good day

Work today was amazing :) The day started with the usually cutting, pealing and cleaning... but today i was introduced to multiple animals! the first group that i was shown was the birds! There are three birds inside... one of whom is names Alfred. Alfred is a Palm Cockatoo. He is such a pretty bird, but a very moody one. Alfred really doesn't like anyone, he tries to bite you through the cage... well there must have been something different about me :) as soon as i walked in the room Alfred started making the prettiest bird calls, his patch of skin underneath his eye turned a beautiful red color (it is usually white), and he stretched out his wings and feathers on top of his head! He was beautiful :) i went over the the cage and started rubbing his beak. He enjoyed that so i decided to be daring... i opened his cage stuck my hand in... he came right up to me and started rubbing his head on my hand :) Gwen said that if was i was comfortable with it i could let him sit on my arm, and so i did! His nails were really sharp and long and i got a but cut up by them, but i didn't mind. i had a beautiful big Palm Cockatoo chillin on my arm, and i think he enjoyed it just as much as i did :)
After putting the bird back i went back to cleaning the cages and such. Finishing most of the cages rather quickly i had the opportunity to feed the Serval! He was very pretty aswell! The whole time i was in there cleaning his cage i just couldn't believe what i was doing :)
Well we all must have gotten a good night sleep or something because we got everything finished so fast :) we were just killing time between feedings... so i had another amazing chance i gave a belly rub to the Striped Hyena :) O she was gorgeous! I didn't go in the cage with her, because we didn't know how she would react around me. I sat outside her cage, and she slowly and cautiously approached me... once she got there she was so glad to meet me :) i sat there for a good half hour just rubbing her belly and her neck :) it was something that i will never forget, i still cannot believe i did that! i gave a belly rub to a hyena!
O today was a good day :)