http://rockymountainark.org/programs.html
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We saw this place on Animal Planet, and we thought “What a GREAT idea!!”  The short version is, you check out pets and keep them for a week.  Each week your card gets punched, and at twenty punches you choose an animal to take home and keep.  It was very interesting, because in a week one girl who thought she would love a hissing cockroach, decided that was kind of boring!  We like the idea because we think if people had these opportunities maybe we wouldn’t have so many homeless pets.

Animal Planet

 

Anybody who knows Audrey knows she is crazy about wildlife.  This is her new favorite show.  She has a long list of habitats she wants to make...including a skunk log cabin, a salamander retreat, and a snake hibernation chamber.  The skunk log cabin needs to be out in the woods I think...because of our own black monster!

 

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/backyard/backyard.html

 

She is hoping to share her ideas with the Roots and Shoots group this Spring when we meet to encourage other kids to attract wildlife to their own backyard habitat!
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Pet Lending Library

Although most of the animals that come to the Ark are wild they also receive a fair number of unwanted and orphaned domestic animals. To teach responsible pet ownership, a pet lending library was instituted where each child can check out an animal for a week. These include chinchillas, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, snakes, and birds. If the child is compatible with the animal and the responsibility that comes with it they can adopt the animal from the Ark.