Sunday, July 19, 2009

Claws 'n' Paws

We went to Claws 'n' Paws Wild Animal Park the other day. It's only about 10 miles from here which made it a really easy trip on a day with questionable weather. We didn't get rained on, but felt like it could have happened at any time.

It's a small venue, but is really packed with animals. Our first stop was the lion den. All "cages" are out in nature with very little concrete anywhere. We were able to get fairly close to this guy.


We walked quickly past the giraffe area - they stink big time!


This tiger seemed to be posing for us.


I can't for the life of me remember what these little deer-like creatures were called, but they really seemed to like Julian.


We saw a black panther who was pacing so much that we couldn't get a good photo of him. The same was true with a cheetah-like cat who wouldn't sit still. We saw foxes and a black bear. The meerkats were really cute. So were the river otters. They had an Australian dog-type animal that had an ear-splitting howl which was fairly constant, you could hear them all over the park. We passed by the snakes pretty quickly, but did enjoy some of the cool birds, including this owl. (Sorry the picture isn't very good.)


It was a fairly small "zoo in the woods" (as they called it), but we did really enjoy it. I would really recommend it to others who are spending time in NE PA.

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