Yesterday Granny Artemis & I were driving around to nurseries when we
spotted in a Ford sales lot an ad hoc "petting zoo" so we pulled in there
& jumped out of the car. There were lots of young mothers standing around
outside the corral watching their kids with the animals, a few teenagers
inside the corral, but like only one full grown adult playing with
animals. It was SLIGHTLY embarrassing to be an adult eager to play with
baby animals, but hey, if those young mothers outside the corral had lost
their sense of joy interacting with animals, that's just sad for them.

Granny Artemis & I sat on the floor of the corral & were visited & nibbled
on by a Patagonian cavy about three times the size of a regular guinea
pig, a baby potbelly pig about the size of a big loaf of bread, a half
dozen baby pygmy goats hardly any bigger than large cats, a full-sized
nanny goat who was present so that the baby pygmy goats wouldn't get
dehydrated for need of milk, a de-horned bottle-raised Zebu (a miniature
but very wild type of cow that I've never seen so tame before; they're
usually hinky around strangers), an elderly dwarf horse smaller than a
great dane who loved to be scratched around his ears & cheeks, plus a
yab-yab-yab-yabbering duck, & what else, oh yeah, a bunch of children. It
was great.

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