Life and death

Do ghost-cats exist? What do you think? I've been discussing it in some depth with Anthea over at the insect house. We both think that they do and I think I've seen one. Last Wednesday evening I was in the kitchen making some marmite on toast for my tea when out of the corner of my eye I saw this lump on the floor and heard what I can only describe as a vibrating cat noise... Well I can tell you it freaked me out! I spun around to see what it was and there was nothing there... very spooky indeed! I shan't be eating marmite on toast in a hurry if that's the sort of things that it can summon up!

Tragic news my friends. Norman the tortoise has been found dead. He was lying in a ditch not far away from where I last saw him near the primate house. His little feet were sticking right up in the air and he's gone all boss-eyed. Nobody knows what happened but I suspect foul play! I reckon that peacock that had a go at me the other day has something to do with it but nobody wants to listen to me. Anyway they're going to check the CCTV records to see what happened immediately before his death.

In other zoo news it seems that Arnold the Orangutan has been hiding a secret. Arnold, it can be revealed, is up the duff and therefore we can only conclude that he has been hiding his ovaries from us all for the past four years. Sneaky bugger! Anyway - I suppose it's still good news.

Must get off now - I have to go and scrub up some puke which some school child kindly left for us outside the bat enclosure. Joy!

Bye for now my lovelies

Barbara x

A boring day...

Well my lovelies, it's been a bit of a boring day today. I was played poker with Bill this afternoon at the insect house - we used the Pea beetles as counters - I won. I lost a couple of the faster little buggers but there's plenty of them around so it doesn't really matter.
I did a bit of a clean up near the primate house and found Norman the tortoise still there from last time I saw him. Thought that was a bit weird. He's still twitching a bit but now he seems to be walking in very slow and very big circles. Still he seemed to be eating okay, he scoffed down a couple of chips he found on the ground just while I was there!
Good news! Melanie, the black tailed monkey, has turned up. She's a bit grumpy but we've got her back under lock and key and we've got the psychologist popping round tomorrow to visit her. He seems to think that all we need need do is get her to pop a couple of Valium and play her some calming music and she'll be right as rain. I'm going to dig out some old Sting records for her, that'll do the trick.
No more to tell today I don't think so I'll say TTFN

Barbara xx