The best thing about taking your kid to an exotic animal sanctuary…

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You get to meet some cool animals too!

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Yeah, we paid a lot for the special tour, and yes, we drove a long way through L A traffic.

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But Mollie said it was the best day of her life… and remember, we aren’t even up to the animal that made her cry with joy.

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I have never held an owl before.

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And getting this close to such a beautiful bird is really quite moving.

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Also, the money went to keep the shelter going, and they are taking really good care of rescued animals.

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Seriously, people, don’t buy exotic pets. It never works out as well as you think it is going to.

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But I got to pet a fennec fox!!!

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Please do not hit your monitor screen with a real hammer to play this game…

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No matter how tempted you might be…

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You get to meet Mollie… while she is meeting cute animals… part 3…

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Yes, now that Mollie, my younger daughter, is 18, my wife has given permission for her to appear on the blog in actual picture form.

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And that is why you get to see these pictures of her, holding an owl.

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Because that is one of the animals she got to meet for her birthday surprise.

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Squirrel!!!

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I may overdo the pictures of this owl.

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But it was a very cute owl.

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I have other pictures of another owl, a famous owl.

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But we will get to that later…

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After I post pictures of me holding this owl.

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Is WordPress not letting us start new blogs now???

Seriously. I just want to start a second blog to highlight my books and written works in order to have a place to send literary agents and publishers, and I am having nothing but trouble. Any suggestions?

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Caged eagles, an ironically timely metaphor…

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Okay, I feel bad for using these majestic creatures as another slam at what tRump is doing to out country… but still…

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But we did get to see them close up on the adventure we went on for my daughter’s birthday surprise.

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And, until you are this close to them, you don’t really get a sense of how big they are… I almost said huge, but I don’t want to press my luck.

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They are stunningly beautiful animals.

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That giraffe is not a part of the animal rehabilitation sanctuary. Their neighbor trains exotic animals to  be used in movies… because Los Angeles, baby.

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Awwww… sleepy kitty.

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A lemur looking for a handout… with his hand out.

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Nope, they belong to the neighbor… you know… for all the ostrich scenes you see in movies.

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Awwwww… sleepy fox!

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Yeah… this is happening…

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You get to meet Mollie… while she is meeting cute animals… part 2…

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Oh yeah… armadillo!

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Here are a few more of the animals we saw on our adventure to surprise Mollie on her 18th birthday. You can see Dashawn filming her for their new YouTube page, to which I stuck a link in an earlier post, and will I will,no doubt, do again.

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Armadillos are awesome, and yes, that is as far as they can open up.

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Did I mention that Mollie’s boyfriend made her wear a blindfold for the last twenty minutes of the drive to this place, just to make sure she was really surprised?

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Also, I am saving the best pictures for the last posts, you know, like I do.

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Because this snake is not the one that made Mollie cry with happiness when she met it.

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Can you guess what animal might make a girl cry with joy?

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No, just so you know, that isn’t lizard sex. That is a younger brother annoying his older sibling by grabbing his tail with his own tail. I have two younger brothers, and this made me laugh.

Here is a joke… sort of… that I made up:

What are the worst words a kid can hear during summer time?

“Why don’t you let your little brothers hang around with you and your friends today.”

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Yeah, we saw parrots.

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… and a really big tortoise…

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… and some more parrots… but you really want to keep coming back for more of this… just sayin’…

 

 

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Tie dye never goes out of style… add some color to your life!

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Serval cat…

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Yeah, we met one.

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Up close and personal.

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Just another of the cool animals we met on Mollie’s surprise birthday adventure.

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We didn’t get to pet this animal.

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But that’s okay.

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It was awesome just to be within arm’s reach of it.

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And it was a little intimidating.

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Okay, be back soon…

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With lots more awesome animals…

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This blog is where the magic happens…

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Stick around and enjoy the show.

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