Even Animals Have a Snow Day with Aspinall Foundation

How’s the snow been treating you? Some people have had a downpour, some people haven’t seen any! Personally, we’ve been under a thick blanket for well over a week, and even though it has now stopped, it doesn’t look likes it will be going anywhere soon due to the freezing temperatures.

We aren’t the only ones that get heavily effected by the snow, as the animals at the Port Lympne Wild Park found out at the weekend! Many of them had never seen snow before, and appeared to be enjoying their new habitat being sprinkled with fairy dust from the skies. This of course caused a few problems for the zoo keepers, who had to battle through the difficult driving conditions to feed the animals and check on their well being.

The park’s maintenance team had a real job on their hands to ensure that all access routes were gritted, so the keepers could reach all the animals across the 600 acre park. Many of the animals were seen out frolicking in the snow, and didn’t seem to be having too much trouble adapting to their new surroundings!

Animal Director, Adrian Harland, said –

All of our staff are to be commended for their hard work and dedication in ensuring that the animals in our care are well catered for during this cold snap. The giraffe and rhino on the African Experience stayed in their houses enjoying the heating and additional bedding whilst the hardier hoofstock were happy to enjoy the sensation of snow under their hooves. There are a number of shelters for the animals which are all thickly bedded with straw and additional feeds of hay and nutritional pellets provide the extra central heating that the animals may require.

Here’s hoping that all animals across the country are safe and warm during this startling cold snap we are experiencing. If you would like to help raise funds for the Aspinall Foundation, why not adopt an animal and help their great work across the globe in saving some of the work’s most endangered species.