Zach and the animals

Zach loves animals.  I'm not exactly sure where he gets this love from.  We don't have any pets at home and he only sees other people's pets occasionally.  Here is one theory though. . .

Zach's Papa, my dad, gave him this Dr. Seuss doggie when he was born.  This stuffed dog is his most prized possession. He loves his doggie, so it would make sense that he would love real doggies as well, right?

When our family was visiting Grandpa and Grandma Snyder in Georgia, one of the activites we made a point to do was to take Zach to the zoo in Atlanta.  He really liked it but was frustrated by the fact that he could not hold any of the animals like he wanted to.  He did finally get to pet a goat.  I was never too far away with the hand sanitizer.

  There was a family of bronze gorilla statues.  Zach immediately went up to the Daddy Gorilla and kissed him. . . on the heinie.

                                                                 Our little lion cub.

Today I took Zach to Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, Mass.  It's a great place to pick your own whatever fruit is in season (today it was blueberries).  The farm also has lots of animals to pet and feed.  Zach looks like he is upset but he is really laughing.

After trying to eat the food pellets himself, Zach finally gets the hang of feeding the goat.

 This is the only picture I got of Zach and a chicken.  All other photo attempts were thwarted when Zach tried to stick his fingers in the fence to "hold" the chicken.

 

 The sheep weren't nearly as interesting as the goats, apparently.

 Zach wasn't tall enough to actually drive the tractors, but he got to pretend.

 After all that hard work of feeding the animals, Zach gets a much deserved break and a yummy blueberry doughnut.

 It's the end of a busy morning and now it's nap time for Zach.  With Doggie of course.