Tigers live just a short hop away on HWY 85. Okay, I know we’ve all seen the zoo, I know that Animal Planet has made sacks of money showing animals doing everything from banging each other to fighting over who gets to bang each other. But this is a little different.
I want to stay away from the phrase, “very special animals” because it sounds like I’m trying to raise money for them. I’ll leave that to Jessica Biel. But these animals aren’t exactly normal. For example, you can park and take a stroll up the catwalk to look down on a couple tigers who were found as cubs living with a man in the back of his car. Or you can look out over the plains and see a couple bears rescued from a circus that used that classic training incentive, tobacco addiction, to get the bears to jump through fire hoops and stand on giant balls.
Before you leave the visitor area and visit the animals, you will get a binder that points out where the animals are and also tells their horrifying stories. This makes it highly entertaining for animal-lovers and animal-neutrals alike. Animal-lovers can feel good about paying the price to get in ($10) because they feel like they’re doing their part to save animals. Animal-neutrals can read the binder and be amazed by the man who chose to live in an apartment with a tiger, sort of the way you can become engrossed in a World Record book with pictures of fat twins riding motorcycles.
If you like animals and you’ve been to the zoo 400 times, make a change. If not, the binder alone is worth the price of admission.
Road Trips: Wild Animal Sanctuary
I want to stay away from the phrase, “very special animals” because it sounds like I’m trying to raise money for them. I’ll leave that to Jessica Biel. But these animals aren’t exactly normal. For example, you can park and take a stroll up the catwalk to look down on a couple tigers who were found as cubs living with a man in the back of his car. Or you can look out over the plains and see a couple bears rescued from a circus that used that classic training incentive, tobacco addiction, to get the bears to jump through fire hoops and stand on giant balls.
If you like animals and you’ve been to the zoo 400 times, make a change. If not, the binder alone is worth the price of admission.
Wild Animal Sanctuary
Open Daily 9-4, major holidays excepted
Admission: Adults: $10, Children: $5
Directions:
http://www.wildanimalsanctuary.org/visitors/map.html
Wild Animal Sanctuary Homepage