Animals, and more animals :)

2 chameleons release earlier this year

K examining an insect

The one male (as far as we could tell)
- released earlier this year

Most of our family members really enjoy animals.  You've seen some posts about K's interest in animals, and some pictures of his pets - mostly chameleons.













For the past couple months he was down to 1 chameleon,

1 tortoise (about 4" long), and the 3 chickens (more an egg-project than pets).  Recently he released the chameleon and the tortoise back into the wild - while we're grateful for being able to enjoy the animals, we like to see them enjoying their natural habitat :).

When our family of 6 was complete for a few weeks, one of our excursions included a visit to the Limbe Wildlife Centre (see http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/).  We saw lots of primates - even had one who had escaped from the enclosure follow us around for a while :).

The centre is NOT a zoo, but rather a safe place for animals, including injured animals or those being rehabilitated so they can be released back into the wild.  They also try to do some educating about the wild animals in Cameroon.

And of course, we have our own "wild animals" in our house - our kids were able to watch kittens being born.




We were also able to help a neighbor by taking care of his 2 orphan kittens - L made a good kitten "mom" :) .  Lots of kitten fun at our house!