Monday, January 24, 2011

"My life is a zoo"

As I start this blog, I was going to spend some time talking about who we are and why we decided to start this animal sanctuary. However we watched a new show on tv tonight. The show was called "My life is a zoo" and it is all about a couple in northern Michigan who started a zoo and now have over 400 animals.

We are a long way from that, and I'm not sure we even want to get to that point.  Unless someone out there wants to donate a huge sum of cash, we plan to start small and build slowly.

But watching the show gives us hope.  They showed us that it is possible to do it.  And it doesn't have to look like the San Diego zoo.  You can do it on your own property and you can do it yourself.  They build their own cages, and do all the arrangements to get animals themselves.

In an interesting twist, they also rescue local wildlife and domestic animals that are abandon or abused.

We have considered rescuing orphaned or injured wildlife, but never considered rescuing domestic animals too.  We decided to focus on purchasing healthy tame animals so that we can take them to local schools and educate children about local wildlife and the importance of protecting the environment.  We feel that educating children is a great way to protect the natural world for future generations.

Although unscripted, I have to believe that the producers encourage the couple to stage exaggerated arguments or dangerous situations to boost ratings.  Despite this, I see a lot of similarities to the TV couple and us.  I'll talk more about us later, but for now, I see one person who is the pure animal lover.  He knows a lot about how to care for the animals.  The other partner has a business sense.  She still loves the animals and cares for them, but is also running the back office.  We balance each other out in much the same way.

In later posts I will talk more about who we are, where we come from, why we are doing this, as well as updates on what is going on with the Sanctuary.

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