What a GREAT Spring Break Week in Review!

We have been super, super busy this Spring Break week!  Monday and Tuesday’s weather wasn’t the best, but we still had a lot of fabulous guests visiting the animals.  On Wednesday and Thursday the weather was great—and so were all the wonderful people.  As you can imagine, Spring Break is a very important fundraising event for us and we were certainly blessed this week.  It looks like today and Saturday’s weather will be perfect for visiting the animals, so if you can, come out and say "hello" to our wild ones! 



If you look carefully,
 you can see Freddy's claws!

Here’s a recap of this week's blog postings!  Monday’s blog posting focused on what really happens to wild exotic cats when they are declawed.  Ouch!

On Tuesday, we introduced you to our smallest rescue!  This little wild one was found on our property, slightly injured, but possessing the strong desire to live. 

Who am I?

“Who am I?” featured a very special lioness!  This Wednesday posting apparently stumped most of our readers.  There was one anonymous submission that listed the identity of the featured wild cat, answered question #1 and the bonus question correctly, but got stumped on question #2.  This was a trick question, requiring the reader to search past blog postings for the correct answer!  Couldn’t make the “Who Am I” too easy if we’re giving out a prize, right?!  So if the anonymous submitter would like to take a stab at the question again, this time including name and address with the submission, I have a feeling we’ll have a winner!

Yesterday’s posting was about our upcoming Easter celebration.  We have been blessed with many great "assistant Easter bunnies” this year!  We are very close to having enough toys for all the animals—yea!!  Thank you very, very much “bunnies” for your thoughtful gifts this year.  We cannot wait to show everyone how much our animals appreciate the new toys you have sent them—so stay tuned next month for lots of pictures and videos of the toys in action!

A new popular item added to the on-line
gift shop--check out the great stuff!

Several people took advantage of the 30% discount on all our products found in our on-line gift shop!  The discount is good until Friday night, 11:59 CST.  If you haven't checked out the on-line gift shop in a while, then you are missing out on some very cool new items!  You can get flip flops with the cats on them, just in time for the warmer weather!  Plus hats, tank tops, tote bags, gym bags, and more! 

In order to take advantage of the 30% discount, this is what you’ll need to do:

1. Find the item on our store page that you would like to purchase at http://www.cafepress.com/insyncexotics.

2. Write down or select/copy the product number (ex: Product Number: 030-627415283).

3. Go to www.cafepress.com and enter the product number minus our store id (030) in the search line at the top of the web page (ex: 627415283).

4. You should see your desired product and you are now ready to order or order or continue shopping using the same steps above.

Don't forget to enter the coupon code MADNESS at checkout to receive the 30% discount. In-Sync Exotics will receive 10% of the total sales after the discount!! 

If you have any problems with your on-line order or you simply want to place your order by telephone, you can call Cafepress' friendly customer service representatives at 1-877-809-1659.  Just be sure to have the product number(s) handy when you call.

We hope you enjoyed this week's blog postings and will join us again for more updates on our exotic wild animals on Monday!  Don't forget, we are open Friday, Saturday and Sunday--so come out and say "hello" to our residents and staff! 

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Easter Excitement!

We are very excited about our upcoming Easter celebration!  Thanks to some of our "assistant Easter bunnies," we have already received some Easter gifts for our animals.  We cannot wait to distribute the balls, bones, barrels, "eggs", and Kong toy to them--the looks on our animals' faces when they see their new toys will be priceless.  So if you are planning on attending the Easter celebration event, be sure to bring your camera in order to capture those special moments!  Huge lion "hugs" to our "bunnies" who have sent our animals gifts so far!

Now, it's not too late to become a "bunny!"  We still have a lot of animals that will not receive a new toy this Easter without your help. 

A few of our animals would like to share with you their special wish gift for Easter:

 

10" teaser ball (with holes):  Freddie (cougar) likes to bat these around his area!

10" Balls (no holes): We have seen Jett (yellow-spotted leopard) knocking one of these balls around, but of course as soon as he notices we're watching him, he stops and acts like he is WAY too dignified for such nonsense!

 24" rawhide bones:  Aasha and Smuggler (tigers) LOVE rawhide!  They chase each other around, trying to decide who gets which bone, and then Aasha usually takes hers right into the tub, to get it nice and soggy!  Tigers love rawhide bones! 

Obsession spray:  Amol (tiger) goes crazy when he smells Obsession and Abrams (tiger) also goes ballistic for it!  This is our most popular enrichment scent as most of our big cats enjoy the Obsession scent.

5x5x5 small colorful tuff balls:  Trooper (lynx) LOVES chasing balls around!  Tobias (lynx) would enjoy them too, mainly because he would enjoy chasing Trooper while Trooper is chasing the ball!

Jolly Egg Balls:  Kshama (tiger) likes chasing these around and Sultan likes to play with them in his tub!  Who knew they could float!  This is a very popular item with all our big cats.

14" Jolly Balls:  Aurora (lioness) LOVES these!  She will pick them up with her front paws and throw them, and then chase them all over the playground, like she's playing soccer!

Barrels:  Kiro and Tacoma (tigers) in particular LOVE new barrels!  They get incredibly excited when they see one coming, and love to drag them into their dens!  And we love dragging them out of the den when they are not looking [wink wink]!

Extreme Kong toys:  Cherokee (cougar) likes to bat these around!

Needless to say, all of our animals would love a new toy, including our horse, Twiggy!  But so far, no one has gifted anything to her.  Twiggy loves Stall Snack Holder with apple and molasses.  So if you feel inclined to give an older horse some joy, the Stall Snack would be the perfect gift for her!

Our "bunnies" can find these wonderful animal toys on our Amazon Wish List found HERE.  It takes about 5-10 days to ship the items, so don't delay--ship today!  We will mark the gifts with your name, so you can see your gifts in play!

A copy of our Easter celebration flier can be found HERE.  Please share this event with your family, friends, and co-workers!  Thank you!

Later:

We have some great news! Our In-Sync Exotics' products are still on sale! If you would like to purchase great items from our store at 30% off (slightly lower than yesterday, but still a great deal), here is what you will need to do:

 

1. Find the item on our store page that you would like to purchase at http://www.cafepress.com/insyncexotics.

2. Write down or select/copy the product number (ex: Product Number: 030-627415283 ).

3. Go to www.cafepress.com and enter the product number minus our store id (030) in the search line at the top of the web page (ex: 627415283).

4. You should see your desired product and you are now ready to order or order or continue shopping using the same steps above.

5. Don't forget to enter the coupon code MADNESS at checkout to receive the 30% discount. In-Sync Exotics will receive 10% of the total sales after the discount!!

 

So now is a great time to take advantage of this discount!! This is for a limited time only -- discount ends at March 16, 2012 at 11:59 PST!

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Who Am I?

It's been a while since we've posted a Who Am I contest!  So, let's welcome this beautiful lioness to the animal wall (in this case bus stop) of fame! 

First person to identify and answer two questions about this exotic wild one wins a small prize and bragging rights. Simply send your response via the comment box and if you are the first person to respond and answer the questions correctly, you win!  Please do not forget to include your name and mailing address so we can send you a prize, just in case you should win the challenge!

So, are you ready to figure out "Who Am I?"

Now that you've had some time to ponder upon the identification of this beautiful girl (not the little Tabby cat!), let's get to the questions:

I am ________.

Question 1:  Before I arrived at In-Sync Exotics, I used to live at  __________________ and was I re-homed because ______________________.

Question 2:  Who was my last cage mate and why were we separated?

Bonus question!  What are this lioness' favorite toys on the playground that she would love to receive during the In-Sync Exotics' Easter celebration?

Answers to these questions can be found on Our Residents page and our past blog pages!

Okay, now let's give our faithful blog readers a chance of winning today's contest--employees and long time volunteers are not eligible for the prize since you see this exotic wild one all the time...sorry!!  

And remember, this beautiful cat, along with many more, are waiting to be adopted!  For adoption information, please visit our adoption web page HERE.

Stay tuned for more In-Sync Exotics news, and in the meantime, we hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Later in the morning:

We have some great news! Our In-Sync Exotics' products are on sale! If you would like to purchase great items from our store at 31.4% off, here is what you will need to do:

 

1. Find the item on our store page that you would like to purchase at http://www.cafepress.com/insyncexotics.

 

2. Write down or select/copy the product number (ex: Product Number: 030-627415283 ).

 

3. Go to www.cafepress.com and enter the product number minus our store id (030) in the search line at the top of the web page (ex: 627415283).

 

4. You should see your desired product and you are now ready to order or order or continue shopping using the same steps above.

 

5. Don't forget to enter the coupon code PIDAY314 at checkout to receive the 31.4% discount. In-Sync Exotics will receive 10% of the total sales after the discount!!

 

So now is a great time to take advantage of this discount!! This is for a limited time only -- discount ends at 11:59 PST today!

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