Q&A On Our Way To Pick Up A New Animal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- On our drive to go pick up a new animal, we answered questions from viewers! Jessi goes into how animal enrichment is managed for the multitude of animals at the animal center, Augusto discusses his animal career, baby animal footage is shared, lots of good advice is given, and even the kids join in the conversation at the end!
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Jessi: Do we work 24 hours a day?
Agusto: No, no, we don't work 24 hours a day. We work, like, 40 hours a day.
Jessi: Accurate.
XD
Jessi:This is the way
We always love a video with Augusto!
Nice to see Augusto! Thanks for answering all these questions. It's so cool that Huckleberry is your BFF. He's such a goober. Can't wait to see the new animal. Glad to see everybody is well.
While they may not be the best option, a dog seat belt restraint that connects to a harness, dog booster seat (which should also have a tether that connects to a harness), or something similar that adapts the restraints used for humans in cars for dogs might be a good option for dogs that don't take to crates well. I got my dog when he was at least a year or 2 old, and he hated crates, we really tried to crate train him, but he just wouldn't do it. We travel every couple of months to visit my parents, I use a seat belt adapter for him on my passenger seat (he doesn't weight enough to trigger the airbag) and a set up to keep him comfy on a 4-6 hour car ride.
I like these longer Q&A's & think it might work to do something similar during animal chores. It would depend on the chore & how your brain works.
I would love to see you & "Snake Discovery"(Minnesota), "Falconry and Me"(UK), or "2CAN TV"(Texas?) do a collab.
I was also thinking of Snake Discovery and 2CAN TV. :)
Falconry and Me would be superb!
Yeah I think snake discovery would be cool
I sent Animal Wonders a message back when Snake Discovery was doing their build-off competition. I know that it would be hard to leave for a meet up but Ed & Emily do travel a bit. Its a pipe dream but seeing Cheyanne meet Joy and Scarlet … i can dream that they can be besties even if its not realistic 😂
A colab with Martin Tyner could be really cool. Its just so hard to have people with rescues travel. Good thing Zoom is an option now haha
This was a lovely vid. Augusto made the right choice with the snickers. I am guessing, the new animal is some kind if mammal. Maybe a new fox? I look forward to finding out.
How adorable was that last section with all four of you and a hundred billion hedgehogs!
Can't wait for the meet and greet!
Thank you for talking about some of the harder parts of animal rescue. I work with pit bull rescue, and compassionate euthanasia is a hard part of the picture sometimes. So is saying "no" when we don't have the resources to adequately care for another dog. It's not as easy as tossing out another handful of food - and it's a hard thing to keep at the front of mind.
In terms of crate comfort, I make sure my rats' crarrier always has treats, a small hide and bedding that smells of them. When going to the vet, I always bring two rats. That way, if anything gets stressful, they've got their buddy. Plus, it means everyone gets more experience going to the vet and it's not weird. I also like taking transit when possible. It means I can focus on them rather than driving.
For longer trips, I have a larger carrier that I set up like a miniature cage with toys, bedding, hides, food and even a water bottle. I set it up the night before and let them explore it during playtime. They typically spend the whole 9 hour drive home for Christmas just doing their thing in there. The only difference in behaviour I notice is that they have a serious case of the zoomies after a whole day cooped up.
Always fun to watch Q&As - I've been watching your channel for many years, and it has been a joy to learn more about your anima ambassadors! Looking forward to meeting the new animal!
Also, if you ever want to collaborate with a bird channel, drop me a message 😁
Hiii Sophie! I didn't know you watched AWM
Also, why aren't you verified yet?
@@remasailesh4349 I do, have done for many years! And I believe you need 100k subscribers to be verified on TH-cam - maybe one day!
You should collab with Snake Discovery!
I was going to say they aren't very far away until I realized Missoula is on the west side of Montana and their facility is on the east side of Minnesota 😅
I totally agree with that
@@llamawalrushybrid sucks that you went all the way there and they were closed!
They should do something like a zoom video because of covid
Oh my heart, what a refreshingly lovely video, thanks for such a kind and thoughtful corner of the internet/TH-cam.
Hugs to all of you and I can't wait for the Meet n Greet with the newbie!
i can never get over the beauty and carisma of this woman, you and the work you do are amazing, jessie
The world is a better place because you guys are in it.
That was awesome! Thanks for bringing us along.
So nice to see a different format. Altho I'm not a fan of the loudness of the road noises, I do appreciate seeing you guys in action. Always a happy time when a video features Augusto. Maybe we can do a similar one, like, while prepping food for the animals, say? :)
I'm excited to meet the new animal! Maybe it's a new fox?
I love seeing your children enter-act with the animals.
Hooray, Augusto in a video! Always love to see him on camera! Also, when Jessi mentioned Serafina as one of the animals who likes her the most, I thought, “Yes, it’s so true, that gorgeous fox goes absolutely giddy when she sees Jessi!”
Thanks for answering our questions! Love from Italy ❤️
I used to be an avid watcher of your videos.. but life, child and things changed my youtubing patterns.
I am soo happy to see Augusto! and hear about Serafina!! My (now 5yo) daughter has a red fox stuffie.. and I suggested serafina as the name, she loves her. And we were going to get her a white fox too.. and I suggested Cas. :)
I love them puppies!
"Which animal gets in the most mischievous?"
"I can't answer that right now because they are standing behind me"
So nice to see the family! I've seen target training with lizards, but I'll have to look into it with snakes. This was a great video, thanks!
Augusto and Jessie give 40 hours a day enrichment?
I didn't know there was a Ling Ling enrichment training!
There's a question, which animal like to play the violin the most?! lol
Also I didn't know you had a Facebook page...
all this time I could have followed Animal Wonders there but didn't 😫😫
I absolutely love watching you guys! Thank you for the great content.
I really enjoyed this informal and longer format video. 🥰
Please do a collab with Snake Discovery! I think you would get along really well :)
edit: Since there were some questions about snakes, you could also check them out. There's a ton of educational content about snakes!
All of this makes my heart happy. Thank you for sharing this Q&A with us!
Also, Jessi, your video editing is remarkable. (or someone else who is doing it now)
"A hundred million hedgehogs"...I like your daughter's style there. XP
Aren't children just smart mischievous animals?
I giggled at the pic of a kid in the video thumbnail hover together with the title of new animal.
That was a really fun video! I’m not good at thinking of questions, but I love hearing other people’s!
@AnimalWondersMontana Not that you have much free time to spend watching TH-cam, I'm sure, but do you have any other favorite educational animal TH-cam Channels you would recommend? I've been watching a ton of Snake Discovery lately, and I'd love to know more channels that are doing fun work like this!
Same! The only reason I've unsubscribed from snake discovery is because they don't seem to ware masks especially when they did the enclosure enclosure build off
Thank you for making this video! I love you guys so much, and am so appreciative of your openness and honesty about your work!
Great video, as always...and thanks for answering my question! Can't wait to find out who joined the Animal Wonders family!
5:52 you didn't answer. So which animal(s) have been with you the longest? Currently and ever
You're right! Freckles the leopard gecko and Sandy the Kenya sand boa are still alive and doing great and they've been with us the longest.
Jacob's a reptile person, I can tell; every time y'all mentioned reptiles he lit up.
Hi. This is soo amazing I absolutely love what you do and just know you are makinga big difference in the world
Such a wonderful family :)
Any chance we could get a video on some of the recent “pandemic pets” -namely how many people are realizing that a small number of chickens or ducks can be kept without a full size farm. You covered chickens before but maybe a video about ducks, geese, or swans? And alternative to chickens, quail, partridge, and peacocks? I know you might not have any of these animals yourself but i think people are finding more healthy lifestyles shared with animals and learning about them could be very helpful, and not just dogs and cats need adoption. (I have found myself rather in love with ducks since all this began 😆)
Love the video!
I love your videos I watch them every day on epic keep making them I love the animals that you work with I watched you ever since last year and I love your videos keep working hard!
Great to see a video from my favorite state Montana. People who takes care of animals are always nice to follow. Greetings from Norway! PS: Jessi, do you have Norwegian forefathers? You look like you could be Norwegian and your name Knudsen is also Norwegian.
Great video! 😀 You said there aren’t any rehabilitation centers for deer and squirrels in Montana. Why not? Are they particularly demanding to take care of or are they just not prioritized over rarer or more “interesting” species?
You should do a collaboration with Snake discovery and that’s with Emily and Ed!
At 4:12 I thought “someone needs to train me to go to the doctor!” 😂
Wow so cool love the vids
"Breakfast of champions" LOL! That makes me wonder if your kids have any interest in these kind of background trips!
I have a question! I have a cockatiel and she doesn’t like being handled. The only human interaction she enjoys is being talked to. Is it possible that is just her personality? Thank you! Tell the animals I say hi ❤️ -Violet
Hello! I have a question,
How can you safely move a parakeet out of it’s cage in an open space without risking your parrot to fly off?
Thank you for all of your hard work!
Love your comments. Maybe you could make several videos of say 10 minutes each instead of long ones like this. I sent it to grandkids but I know they don’t have attention for 30 minutes, ha! 👏🙏🏻
Thanks Jessie for explaining. Sorry you don’t have much control as I imagined you might. Take care … if you need willow branches you’re welcome to go down to The Ranch anytime and collect all you want! We won’t be back until fall. 😁🙏🏻
This is cool
I watch all the ads since I found out you get $$ if they are watched. But you might consider screening them more (more interesting) or focused on animals. Plus, shorter than a minute might be watched more often rather than skipping. 👍
The creators don't control the ads that play on their videos... TH-cam curates them based on the general channel genre & whether or not you have selected to have customised ads. Creators like AWM have limited control over how many ads are played & when they play (such as opting for 2-3 ads to play in a row every hour instead of 1 every 20mins) but they don't have any say in who the advertisers are unfortunately.
I love you videos a lot and I love you Animals.
Haha wasn’t expecting to be the last question XD and it’s pronounced like the name Gary XD
_crikey, it's the nice ginger lady with the cute animals!_
You should do a collaboration with Snake discovery
Hey, Jessi. I was thinking of adopting a Parrotlet but while reading about them I read that they are very sensitive to respiratory issues. I have a tidy but incredibly dusty house and am wondering if regular dust would cause potential issues for a feathered friend or if it was just toxic airborne stuff. Figured you'd be the person to ask cause Google just keeps showing results for dust that birds might *create*. Don't worry, I would never adopt one if I wasn't sure it was a safe environment.
Get an air purifier and dust your house before bringing a bird home. I have five birds. They need clean air.
@@Talk2WandaVision Makes sense, just wanted to check. Thanks for the answer, I’ll get it professionally cleaned to make sure there’s no dust first!
@@weaselmaster98 well you’re always going to have “some” dust (that’s just part of life right?) but excessive amounts of dust is definitely problematic for birdies. I have to be vigilant myself as my place is wedged between a garden and the garage and it’s a dust magnet. I highly recommend a good air purifier and regular changing of the filters. I have an Alen air purifier at home and it helps a lot. It’s totally worth it to take these extra steps, birds are wonderful additions to your life (especially rescues) Go for it! 😁
Parrotlets are wonderful little birds, feisty and boisterous! As mentioned previously, you'll most likely just need a good air purifier. This will help keep you and your bird healthy. The most important part is to buy plenty of replacement filters so you're prepared and don't put off the necessary filter changes. A good air purifier for birds will run about $100-200 and filters can be expensive too. So be sure to factor that into your cost assessment to know if a parrotlet is a good choice for you and what you can provide.
@@animalwondersmontana thanks! I put aside some money cause I figured there’d be some costs I hadn’t heard about, I’ve now added ‘air purifier’ to the list. Thanks for all the videos.
I'm curios. I have a horrible question for you guys. My new puppy Shiba, who's doings so well and so well behaved and taken care of and so cute she is loved whatever I take her, looks a little like my cousins dog Django. It reminds me of the horribly sad story of how they got him. Obviously there's a good ending cause Django is a super happy and healthy dog now. So my step uncle was driving down the highway at highway speeds, and he saw someone in a beat up pick up throw a tied up sack kinda like a big pillow case out there window. He slowed down to avoid hitting it and noticed it was moving weird. He stopped, walked up to it, and the whining gave it away. He found two tiny little puppies in there. He adopted one, and his brother adopted the other pup. Thank goddess no serious injuries like broken bones or something. My question is, is this a common thing you guys see? I mean there have to be a million better options to get rid of unwanted puppies other than throwing them out of a speeding truck on the highway. The fact that they tied it shut makes me think they expected them or wanted them to die. That breaks my heart that people do that kind of thing. Do you see a lot of rescues from situations like that?
I'm so happy to hear that Shiba and Django are in loving families. Sadly, this kind of cruelty does happen more often than we'd like to think it does. That's why it's so important for animal rescues and shelters to have good solid funding from their communities so they can be there to help when people need a place to bring their unwanted pets. Some people think they'll be charged a fee to bring in unwanted pets, which is one reason they might choose to dump them like in your story. It's not okay and I think the best way to try and help fix the problem is to continue to educate, share resources, support rescues, and act with compassion for others.
Cool
I think the most mischievous animal is Ringo the racoon
Zeema sounds a bit like a squeaky wheel in need of a greasing towards the end of the video. Would I be wrong in assuming that was a "I want" sound (I'm guessing attention, since there were people and they were not focused on her beauteous person right that second)?
Sometimes the squawking is just a sun rising and setting thing, sometimes she does it when we haven't delivered her breakfast quickly enough, sometimes she does it when lots of commotion is going on and it's like she's joining in on the hubbub. In this case, I'm pretty sure she was prompted to join in with her calls because we had all coming together and started making noise together after her space was so quiet from everyone being gone for half the day.
Hi my name is Lorelei, i like cas the arctic fox because i used to have a pet dog that was white with brown spots and cas when he sadly passed away I remembered my dog buddy beu passed away too:(
Hi Jessie I was wondering could you make a video on rat care because I really want a couple
Ello, nice vid
Would you ever consider putting all the resources you reference to ppl on a website page just to maybe save yourselves some work?
Good thought! I always check with my contacts before referring someone to them, though. I want to make sure they have room so I'm not sending the person to someone who will also just send them on.
Mrs.Jessi I want a Mink but are they good pets?
Did you know your on epic books? It’s technically an app full of books you can read and videos
If you ever do any other q and as I would love you to answer my question what your fav color
I'd be interested to see you do a collab with the TH-cam channel Toucan TV. Also with Snake Discovery.
What type of animal gets the most attention and I want to see more videos of Gaia and Zima
I wonder if Huckleberry rejected Piya because he was jealous that she could take Jessi's attention away from him. Or is that anthropomorphizing too much?
I'd say that's too far down the path of using human emotions to explain an animal's behavior, so yes, anthropomorphizing. But we can assess his behavior more in depth to try and guess why he reacted the way he did. Some animals will become possessive of territory, food, toys, best perches, mates and even favorite human keepers. We can break down his observable behavior and see if it holds up to being possessive of me (Jessi) as he would be of a fav human/mate. So, Huckleberry doesn't become possessive of me when I bring another human close. He also has a great relationship with Taylor, his other main human caretaker. If he viewed either of us as a mate, he'd likely be possessive of us against other humans. He does become possessive of food, though. It is possible that he would view another beaver differently than humans, however, Piya was so young when we tried to introduce them that it's unlikely she was viewed as potential competition against him for a mate situation. Beavers don't form friendships with other beavers outside their family, they form monogamous bonds with their mate. So the idea that Piya would be competition for attention doesn't ring true for the species' natural behavior. My best guess would be that Huckleberry was nervous around Piya because she was unfamiliar, which put him on edge. So, we tried rewarding him with treats for coming closer to her. Then, once he was coming closer to her, we tried distracting him with freely accessible yummy branches to see if he would practice calmly eating while in her presence. Then I observed a moment of behavior that showed he had became possessive of the food source (branches) and reacted negatively toward her. I'm thinking this one food possessive reaction then led to a negative reaction each time he saw her. Beavers are interesting animals because it seems like once they've tried something or reacted to something in a certain way once, it seems like that's how they'll react from here on out. Using anthropomorphism, we'd simply call that "stubborn" in a human. For beavers, I'd like to say that that reactive behavior suits them well for survival in the wild. For example, if they are scared by an animal once, they'll react negatively every time they encounter that animal in the future and then teach their family to also be wary of that kind of animal. Huckleberry is just doing the best he can for a disabled beaver living under human care, and we're just doing the best we can to try and give him a good life. Thanks for asking and thinking about his behavior! Animals are super fascinating and thinking more about their reactions and the how and why of their behaviors and communication is something I love to do.
@@animalwondersmontana Thanks, Jessi! I admire your dedication to animals, and I appreciate the knowledge you've accumulated through experience. In fact, I have applied some of it in social work with the most complicated animal, humans. It can be difficult to understand the behavior of a young person who has become trapped in an unhealthy situation, and sometimes it's helpful to think in terms of natural instincts that have been activated -- kind of the flip side of anthropomorphizing. For example, people can learn to react with fear to a particular stimuli from a negative association, and sometimes a young person will express that fear in self-destructive ways when they feel they have no other recourse or other means to control their environment. Your creativity in finding solutions for the animals in your care inspires me!
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Hi animal wonders my name is Anya I am 7 I love your shoow
do you still sell the kizmit panting?
Jessi-have you done any modelling work?
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1:08 I’m sorry but I didn’t really understand what the criteria for taking in an animal has to to with being chosen to be an ambassado for their species. I thought you would talk more about temperament, sleeping habits, possible allergies to the people and/or animals, whether having quills, talons, fangs, claws, poison/venom can affect the likelihood of being brought out to presentations.
This video goes more in depth about how we choose which animals to take in, explaination starts at about 1:35, th-cam.com/video/HkfFd-Ln0Gw/w-d-xo.html I hope that helps!
@@animalwondersmontana Thanks for responding but I was more curious about how it’s decided that some animals are chosen to do presentations and others aren’t. I know not all the animals at Animal Wonders end up making the presentations rounds and you can’t take all of them either. How do you decide which of the guinea pig herd to show or do they all come along for the ride? Are there any individual animals that turn out not to do well for as traveling ambassadors but they’re better at doing video presentations or they’re are a great companion to one that is?
@@MissLilyputt Oh, gottcha. Well, every animal and every situation is different, so it's not an easy questions to answer unless I go very general. We assess the animal's behavior and use positive reinforcement to work toward that animal accepting, enjoying, and choosing to attend presentations with us.
For animals like the guinea pigs, we try to rotate through the ones that tolerate interactions with us. Some just do not like being picked up, but they'll happily eat treats from anyone who offers. For them we'll put a crate down and let them run in on their own, then come out on their own at the presentation where volunteers will offer them treats. Others prefer to be held on arms close to a body, so that's how we hold them at presentations.
For other animals, like our turacos for example, we're still in training with them for public presentations but both are good with virtual programs. Sunny the red crested turaco is a pro at virtual and is very close to attending her first local in-person presentation. Sprite will probably never be fully on board with in-person presentations, but we're still working with her to be more tolerant of interactions with her human keepers so we can better care for her needs, like health exams and training for enrichment.
Out of all of the animals we have, only 6 animals don't currently do in-person programs and 3 are getting closer to the goal of their first show every day. For those that are completely comfortable traveling in a crate and hanging out at other locations for public presentations, we choose to only take 5-7 animals for each outing. Choosing who goes is based on: the lesson we're focused on and who would best represent the topics, if it's a repeat visit to a group then who hasn't seen that audience at a previous visit, who isn't already schedule for a presentation that week, who would do well in the specific location we're traveling to, who would do well with the type of audience we'll be teaching, and which human will be the educator for that program.
I hope that answers your question better :)
@@animalwondersmontana Wow that'd get complicated - it's like each animal would need their own personal assistant/celebrity agent to manage their bookings diary! 😎
Incredible how you do all this, AND find the time to be Biden’s press secretary 😉
will you still be here? after 7 years
caring for animals
I am more amazed over you guys have each a diffirent hair colors (i would think DNA wouldn permit that) hahaha ... small minds easy entertained i guess :P
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do you have your kid with you?
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your kids are so cute. Hope your other son is doing well too
You take care of all these animals AND have children? How high are your energy levels?