Animal Stories: Part 1

Posted by matt1988

We decided that we want to do a series of posts about the animals at Rainsong, and how the came to be there. We will tell you a little bit about what we know about their personality and habits while we are at it. I think that this is something that everyone would enjoy reading, and that we will both thoroughly enjoy to look back at years later.

Rudi

Species: White Tailed Deer

Age: Young

Sex: Male

Rudi is a very affectionate deer, not something you would expect. He was raised by humans all of his life, so he is very used to them. We met him on our first trip to the sanctuary, when we were working up on the farm. There we learned his pregnant mate was recently eaten by a jaguar, and now she is very lonely. We got to go in and feed him, but he seemed more interested in being affectionate. We saw him again today, but this time he was down in the regular part of the sanctuary. He was relocated because last night he was attacked by a jaguar and her two babies. Rudi was luckily able to jump his fence and escape these predators. Some people from the sanctuary were able to catch him, wrestle him down, and move him into an empty closed cage for the night. When we saw him this time, he was very shaken up and nervous. We fed him some veggies and leaves, and he seemed to calm down by the end of the day. Now Rainsong needs to come up with a new idea on a habitat for Rudi, as he now knows he can jump the fence, and the jaguars also know where to look. So it is natural for the jaguars to want to hunt, so they are going to try to set a live trap so that they can move her to another sanctuary where she can be relocated to hunt things that she is allowed to, and where she will be less likely to be poached for her skin.

We hope that everyone enjoyed this first installment, there will be many more to come. We plan to try and get to as many of the animals as we can. Some of them we do not know as much about (such as the Tucans and Parrots), but we will at least let you know a little bit about their personality.

Love,
Matt and Zoe