Presents: Critter Army Camp Wrap-Up
is pleased to denote a successful closed to the 2015 Summer Camp season. We held our biggest flavor however - xv sessions over 8 weeks. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large give cheers y'all to our campers - our animals, staff, together with volunteers enjoyed having y'all here!
Critter Camp
Over the course of report of 4 weeks, 32 kindergarten together with get-go graders joined our military camp teachers, Ms. Ashley Phoenix together with Ms. Kelly Miller, together with adult together with teen volunteers for a three-day military camp to acquire close together with tour our shelter, run across many animals, together with practice crafts for the bunnies, rabbits, together with dogs to enjoy. The military camp followed a three-day themed schedule including Bunny Day, Cat Day, together with Dog Day.
Bunny Day
Kerri Nevills, an volunteer together with foster nurture for rabbits, has been a invitee speaker at Critter Camp for many years now. Kerri comes to speak to the campers close foster tending together with how to induce got rabbits. This summer, Kerri brought inward her ain therapy bunny, Aubrey, along amongst her foster bunny for the children to run across together with inquire questions about. After coming together Kerri’s rabbits, the campers were given a salubrious snack plate that included a blueberry, a carrot slice, together with parsley to feed to the rabbits currently living at the shelter. For all the rabbits that didn’t acquire a snack, the kids made a small-scale process bag, filled amongst timothy hay, that they got to lookout the bunnies opened upwards together with eat.
Cat Day
At each Critter Camp session, the children were able to run across several foster kittens around the historic menstruum of 8-10 weeks old that were brought to the shelter past times their foster moms, volunteers Diane Friske together with Jewell Jackson. Afterwards, the campers divided into 2 separate truthful cat viewing rooms to accept turns coming together together with playing amongst 2 kittens living at the shelter during their military camp session. The campers thus made 2 dissimilar crafts including a ghost cuddle toy together with a fringed john newspaper ringlet for all the older cats living at the shelter to play with.
Dog Day
Each military camp session ended amongst Dog Day. The twenty-four hours began amongst the campers making homemade biscuits for the dogs living at the shelter. While the treats were baking, Barb Gesmond, an Therapets volunteer, brought inward her therapy Canis familiaris Spartacus for the campers to run across together with pet. Spartacus is a sometime resident, together with he loved coming dorsum to play amongst the campers. By the destination of camp, Spartacus was thus comfortable amongst the kids petting him, he began to straightaway ringlet on his dorsum to acquire his belly scratched. The shelter too had several litters of puppies living at the shelter over the course of report of our summertime session. Using gentle petting techniques, the kids got to accept turns petting the puppies that were brought into the classroom past times Canis familiaris treatment volunteers. For the remaining dogs living at the shelter, the campers got to walk past times the cages feeding each Canis familiaris the finished biscuits they made before that day.
Our teachers together with volunteers had such a groovy fourth dimension at Critter Camp this summer. We had several campers that had returned from terminal year, together with nosotros await frontward to seeing all of our campers 1 time again side past times side year!
Critter Camp is 1 of 4 military camp options, based on the flat that the pupil has completed the prior spring. You tin notice to a greater extent than Critter Camp photos together with those from our grades 2-11 camps posted on ’ Facebook page.
Details close 2016 summertime military camp volition hold out posted inward Feb at www.ThinkingOutsideTheCage.org/camp, together with registration opens inward early on March.
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