This is the Lakewood Zoo in Mountain Wisconsin. Most of the big cats and bears were rescued from abandonment or abuse. This is a nice little place where you get really close to the animals.
Da Bears starting line-up!
Oops, looks like one Bear doesn’t want to play!
Let us at those Lions….grrrrr
Calm as can be, this lion isn’t worried about da Bears at all!
In fact so relaxed this lion is taking a snooze in the sun 🙂
Here are more pics of Lincoln Park Zoo. The flamingos are finally out. They’re very pretty. And I don’t like pink.
And I finally got to get a pic of the monkeys. I still haven’t had much luck getting pics of the gorillas. Working on it. Anyway, I want this “jungle gym” in my apartment. That would be so much fun.
The Amur Leopard was chowing down on this trip. Usually he’s moving too much to get a shot, or he’s sleeping, which is boring to watch. But he was ripping through whatever meat they’d given him.
Nice markings. Gorgeous animal.
I really want one as a pet. So cuddly.
Finally, the lion has gotten comfortable with his new home and is taking charge of it. I wrote this on my Facebook wall on May 25 – so exciting!
So Thursday afternoon I hit the zoo on my walk, per the norm. Had my music blasting in my ears, when I saw that the lion finally came out of the tunnel.
Every time I’ve been there, he just paces back and forth between his indoor and outdoor enclosures, never getting out far enough to really see him.
He was just introduced to the zoo in April, so he was probably pretty ticked off to not be “home.”
Anyway, I’m standing there watching him. He’s just outside of his little tunnel and you can see that he’s sort of roaring. I didn’t bother to take off my headphones. I was just enjoying the view.
Then he let out this enormous roar. I mean E-NOR-MOUS. It reverberated through my body, it drowned out my loud music… and it was the coolest thing I’ve ever heard.
I got my headphones off in time to hear a second one.
I’ve heard tigers and leopards and panthers roar, pretty loud, definitely intimidating, but this… this was amazing.
His name is Sahar, but I have renamed him Twinkie because he looks like one when he’s lying in the grass and you can’t see his head or tail.
I can’t wait until his mane grows out!
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All photos were taken by me, Letricia Brooks. Feel free to use them for whatever you want. Attribution or a link back to my site would be nice, but not required.
The Photos seen here are courtesy of Casey Ludwig, owner of Lakewood Zoo in Mountain, Wisconsin.
Lakewood Zoo is home to many formerly abused and unwanted animals. Casey gets them, and provides a loving home for them while nursing them back to health if need be. Some of these animal were in very small cages, can you imagine a tiger in a cage about the a little bigger than a large plastic indoor dog kennel? Yet that is how some of these animals lived before Casey took them to their new home.
Now Casey is trying to get a USDA license for the Zoo, in the mean time, Oconto County revoked his conditional use permit. Now the Town of Riverview issued Casey a ticket for having the animals and caring for them! This despite the fact that Lakewood Zoo has been there for a few years. The ticket effectively puts an end to getting the needed USDA license.
I have started a petition to get the Town of Riverview to recind this ticket which is ridiculous to begin with. These animals are well cared for and the Zoo is a nice place to visit. People get to see lions and tigers and bears and other animals as well, and these animals get a good home. Summer is when the Zoo makes it’s money to care for the animals, and as they are closed now…no money is coming in.
Please visit the petition site and sign the petition to help us out in this fight to save Casey’s animals, you can do so here;
http://www.change.org/petitions/ann-hogan-chairperson-recind-the-ticket-issued-to-exotic-animal-care-center-inc-lakewood-zoo# As of today we are at 292 signatures!
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