By C.J. Hirschfield
Ever since we opened in 1950,
animals have been an important part of Children’s Fairyland. Back in the
day, we had alligators, monkeys, cows, pigs, peacocks, parrots, and sea lions.
Now we have 18 animals, none of them carnivores: donkeys, sheep, dwarf goats,
mini horses, chickens, ducks, rabbits, guinea pigs and a bearded dragon. They
delight our regular guests as well as our field trip and summer camp kids. We
even have a junior animal caretaker program that teaches foster kids to care
for our gentle animals.
Today a special delivery arrived
for the animal department: the very first items ordered from our new Amazon animal gift registry. We
giddily opened the box containing one “Knotty Girlz Premium 9/16" braid
polyester horse lead rope natural horsemanship w/loop” ($28.95, rainbow color) and one “Safari Soft Slicker
Brush w/ Stainless Steel Pins ($7.88).”
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| Animal manager Melissa Tauber in her office with donated gift-registry items |
