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Alright Let's start loading.
Rare, exotic venomous snakes is not a typical response for us.
That is a big Rhino Viper.
When we got the call last night,
We were told there was approximately 50 snakes
When we got here on site today,
We heard that there may be at least twice that many.
Crazy this was in somebody's house.
Are you coming?
We had two pronghorn fawns born.
The boy took to the bottle right away.
The female was almost the exact opposite.
And so the decision was made to transport her to the Bronx zoo.
Congrats, you just got your first meal.
Hi, Nessie pig.
You want to have some fun?
In order to get her to spend more time with enrichment items,
It's important to find something a little bit more challenging
And puzzling for them.
Who's a good girl?
We have a whole new generation of geladas
growing up here at the Bronx zoo right now.
I will never lose that amazement
in watching how quickly primate babies develop.
If you ask a child to draw a picture of a zoo,
Chances are they'll draw an animal behind bars.
We've got to take that image and change it.
I really enjoy this.
It strengthens the bond that we have with these guys.
- Come on. - I know... you don't like doors.
Go on, ladies.
It's not enough to keep animals in exhibits
just for people to look at.
There has to be a higher purpose.
And for us, it's conservation of species in the wild.
Are we rolling?
The general public would never get the access
- That you are gonna get, which is to see - Good girl
What goes on behind the scenes every day.
That's how we do it here in the boogie down Bronx.
*THE ZOO*
*THE ZOO* Season 04 Episode 13
Episode Title :"Great Snakes!" Aired on: June 20, 2020
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This morning, Jim, Don, Kevin and I are going to be heading
to a private residence where we were asked
by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
to assist them with the confiscation of venomous snakes.
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D.E.C. Is typically not equipped
to deal with exotic venomous reptiles.
So we're gonna come and remove the snakes
and bring them back to the zoo.
Quiet, little dead-end road.
We had a gentleman who's bit by a venomous snake
Over the weekend.
So that alerted us to the situation.
After speaking with him, we found out that he had
A lot more snakes in his home.
In the state of New York,
You are not allowed to possess any venomous snakes
Unless you have a license to be an exhibitor
Or for educational purposes.
A situation like this is very dangerous.
When you're in a residential neighborhood
and you've got over 100 venomous snakes in your basement,
We take that very seriously.
When we got the call last night,
We were told that there was approximately 50 snakes.
Now, when we got here on site today,
We heard that there may be at least twice that many.
Well, we've got a couple of heavy-duty locking trash cans
and a couple of 5-gallon buckets with locking lids
To move snakes around if we need to.
We're not allowed to bring cameras in.
It's nice to be able to rely on resources
Like the Bronx zoo.
Their specialists are going to be handling the snakes,
Preparing the snakes for transport,
and taking them to a safe location.
First look at the snakes,
They seem to be in pretty decent condition.
You can't help but be kind of overwhelmed
When you go into a house and you see virtually
Every space is filled with snakes from wall to wall.
This isn't something that we do regularly.
Snake bites for a hiker on the mountain...
That's typical for us.
Rare, you know, exotic venomous snakes
Is not a typical response for us.
We've managed to safely pack up all the snakes,
So we've got to take them back to the zoo.
Ready?
Let's start loading.
These are exotic species.
They're very interesting species, some of them.
There are some species that are less common...
Mang pit vipers, hagen's pit vipers,
Taiwanese mountain vipers.
This is crazy.
Private people really shouldn't be housing venomous snakes.
Aside from the issues of legality
Is just a logistical issue
Of providing the care that these animals need.
I think that looks good. Yeah, looks great.
We've been here about seven hours.
It's been a long day.
Thanks for everything. Thank you.
We're gonna take them all back to the Bronx zoo,
and we're gonna set them up in one of the quarantine rooms
At the health center.
And then we have to wait till the court gives us custody,
and then we can help place them.
We had two baby pronghorn that were born here
At the queens zoo, a male and a female.
The male is still being bottle-fed.
I'm gonna play mama to him, and we'll see what happens.
Knock, knock.
Am I disturbing you?
Come on.
Come along.
We hand-rear our pronghorn fawns
Because they can be flighty and very difficult
To manage as they mature.
Are you coming? That a boy!
What are you doing? Are you nervous?
By hand-rearing them,
They become accustomed to the zookeepers
So that we can provide them with quality care
Throughout their life.
Oh, you're hungry, huh?
That a boy.
He's eating real well.
He's eating about 16 ounces every day.
Four bottles.
He's gaining weight every day.
Take a break. Got to give you a break every once in awhile.
Come.
The bottle feeding doesn't take very long,
But after that, you need to spend a lot of time with him
To make sure he's getting exercise and socialization.
They're a very social animal. They're a herd animal.
We took them away from their herd
in ordered to hand-rear them.
We as zookeepers take the place of their herd.
Ready?
As their surrogate mother, we provide them with food,
We nurse them out of bottles, we give them protection,
Anything that the babies might need so that they can thrive
and grow up to be happy and healthy pronghorn.
Even though I'm not a pronghorn, he doesn't know that.
So I guess I'm technically part of his herd.
At the queens zoo, one of the iconic species
that we have is the pronghorn.
They're found all throughout the western plains,
From Mexico all the way up into Montana.
They have huge eyes
That allow them to see almost 320 degrees around them,
and they can run up to 50, 55 miles per hour.
With the pronghorn fawns,
The boy took to the bottle right away,
and he's doing great.
The female is almost the exact opposite.
Her condition was pretty critical,
and the decision was made to transport her to the Bronx zoo.
Are you guys ready, Steph?
I need you to start some iso.
We've just brought a pronghorn Fawn
from the queens zoo, and she's in really bad shape.
She is weak, and she has really low blood sugar.
Hold her.
In her case, we have to put a feeding tube
Surgically into her stomach
Because pronghorn stomachs are really complicated.
- Let's intubate. - Yeah.
They have different parts to their stomach.
And if she doesn't suckle, then the milk goes to the wrong spot.
We have to put the feeding tube in through the side of her body
So the milk goes directly to where it needs to go
So she can absorb that nutrition and become stronger.
All right, let's hook her up.
Because this baby is in such critical condition,
She's a high risk for anesthesia.
She could have a lot of complications
and she could not wake up from the procedure.
But if we don't do the procedure,
She's not gonna survive.
...pretty much damaged.
The procedure went well.
So from now on, we'll be giving her milk through the tube
Just so she gets that directly into her stomach.
Congrats, you just got your first meal.
The pronghorn is not fully stable,
But we'll know she's in the clear
If she is nursing from a bottle really well,
She stays alert, she's really active.
But it'll be a couple weeks
Until we can say she's in the clear.
The goal today is gonna be to try and get everybody
into the new containers.
People usually use these to pack their lunch,
Where now they're packed with snakes.
Look at these things.
Yesterday, we assisted
The New York department of environmental conservation
in a confiscation.
About 157 snakes were seized from a private residence.
We've now tripled our venomous-snake collection.
So, the goal today is gonna be to try and get everybody
into the new containers.
We don't know his collection's history, but anything new,
even if we were getting it from another zoo,
We would put into quarantine to keep it away from our animals.
It's just a standard safeguard to make sure we don't bring in
any viral disease or other sort of thing.
Ok, so, let's get started.
- You ready? - Yep.
Okay, I'm opening.
All right, lifting.
Really beautiful insularis.
We have two east African gaboons.
Little female.
That's a pretty snake. I like that.
Yeah.
Some are more common than others.
Look at these things.
The rare Asian pit vipers come from parts of the world
Where it's not easy to access.
That is a big rhino viper.
This is super cool.
I mean, it's exciting to see, like, so many different species
in the same room.
It's crazy this was in somebody's house,
But these snakes are pretty awesome.
That one is amazing.
- That is amazing. - Super variable.
Whenever we remove the tapes, we had to be super careful
'cause the lids do come off fairly easy.
I mean, people usually use these to pack their lunch,
where now they're packed with snakes.
This is a big task to care for this large of a collection.
I mean, they're venomous snakes. That's inherently a challenge.
You have to be careful what you're doing with these animals.
Kelvin, we'll do this one next.
Only the reptile department is currently trained
For caring for the venomous collection.
And whenever we're working this room,
We have to have two people.
But of course, we do maintain antivenin on-site
Just in case there is some unforeseen accident
That leads to a bite.
There's so many babies.
Geez.
Given the number of new babies we have,
We assume this individual was breeding these snakes
For sale to the private sector.
Off-site quarantine.
People who are serious about snakes
Oftentimes fall into this trap
Where they actually become hoarders.
They breed them, they sell them, and you hit this tipping point
where all of a sudden, you can't manage them properly.
It's a huge task ahead.
We've got to get them all weighed, I.D.'d,
and then start day-to-day husbandry of feeding
and watering and cleaning.
It just takes an enormous amount of time.
And so the goal, if they're donated to us by D.E.C.,
will be to disperse the main part of this collection
to other zoos as soon as possible.
Okay.
I think that's good.
Hi, Vanessa.
Like most pigs,
The red river hogs are very intelligent.
They seem to enjoy challenging puzzles or training.
They're always ready to learn something new, it seems.
We tend to keep it in flakes like that.
The hogs enjoy breaking up the flakes on their own.
This is bucharo, the red river hog.
He's one of two males that we have here.
It can be very exciting to try to come up with new ways
to make sure that they're always being mentally stimulated,
and it can be very challenging because I always feel like
they're almost one step ahead of us.
The hogs are a lot of fun to watch
because they're very curious.
This is Hampton and Topaz.
They like to supervise whatever is going on in the barn.
They should be on exhibit, but it's much more exciting
to watch whatever the zookeeper is doing.
Wow!
Red river hogs are a type of suid.
They belong to the pig family,
and they're found in forested areas
throughout the Central African rainforest.
Pigs in general learn behaviors very quickly.
When you watch them, you'll see them using their snouts.
They're smelling for food, they're moving the soil around,
and basically, they're using it
as a tool to interact with the environment.
Keepers really work to encourage the behaviors that they see.
So if animals are naturally curious
and investigating their environment,
we always find ways to then enhance that.
Hi, Nessie pig.
You want to have some fun?
We're going to give Vanessa some quick, easy enrichment today,
So we'll smear some of this peanut butter inside the box,
and we'll sprinkle some parrot mix into it,
Kind of keeps it nice and fun.
She has to kind of scrape that off and tear the box up.
She absolutely loves peanut butter,
Although I don't think that's a fair Gauge
because I'm pretty sure she likes anything.
Most of the enrichment we use for the red river hogs
is food-based.
They're very food-motivated creatures,
as one would probably assume, considering they're hogs.
Okay.
Something like this, although it seems fun for her
and enriching,
It won't keep her busy for very long.
So we'll see what she thinks.
Turn it upside down.
Are you ready?
Hmm? Who's a good girl?
All righty.
Here we go, Nessie pig.
And she's already out.
Let's quick go see her.
come on!
Oh, good girl!
Hi, Nessie pig.
Come check it out.
There you go.
That's a good girl. Ooh!
Get it.
First thing she always does when exploring something new
is she uses her snout to, like,
nose it and sniff it and see what's going on.
See, the good stuff is on the inside.
In order to get her to spend more time with enrichment items,
it's important to find something a little bit more challenging
and puzzling for them.
That's why we're having the shops build
a more engaging enrichment item.
Good girl!
I will never lose that amazement
in watching how quickly primate babies develop.
Look at this one.
Good job.
She's still very picky about her bottle.
I ask you again. Do you want this?
No. Okay.
Look at this one.
Oh, I see them coming across the hill.
And, of course, Gore is leading the group.
Gore... he definitely is the one
that's watching everything all the time.
He seems like he's kind of patrolling.
Geladas are very temperamental.
If they notice any little change,
They will be patrolling for a little while.
It just might be someone that looks out of place.
Someone might have a large hat on.
It could be anything that is slightly distracting.
Gore is the dominant male of our large family group.
Last year, Gore had some health issues.
A cardiac device had been implanted
So that we can monitor any possible heart issues.
We were concerned a little bit because this could
affect breeding.
- Let's glue him up. - Perfect.
But lately, he was breeding successfully.
He has sired a brand new baby.
There you can see little baby eshie
Riding on the back.
I will never lose that amazement
in watching how quickly primate babies develop.
Eshie has just been a model student.
She's just ahead of the curve in every way.
I think that speaks a lot to Gemma's mothering.
Gemma is our dominant female. This is not her first baby.
She's had a few. And I think she's just a pro.
Baby geladas don't so much walk as they hop and flop.
I sometimes walk in and they'll be doing headstands.
They love somersaults.
Very energetic.
We have a whole new generation of geladas growing up here
at the Bronx zoo right now.
The fact that we have geladas at every age level
for people to see, I feel is very important.
Hi, sweetheart. What are you doing?
Good morning. Hi, come here.
Hi.
The pronghorn has been at the health center
Almost two weeks now.
And she came in very compromised.
But she's doing much better.
The feeding tube is now out, and it's our job to get her
Used to nursing from a bottle.
what's this?
We're all cautiously optimistic about how she's doing.
Every baby feeds a little bit differently.
They tell us what works, and we just try to keep up.
She told us she liked being fed in the dark.
It's just her little quirk.
Today, we're gonna give the pronghorn access
to the outside enclosure in the barn.
Oh, oh, okay, okay, okay.
hi, hi, hi.
Did you want to go in there?
Oh, what a good girl!
Good job. Oh, so good!
Now you can see why she needs supervised outdoor time.
Pronghorns run really fast.
so...
She has to build up the muscle to be able to do that.
That was very uncoordinated, but good practice.
That was good!
I don't want her to get startled.
I want her to have a positive experience with being outside
Because we want her to become more comfortable with noises
That might startle her.
Good girl!
She's gonna have to get used to planes if she lives in queens.
She's still very picky about her bottle.
But honestly, if she chooses to eat the hay, that's way better!
Hay is better!
Yeah.
I ask you again. Do you want this?
No. Okay.
It's really important that we get her back with her brother
So that she gets some more cues
On pronghorn behaviors that I can't emulate.
Whoo-hoo! That was good.
There he is, there he is.
Every single day we come in,
We check to make sure that everybody is alive and healthy,
We check to make sure that everybody has water,
and we also make sure that everybody is fed.
These are all some of the newer babies that were born, right?
There's new babies in there, some brand-new babies in here.
These are mangrove pit vipers.
They were born yesterday.
A lot of the snakes arrived gravid, or pregnant,
and they've been giving birth.
So we were at 157 snakes,
and now we have about 190 snakes.
Venomous snakes are born venomous,
and they are just as toxic as their parents.
So, today it looks like
I'm feeding the red-tailed bamboo pit vipers.
These are just baby mice. Give them these.
They will often bite like that and then release,
and you have to wait for them to actually bite and hold.
Flat-nosed pit viper.
There you go.
There you go. Good hit.
There you go.
Good hit.
The adults are mostly eating pretty well.
The babies can be a bit more difficult.
So close.
I'm gonna call it on him for right now.
Been here over an hour.
This is the second snake I've tried to feed today.
And there's like 26 more up there.
How's this working out over here... this setup?
Now that we've got the rack system,
100 percent better.
We've lost a total of four adults,
Two that were obviously sick
and then two that we didn't know anything was wrong.
We've had four deaths,
and we've submitted those snakes for necropsy,
and hopefully that'll reveal cause of death.
This is another side of the exotic pet trade
That people don't think about.
You have no control over what these animals are exposed to
When they're sold in the trade,
When they go from one person to another.
We've been in regular contact with D.E.C.
If they say he gets the snakes back, that's fine.
We'll pack everything up and send it back.
On the other hand, if it's a forfeiture,
that goal would be to disperse the snakes
as quickly as possible to other institutions
To take the burden off of us.
My main concern is for the animals.
However it's resolved,
I just hope the animals fare well.
We're making an enrichment device
For the red river hogs.
Check it out, Nessie pig.
We're making an enrichment device
For the red river hogs.
We want to try to accomplish something that spins
and that we can fill with treats
to give them something to play with,
Something different, something new.
We're gonna mount it wherever the keepers want.
The hogs will be able to spin this,
and the food, treats, whatever we put in there, will fall out.
So the only thing we have left is just to drill a bunch
of different-size holes in it, and that's it.
Try it out, see how it works.
Got stuff coming out.
So, the original picture of this
Was actually mocked up out of wood.
So these guys would have ate the wood.
We're hoping that the plastic will deter them
and they'll just stick to the treats.
Who knows? We'll see what happens.
And if they don't like it,
We'll change it and make it out of something else.
Hey, Nessie pig. What are you doing, Nessie?
Who's a good pig?
Oh, you're a good pig.
Something like that.
I think that will be high enough for her.
If we have to make it lower, we can make it lower.
Red river hogs tend to use their snouts
For manipulating most of their environment.
It's kind of how they move things around.
Is that the easiest it's gonna spin?
For now. We can make it easier.
She's super strong. She is.
But she might not realize it spins.
Think we should just go ahead and let her try it?
I think we should try it now
Because I think she'll be able to spin it.
It's not gonna be, like, crazy spinning,
but I think she'll be able to do it.
I almost feel like it's better if it's a little tighter.
It'll be a little bit more challenging.
That's probably plenty.
Okay, Kristin. Release the pig.
Check it out, Nessie pig.
Right over.
Good girl. Get it.
Get in this. She spun it.
She did.
Ooh!
So, she's using her mouth to rotate the pvc bar.
And so then the parrot mix is falling through the holes.
The treats then fall into the bedding,
and then she could forage for them.
Again, that's to mimic that natural foraging behavior.
My favorite part of giving them new enrichment
is watching them try to figure it out.
She's trying to think through it,
See what the best way is to manipulate the toy
So that she can get the treats that are inside.
Looks like Vanessa's having a pretty good time.
Anything involving food is a good time.
Look.
Look.
It says "ostrich" right there.
We got test results back
from the university of Florida molecular lab,
and this particular virus turned out to be nidovirus.
Okay.
Nidovirus is a viral disease
That causes respiratory problems in snakes.
There's no cure. You can't rid them of the disease.
And eventually, the virus results in death to the snakes.
I need another set of these.
We have to test the rest of the confiscated snakes.
We don't know who's infected or who's not.
And that's a problem in the exotic-pet trade.
There is no monitoring of these animals.
We have to do diagnostics on a lot of snakes.
We have about 180 in the room,
and if they're negative and don't have the virus,
we would isolate them further.
Animals that are positive would remain in the existing room
and possibly be euthanized.
All right, what are we starting with?
We'll do these two gaboons to get them out of the way.
Put some pressure on it so it can't do that turnaround thing.
You got it?
In order to pull samples for this viral testing,
We have to swab the oral cavity back in the esophagus.
Okay, got it.
- Good? - Yep.
We'll send the samples to the university of Florida,
and we're hoping they can give us test results
Within a couple of weeks' time.
Okay.
178 left to go.
Hello, little lady.
Everybody has a different technique with the bottle.
Not ready yet?
Hey!
What are you doing, buddy, huh?
We got visitors.
Don't be shy.
Today, we're gonna go feed the male baby pronghorn.
I know. Who's that?
Who's that?
And every day is a new adventure with this baby.
Starts every morning at 6:30.
We come in. We give him his first bottle.
Right now, he's eating about 25 ounces a day.
He eats four or five times a day.
He needs a lot of attention. He needs a lot of care.
I guess it's just like raising a kid.
You know, you want to see it just be healthy and happy.
That's it. No more.
Clean-plate club, huh?
He is thriving.
Hopefully, within the next week or so, we'll actually be able
to get him on exhibit so that he can run around
and do the things a normal pronghorn would do.
With any luck, his sister will be back.
So hopefully, maybe we can put the two of them out there
To do the same thing.
The plan for feeding the pronghorn
is to get her used to you,
make her comfortable with you feeding her.
And I want to stay as much out of the picture as possible.
Okay.
Because the pronghorn that we have here has been so picky,
It's really important that we integrate Donna
from the Queens Zoo as one of the feeders
while the pronghorn is still here at the health center.
This way, we're not changing too many things at once
When she goes back to the Queens Zoo.
Hello, little lady.
Hello! Hello, mama!
Hello. How are you doing?
How are you doing?
So, I now have to take whatever Lisa was doing before
and whoever else was feeding her,
Take all that information and try and incorporate it
into what I'm gonna do,
Because everybody has a different technique
With the bottle.
Hey.
Not ready yet?
Come on, baby.
I know.
Whenever you're ready.
If I start sounding like I'm stressed, she picks up on that
and she wants nothing to do with me,
So I just have to keep it nice and light and airy
Until she eventually comes across and trusts me, you know.
Well done, sweetheart.
Yay!
That is amazing! I think.
Yeah, she did really well.
The pronghorn has done unbelievably well.
She's running around.
She's doing little hippity-hop things,
All normal pronghorn things, which is fantastic,
Which means she needs more space.
So she needs to go back to the Queens Zoo.
So it's amazing that she's going back to be with her brother.
They're huge. Oh, my gosh.
Into the hot zone.
Wow.
And really, they look and act normal...
till they don't, you know.
So, the test results are back,
and nearly 3/4 of the snakes tested
were positive for nidovirus.
You know, it's kind of heartbreaking
to put in all that effort
and then find out that a lot of the snakes
are gonna be difficult to place
or that they may even be euthanized.
This issue might have started with one animal
That the individual brought into his collection
That was carrying the nidovirus.
That could have exposed
the rest of his healthy collection to this.
Well, it's certainly not the ending we were hoping for.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
The good thing is that there's a percentage of the animals
that we were able to clear,
and other zoos stepped up to take them
and incorporate them into their breeding programs.
And there's animals that we were interested in
That we'll be able to keep.
Out of all the snakes that we got in this confiscation,
it looks like we're gonna keep 13 here at the Bronx zoo.
So, the mang vipers tested negative?
Mangs are a negative, yeah.
That was lucky.
Yeah.
The mangs, of course, were the ones we most were
hoping we could add to our existing breeding group.
The others that we're planning on keeping
are a little less-frequently seen in zoos.
For instance, like these bothriopsis bilineata.
They're a real pretty central American species.
They are really nice.
And the brongersma's pit viper pair up there.
That's a recently described species.
I think 2014 is when they were described.
So I don't think there's any of them
in a.Z.A. Collections right now.
Really?
This is a snake box.
Some of the stakes that we are sending out
are absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, some of them are just spectacular.
Preliminary arrangements have been made with Cameron park zoo,
Toledo zoo, Dallas zoo, Nashville zoo,
and then we have a couple of other facilities
We're looking at.
Their interested in a variety of species,
Some of the mangrove pit vipers,
The red-tailed bamboo pit vipers,
Sidewinders.
That's why we get involved in situations like this.
It's always about the welfare of the animal.
We'll step in.
We'll do the best we can and try to guarantee
that these animals have a good life from here on in.
Today is the day that we're going to bring home
the female pronghorn.
Hi!
What do you think, huh? Nervous.
He may not know what she is.
He may go, "I don't know what that is.
I've never seen that. All I've seen is humans."
You're gonna go hide, aren't you?
Good morning. Oh, boy.
It's pronghorn's to-go box.
Look at that.
Got bottles and stuff in there, too, right?
Uh-huh.
We're at the Bronx zoo health center,
and today's the day that we're going to bring home
The female pronghorn.
It's nothing exciting at all. It's just a crate.
One, two, three. Easy peasy.
This is the last milestone that I'm directly involved in,
Which is bringing her to the queens zoo
and helping ease her transition.
I am an anchor. I am something she is comfortable with.
Pronghorn are herd animals.
Just like any other herd animal,
being alone is not their natural state.
So being with her brother...
that is one step toward being reunited with the herd.
She's here!
It's been two months since she's been gone.
And it's gonna be great to reunite her with her brother.
Hi!
We want to introduce her to her holding space.
And then once she gets used to that,
We'll introduce her brother,
and we'll let them kind of get reacquainted with each other.
What a good girl!
What do you think, huh?
Nervous.
You're gonna go hide, aren't you?
I think because they are a herd animal,
They're gonna want to get together immediately
and do what herd animals do.
You think I'm gonna protect you? Who's that?
Or he may not know what she is.
He may go, "I don't know what that is.
I've never seen that. All I've seen is humans."
Now he's better. Now he's just curious.
Should we do it? Yeah.
- Come on. - Might as well.
I'm not gonna protect you.
Got a little skip, huh?
Lots of sniffin' going on.
Maybe he remembers her from two months ago.
Maybe she remembers him. Who knows?
That was truly a Kodak moment.
Mm-hmm.
But they seem to be getting along great.
"I want to play with you."
Come on!
"Let's play."
I think we see who's in charge, huh?
Nice!
It went better than I could have ever hoped for.
A little bit of head-butting, which is just normal behavior.
She pushed him around a little bit,
Which I don't think he was expecting.
But it was good to see 'cause that means
She can stand up for herself.
But other than that, it was just perfect.
Oh! Oh, oh!
Oh! Oh, okay.
He's like, "that's enough of that."
He's like, "I have headgear."
Mm-hmm.
Next step would be to put them on exhibit.
We could see them run and play and just be happy and healthy.
- Doing good, right? - Yeah!
I think so.
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