Our Zoo To You was started in an effort to help pay for the care of our many exotic animal rescues.
UPDATE: Thank you all for your understanding with our decision to retire from animal programs and encounters.
Just wanted to give you an update on Willow. Although she still is having some digestive type issues, she is doing much better from how she was in December.
We do not plan on doing encounters again, but will continue to give updates on the animals because we know how much they are loved ♥️
This is our son, Kyler, with Willow tonight.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
With a new year beginning, we always take the time to reflect on our past year and what our goals are for the year ahead.
After much consideration and prayer, we have made the difficult decision to retire from doing animal programs and sloth encounters. We have been USDA licensed for over 13 years and have dedicated our lives to doing animal rescue and education.
Many of you have seen us travel with the same animals year after year. Lillian our kinkajou is around 20 yrs old, Coco the coatimundi is 13, Bogota our Columbian tegu has traveled with us for 10+ years, Rosie the red-tailed boa is close to 15 yrs old, our corn snake is over 10 years old, etc. These animals have all worked with us for years and absolutely deserve retirement in their later years of life. We always take the commitment to any new younger animals very seriously, and with Bryan's and my age, we don't feel that obtaining new animals for our programs are in the best interest of the animals or us.
In the 14 years that we have been in business, we have felt blessed to be able to work with some of the most amazing species and have met so many incredible amazing families along our journey.
We hope that if you ever learned anything about us during a program, that at the end of the show you walked away saying those two really love their animals and the animals love them.
We have done thousands of shows and I can remember each and every one. We are so thankful for all of the support and love over the years as we took a small idea and it grew faster and bigger than we could have ever imagined.
All of these years our motto was "it's not about us, it's about the animals". You rarely saw a picture of Bryan or I. If we felt a show was too loud or an animal was too nervous, we would not bring them out. It's always been about them and what's best. This decision is no different.
So today, we are being true to our word we have given to our animals , including the sloths. Willow had recently shown some signs of digestive issues and we promised and prayed on her that if she recovered that we would stop all encounters. As she continues to show signs of improvement...we are staying true to our promise.
We apologize to all of you that may be disappointed, that we were not able to get to, that have been on our waiting list. Fortunately, it was just a waiting list and we never asked for deposits to be on that list. Through your disappointment, please just know that this decision was made with our animal's health as a priority and if you are a true animal lover, you will understand our need to discontinue our encounters.
Thank you for your patience, your understanding and for your shared love of all God's critters.
Terri & Bryan
Our Zoo To You
Our sloth lovers from Akron!
Our visitors from Dalton!
When one sloth is too tired to come out, we are lucky enough to have multiple sloths that like to be loved on.
Our visitors from Fremont, OH!
Friday surprise sloth encounter!
Our local visitors today from Medina & Brunswick!
These sloth lovers drove 3 1/2 hrs to get some Willow hugs!
Our visitors from Parma!
A local family from Brunswick got to meet the sloths today!
Sloth hugs make for a great birthday!
Chatham Apple Butter Festival, our last scheduled day to be on the road with the animals.
We do not travel with our animals in the colder months so we don't put their health at risk since they are mostly from warmer climates.
This family was the winner of the encounter we donated to Menlo Park Academy as a fundraiser last year.
Our visitors from Canal Fulton!
Our visitors from Mentor!
Our visitors from Berea!
Sloths are his spirit animal.
UPDATE as of 9/29/23: Reaching out to numbers 215, 216, 217 and 218 today.
Sloth Encounter Number Update: I am currently reaching out to numbers 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 211, 212 & 213. If you are one of these numbers or before and have not gotten a message from me, please reach out.
Our list is still currently closed as we try and get to all that have waited so patiently! It's not fair for us to open the list until we get to those that have been waiting for almost a year to get here.
Please do not message us to be added to the list at this time. This is merely an update to those on the list so they know where we are.
Once again, I cannot thank you all enough for your continued patience and understanding that we move slowly thru our list to ensure the health of our sloths.
I adore this little bird! Pigeons make great pets and start out at about $5!
Oreo, the young pigeon I had to hand raise, waiting for the kids to come out for our show in Warrensville Hts this morning!
Our visitors from Mt. Gilead!
After our sloth encounter, we did a mini photo session with our beautiful daughter and her horse, Anja, for Cloverleaf Homecoming 2023 ❤️
Our visitors from Dayton!
We had 3 excited sloth lovers meet Willow today!
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I adore this little bird! Pigeons make great pets and start out at about $5!
A little animal enrichment for Asher ❤️. This is his favorite tree.
Playing with Juno (our rose breasted cockatoo with an amputated wing) outside ❤️
Juno is home! "She" (DNA test is not back yet) is here all the way from Kentucky! What is she? A 10 week old rose breasted cockatoo...with an amputated wing ♥️. Matter of fact, she still has the stitches to prove it! Juno will be going to our vet this week to get her stitches removed. Other than the amputated wing, she should get the green light on her health. We will tell more of the story tomorrow...but didn't want to keep you in suspense.
A little glimpse at my morning here at "our zoo"
In case you missed us on New Day Cleveland.
Gorgeous day to share some animals!
Update on Mojo and Ozzy, our ringtail lemurs. They no longer do animal programs with us and are no longer on our USDA animal list, but we do still have them. Mojo just became too unpredictable to travel with. Just want to show you they are both still doing well but just living a life of retirement here at "Our Zoo".
Good morning from Digger, our pet groundhog! It's Groundhogs Day!
Pinkie and Floyd got baths today! Absolutely adore this little guy who is amazingly almost 34 years old!
