RJ at Oshawa Zoo

Oshawa Zoo doesn't pretend to compete with the Toronto Zoo, but it's a quiet alternative, and close by, for locals. It's more of an advanced petting zoo than a zoo, but it's cool. :-)

We enjoyed it. Me, because I shared it with RJ.  RJ because he was 9 years old, and could feed pretty much all of the animals. BTW, he's now 10... as of a few days ago. :-)

It's been a bit of bummer summer for RJ. He broke his wrist so no baseball for most of the summer... no hockey skills training... hockey never stops. :-)

Though it looks like RJ is feeding the goats orange juice, it's just the angle. :-)

You could buy popcorn to feed most of the animals... the lemurs required raisins. You're given a small number of raisins if you buy the popcorn. 

A slide in the goat's enclosure. They said they used it the first day... only once in a while since.

Baby pigs... so cute. But baby anythings are cute aren't they?


A pygmy donkey in a large enclosure. Isolated for some reason? I forgot to ask.

 

Chicks. 

RJ got a real kick out of the fact that the goats put their head right in the pail of popcorn.

This brought even more of a laugh for RJ... the pail handle got caught on the goat's horns. It took him a bit of juggling to get the pail off the horns. Yet another case of small things adding to the day. :-)

If I'd gone to the zoo on my own, I would have enjoyed it, but only to a point. Of course having your child, or in this case my grandson along, is the difference between night and day.

He's discovering the world at a frenetic pace. All too soon, he'll be spending his time with his friends, rather than with parents & grandparents. Tempis fugit. Life goes all too quickly. No earth shattering news there... but it does catch me off guard now & then.

Hope things are going well for you all.

Bob

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