up the human attention and will come rub up against you and lie next to you so you can rub them.
Porky, the warthog or the village, has started to go out at nights with another warthog called Vlakkie, she has about a million children and seems Porky wants to be one of them, seeing him run away into the bush on the cold nights is heart wrenching but I guess that's exactly how a mother feels when her child goes into the grown up world on their own. Luckily, he's back the next morning, ready for his pig porridge. With all his growing up, he has learned some new naughty tricks. He will stand outside of Mouna's cage and play 'tag' with her but if there is no fence between the two of them, Mouna likes going for Porky's buttocks but only in a playfull manner.
In my time at the Wildlife Centre, we lost a few animals, we gained a very special animal, we sold some of the animals that I dislike (the mongoose) and I worked my bum off but in the end it was all worth it since this was the experience of a lifetime that I wouldn't trade for anything else.
Who can say they've slept with a lion next to them...
We had a parents weekend, where my parents and siblings came to Sondela, they slept over and I was allowed to take them on a tour of the Wildlife Centre, silly enough it was raining so hard I doubt they saw much since all the animals were hiding but of course, not the lions, Max and Lex. They are crazy about the wet weather! While showing them these 2, I moaned like lions do as this is my fun way of communicating with them and they moaned back. I'm still hearing it from my siblings but I don't care, I have a friendship with these animals and I'd rather look stupid in front of my family than lose this bond. Leaving is going to be hard.
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