Wolf Park day!

[bandrik]

Another long day. Good day though. But long, so I'll shorthand it to read easier:

• Drove out to wolf park
• Watched a video documentary recently released about wolves, coyotes, and foxes in yellowstone
• Monty the photographer was there and added comments
• Gray (
  graywolf769 ) was there as well
• Monty thought it was beautiful footage, but the narration was a little too made-up and story-driven
• Couldn't have wolf-time, so we had fox-time instead. ALRIGHT, FOXES!!
  
• Went in with the foxes. Basil greeted me like usual
• Sat down with another volunteer - she gave me beef jerky slices to feed the foxes with
• DEVON APPROACHED ME AND ACTUALLY ATE OUT OF MY HAND
• Yes, that deserved all-caps. Devon is ridiculously shy. I didn't expect her to EVER approach me
• The fact that she did, well... it made me feel good.
• Devon is the dark/blackish "silver-phase" fox, by the way.
• Took several photos (of course!)
• Gave a tour to the Jr. Volunteers (children who help out, appeared to be aged 9-14 but I'm not sure)
• Rode in the back of the orange pickup truck with the Jr's - lured bison to a separate pasture with sliced apples
• Helped out in the gift shop
• Talked to Dana about a lot of ideas I was having
• She gave me my new Wolf Park Staff windbreaker jacket - it fits nice!
• I have an idea to make an interactive DVD for sponsors to view
• And to make new signs to put on every wolves' pen that shows their name, photo, birthday, parents/offspring, and general info
• Fritzy, read this: Talked to her about shot glasses. She said I should look at your prototype and report back to her
• Also talked to her about selling WP gear at MFF or other furry conventions
• She indicated she was very aware about what a furry convention is (which I thought was really cool)
• Jessica already does this at the "really large furry convention" so probably Anthrocon
• We can't sell at MFF since it's too short-notice and not worth it as there's a lot o f taxwork and paperwork to do
• Talked about getting clearance to go in with the foxes solo. She said I'm close to getting it. WOO!
• Helped out in the gift shop
• Bought a book - Management of the Red Fox (vulpes vulpes) in Captivity. I'm considering raising a fox of my own someday...
• Left for home
• Hacked my cellphone (with Gray's help - thanks!) to allow Bluetooth transfer with my PC so I can now wirelessly exchange data - pull photos off it, put on movies, etc!
  
• THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO DO
• I've been wanting to do this for a long time - even though it's small, it's very useful!
• Worked on some more rooming arrangements for MFF
• General chitchat
• Got exhausted and went to bed - well, soon anyways