theparkerfamily

i love going to the petting zoo, and — according to gowalla, and foursquare before that — we’ve been to the “kid’s farm” roughly two dozen times since early May.we go because i love that sparklet enjoys going to a “farm,” even if it is a fake farm with fru-fru animals like Miniature Mediterranean Donkeys and Anglo-Nubian Goats. that, and it’s only a couple blocks away so we go all the time.

today, however, we noticed someone was missing — Ethyl, one of two Nigerian Dwarf Goats. (fwiw, the other is named Lucy … in a fit of “I Love Lucy” hilarity.)

we asked one of the zoo keepers (who was really quite worked up about it) about what happened and she said Ethyl passed away earlier in the week after some time in the Zoo’s hospital.

now, sparklet’s obviously too young to know any better … but before we lose any more Zoo friends, we decided to do a “guestbook” of those we see the most:

Pat Miniature Mediterranean Donkey	Giuseppe Miniature Mediterranean Donkey
George Miniature Mediterranean Donkey	Flash Miniature Mediterranean Donkey
Tulip Holstein Cow	Rose Polled Hereford Cow
Mortimer San Clemente Island Goat	Iris Anglo-Nubian Goat
Lucky Anglo-Nubian Goat	Marla San Clemente Island Goat
Lucy Nigerian Dwarf Goat	Cirrus Alpaca
Orion Alpaca	Ziggy Alpaca

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kids farm, national zoo, washington, dc