These ANIMALS Were DOOMED…Until We SAVED Them!

What is up everyone and welcome back to my channel. Today we are going around my entire zoo and checking up on some of the rescued animals that call my jungle home. From my blind clouded leopard nebula, to Cheech and Chong, the rescued servals that were found living in an apartment, and of course the tortoises that were left to die at an abandoned house. We're going to be opening our Amazon wish list, checking up on my sick Galapagos tortoise, and even feeding my red ruffed lemurs Ruby and Remy. Come along on today's crazy adventure and find out how our rescued animals are doing. We have got a bunch of fan mail. We got some stuff from the Royal Mail, something from Jessica and Gemma. This one doesn't have a name. We've got something from Giovanna and we got something from Mason. So thank you guys so much for sending us fan mail. We'll be opening that up in the next video. But right here we got some Amazon wish list. I don't know what we got here, but we opened it up and I want to say thank you so much to Norman Spangler for sending us these packages. Norman might be from Facebook, but nonetheless, thank you, Norman. And if you guys want to support the zoo and all of the animals, you guys can actually purchase from our Amazon wish list. If you guys can't come and visit, people are always asking me, how can we help? How can we donate? Well, the best way right now that you guys can help me out is by buying some of the essentials that we need here on an everyday basis. So we have no idea what's in here. Oh, I know what this is. Look at this. This is actually so sick. We're going to get to do this right now. We have got some parrot toys that Norman sent us that are going to go to our Amazon parrots. This stuff really helps us out. The birds love it. The birds are thankful. Let's see this thing. Look at that. We got one toy right here and now that we opened them, let's go hang them. Okay, so we made it over to the parrots right now and we're cleaning out their old enrichment. So a big part of our animals lives is enrichment. That's constantly changing. And one of the birds' favorite toys happens to be this cardboard box that they shredded up. We've also got coconuts. You can see what the parrots do. They actually hollow the coconuts and they eat the meat and the water from the inside. So that is our old enrichment and right now we're actually going to get in here and we're going to put our new enrichment in. You guys can see these are not the friendliest Amazons. They're not nearly as friendly as our other ones. These are the ones that we actually got from our vet, Dr. Harris. So what we're going to do is we're actually going to hang this toy right above us right now right here. These parrots should love it. Let's get out. It's really hard to operate and get inside of these enclosures, but right here we've got a new toy for the parrots. So next up we're headed over to Pirate, the Amazon parrot. Now this is going to be a little bit tricky because Pirate will actually chase you down and try to attack you and he just so happens to be right where we're going. So we got some of Pirate's enrichment. We got some old palm fronds. We gave him some longans. But look, you put your finger up, he will try to bite you. Mr. Pirate, how are you doing? Hey, Mr. Pirate, what are you doing? We're not going out right now. Oh my, see? Here, Pirate. Step up. Hey, Pirate. We got Pirate out. Hello. How are we doing? 40 years old. What's up, buddy? Hello. Don't attack my hand, please. Yeah. Hi. Yes. How are you? Yes. Ah. That was mean. Hey. Hello. Yeah. Say hello to the camera. Say hi. Ah. Angry. Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah. Hi. Yes. Hi. All right. So maybe we'll just kind of hold Pirate on our arm. We'll, like, multitask here. Actually, I know exactly what we're going to do. We're going to go over here. We actually have a little perch installed right here on the tree. So while we actually hang his toy up, we're going to hang Pirate here. What's up, buddy? Look, you can come by your mates and other friends. Look. Get right up there. We actually installed a little perch. All right, Pirate. You wait there. Yes. Hi. I know. Hello. How are you doing, sir? Pirate, wait there. I know. You're very angry. We're going to let Pirate wait here, and we're going to go hang his toy. Get all the old stuff out. This stuff in South Florida just dries out so fast. You put it in here, and in literally, like, four days, it gets all dry and gross. Again, we're going to do the same thing. We're just going to kind of hang this right up top here. We want to make it challenging for Pirate to shred. So we've got to get in just like that. We're going to come here just like that. We have hung a new toy for Pirate the Parrot. Pirate, you ready to come up? Thank you very much. That's the cool thing about Pirate is he's actually really trained to go up on the stick, which a lot of the birds are scared of the stick, but Pirate absolutely loves it. All right, Pirate. Let's go get your new toys. All right. Let's go, buddy. You ready? Let's go, Mr. Pirate. Oh. Did he try to attack me? Yeah. Funny. Yeah. Hilarious. That is funny. All right. Come on, buddy. Let's go. All right. New enrichment for Pirate. Three, two, one. Yeah. He doesn't care about it. He's a blind guy. Ah, yes. Pirate would rather bite us right now than play with his new toy. So thank you so much to Norman for our Amazon wishlist. And again, guys, we have a ton of stuff linked down below, hairnets, other toys for the animals. So if you guys want to see us unbox Amazon wishlist and give it to our animals, well, that's going to be linked right down below. And next up, we're going into our Galapagos tortoises because we have got another injection that we're going to be giving our tortoise. Everyone's been so concerned about her asking, what is going on? How is she doing? Well, you guys are going to see right now, we're in the peak heat of the day, and I'm actually so glad that now that she's been getting her medication, she's actually been a little more active, a little more mobile, and she's actually outside of her house right now basking in the sun, which is actually a really great sign. So let's get in there. Let's give her her injection. So after speaking with a lot of the tortoise experts, we believe that her leg problem is a secondary infection from the edema or the heart condition that these Galapagos tortoises suffer from. This is a disease that there's been plenty of studies going on for probably the past seven years, taking blood samples of the animals that have this issue, the swelling of the neck, the goiter, but they've not been able to get to the bottom of it. So when speaking to these tortoise experts, they actually recommended that we start this gentle giant on diuretics and medication that's going to help with the circulatory system of the heart, which is going to help reduce the swelling on the neck. We've actually got another tortoise walking over that we're watching for a friend of ours that unfortunately has this as well. So this is just a genetic disease that has taken the lives of a lot of these animals. We know over at Camp Kenan, he lost one of his tortoises, even Blake from Blake's Exotic, they all lost their tortoises to this edema. So we're hoping that we can get this girl on some diuretics. We're definitely going to have to do it with this guy. Zoom in on his neck right there. Take a look at that neck. If you look at that big fat sack, that is a clinical sign of the heart condition that these tortoises are suffering from. But again, this is out of our control. This is something that just pops up in this species. So right now we're going to come over here to her leg. We're going to spray a little bit of alcohol on it in order to do this intramuscular injection. So each time we actually switch legs, we're going to hold the leg. We're going to go right in here, just like that into the muscle. I'm sorry, girl. Nice. And slow. Just like that. Okay. I'm sorry, girl. A little bit came out, but that's okay. We always add just a pinch extra in case any of it spills out. So she's doing okay. I'm so sorry we had to do that, girl. So she's getting this injection right now every 72 hours to help combat the bone infection. But the real problem here is the heart condition that's going on. So we're going to head out of here right now. We're going to go dispose of this properly. And I'll keep you guys updated on this tortoise. We're going to be doing everything that we can. We've got Delano here helping us out again today. And yeah, guys, we're going to order all the meds with our vet and get started on this treatment. And next up today, we're going to be feeding Ruby and Remy our red ruff lemurs. We've got their special diet. We've got special monkey biscuits. We've got fruits, vegetables, all the stuff we need to keep these lemurs happy and healthy. And we've actually introduced Ruby and Remy into the same enclosure. So they're now living together. Look at the little baby. That little baby that was in the house before is now living out here with the rest of the lemurs. Come over here. Let's go to our little bamboo forest right now and check them out. What's up, guys? Are you guys ready to eat? Look at these two. They're actually the best of friends. I'm so happy that their introduction went so well. It's actually the smoothest primate introduction I've ever done. They just loved each other from the beginning. Ruby has wanted a friend and we're so happy that we could give it to her. And these guys are smelling all their food. Look at them. They're so hungry. Look at him. He's reaching out. So let's get in there and let's go feed them. Oh, my goodness. We've got some hungry monkeys. Let's open up. All right. We got one. We got two. We're being swarmed by the lemurs. Let's go inside of their enclosure. These are my favorite lemurs in the entire world. Rue and Rufus, I'm sorry. I love my black and white lemur kits, but honestly, the reds, they've stolen my heart. They're just the sweetest. They're the absolute coolest. They're the best behaved lemurs in the entire world. Look at this little guy. This is so much fun getting to hang out with these lemurs. And when you guys come on tour, you guys will get to meet Ruby and Remy. You'll get to feed them and hang out with them just like this. So we have an absolute blast. Guys, if you've been hesitating to come, do not hesitate. Come and visit us. Meet our crazy lemurs. And look at them eat. This is my favorite thing. We've got the crazy lemur ESMR. Oh, thank you very much. This is what my life is like every single day. I wouldn't want it any other way. Get in there on his face. Like, point in on this crazy lemur. He is so nice. And now we've got Ruby on dad. These lemurs love to jump. Look, if we put her up here. Oh, she wants some food. Okay, look. Come up here. There you go, girl. Watch. She'll come and jump right here. She landed right on my face, but we're used to it at this point. All right, crazy lemur. So when we're done feeding them on our shoulders, we actually move their food bowl right over here to the corner. So we like to do it up on the platform so they don't knock the bowl over and flip it. And these guys are just going to kind of clear this bowl out. We've got bananas, apples, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, cucumber, all the stuff that these lemurs love. So next up, we are heading in with our special needs clouded leopard, Nebula. So this is actually our blind clouded leopard. For those of you guys that have been following the channel, you guys definitely know Nebula. So a couple of months after Nebula came into our care, she started getting cloudy eyes. So with vet care and a lot of tests, we have determined that the cells regulating fluid in her cornea have died off. I know I've told my subscribers this many times. You guys know her story. But for anyone that's new here, I just wanted to explain Nebula's story. So Nebula also happens to be a clouded leopard, which is one of the most rare and endangered cats in the world. Hi there, pretty girl. Here, come. Come over here. Do you want to jump on my back, pretty girl? She happens to be one of the most rare and endangered cats in the world. There's only about 10,000 of these guys left in the wild. They're the closest relative to the saber-toothed tiger. If you look at her crazy teeth, she's actually trying to swat our mic right now. Nebula, you're being a playful girl. Look at those insane teeth. Oh my gosh. It's literally the most insane teeth I've ever seen on a cat. And Ollie is actually even bigger, which is maybe her potential partner, playmate. Once we move Noir, she's going to be moving from this enclosure over there to the back to our new enclosures. But Nebula is doing well. We're still giving her lots of TLC, her eye medication and eye drops twice a day. She's actually kind of using claws right now. She's trying to be a little too playful. Except her claws are literally like fishing hooks, so I don't know if we want Nebula jumping on our back. Come over here. Maybe that's not a good idea, but it's so tempting to let this crazy leopard climb right up on us. Nebula, how are you doing, girl? Oh, she's angry. Nebs, be nice. Hey, be nice. Ah! Okay, we're out of here. Bye, Nebula. So right now we're heading in with our rescued African servals, Cheech and Chong. So if you guys have been here on the channel, you guys know their story. So the servals that you see right over here, at one point were actually living illegally in downtown Miami as kittens. They were sold on Craigslist as Savannah cats. I'm sorry, Mr. Chong, man. You were relaxing and you said, I don't want to talk to anyone today. So this is Chong, and before Chong even came to us, Chong actually had broken his legs. And the reason he broke his legs is because he was given the wrong diet. He was only being fed boneless chicken, which you can feed them boneless chicken, but you need special big cat vitamins, calcium, probiotics, so the cats can get the taurine and amino acids. And his owner unknowingly caused him to break his legs. So after they took him to the vet, we were reached out through Fish and Wildlife's Amnesty Program and through social media if we would take these boys in. So we took them in at 14 weeks old. Look at him. He's just so cool right now. We took them in, and with a lot of TLC, you would never even know that anything happened. We actually documented this whole journey. They were living in crates for the first two months when they arrived to us, so they actually wouldn't further hurt their legs. And if you come right over here, you can see Mr. Cheeto, man. So this is Cheech. How you doing, boy? Cheech actually likes to hang out right here. Look, he's going to start rubbing on me. He's actually one of the tamest, nicest servals you're ever going to meet. Look at him lick on me. He's just so sweet. He's just the best boy in the whole entire world. He's such a good guy. So we've had these guys since 2021, and now years later, like I was saying, with all that TLC, the good diets, spending a lot of time with them, you would never even know anything was wrong with them. In their older age, they might have arthritis from their weak bones when they were younger, but only time will tell. That's why we're giving them the best care in the whole wide world. Let's look at those teeth. Wow, you got some nice looking teeth there, buddy. But right now, in the peak heat of the day, these servals are just going to sit here and they're going to hang out. So we're going to head out of the servals right now. We're going to continue to let these guys enjoy their afternoon nap, and now we're going to head over to the tortoises that we rescued from the abandoned house. Everyone's been asking how they're doing, what happened with them, and they want some updates. Well, we're going to go do that. So now the long awaited part of our video, we are checking up on the rescue tortoises. So they're pretty much done with their quarantine period. They've been in quarantine for quite some time, but we really wanted to quarantine because of just how bad these tortoises were kept. We didn't want to spread them to any other part of the property. So today we are giving them a LS tortoise diet. So this is a low starch tortoise diet for these grassland tortoises. We've also covered it in calcium and we're going to be feeding our tortoises. So this is our big Burmese star tortoise female. We're just going to put a little bit of that Missouri there, and we're also going to be adding some Vaseline to their shell because they do have some fungus. We haven't treated the fungus. What we've got here is we've got some white shell fungus, which is just due to high humidity here in South Florida. It's not uncommon for these tortoises to have them. The bottom of our shell looks pretty good, although we'll probably put a little bit of the Vaseline on there. So to do that, we're just going to take a little bit of the Vaseline and we're going to put it right on the white spot. And basically what that's going to do is that's going to suffocate the fungus and in about a day or so it's going to be completely gone. This fungus needs air to actually grow in moisture. So we're cutting off the moisture, we're cutting off the air with this oily substance. Now a lot of people will prescribe chlorhexidine scrubs and betadine scrubs and refer to this as shell rot. But this is just a simple fungus that Vaseline from the store, this is like $2 will actually take care of this fungus cheaper and more effective than betadine and chlorhexidine. She's an absolute beast. Hopefully soon she'll be able to go with our males. And now that we treated her, we're going to go check out our others. So right now we made it over to our other three star tortoises and we're going to take some of this Missouri diet. We're just going to put it right here for them. These guys are going to eat more than the other one because we got three of them in here. So this is a slightly different species. This is actually a Sri Lankan star tortoises from Sri Lanka. So this is our male. And when we got him, he was super underweight. Now he has a good weight. The last time we weighed him, I think he's about seven pounds, but this is our biggest female of the group. She's got a little bit of mud on her, but the fungus is pretty much non-existent on her. If we look at the bottom, she's actually pretty clean, pretty cool tortoise right here. This thing is an absolute beast. We actually measured her and she's only like two inches off of the world record star tortoise. Look at her. She's so sick. So these tortoises are just munching away at the Missouri. We love to see it. We love to see that they're doing well. And soon enough, we're going to be expanding our tortoise area in the back. We're going to be moving the Galapagos tortoises. We're actually going to be making their area bigger and then we're going to be moving these stars. So same thing with these guys. We're going to leave them a little pile right here, the Missouri, just like that. That's exactly what we want to do. And these guys definitely have got some fungus. So we're going to treat probably this one first. This one looks like it's got it the worst. So you can see this is also the most pyramided tortoise. So we're not sure their diet in the past, but typically the pyramiding is from lack of humidity and lack of proper diet. Although the star tortoises tend to have a little more pyramiding than other species. So right here, if we don't take care of the fungus, it's going to continue to eat and erode away at the shell. You can kind of see that right there. We don't want to pick at it too much. So the best thing that we can do is stop the growth of the fungus and that's exactly what we're going to do. All right. So we're going to get that Vaseline and work it all over this white spot. Pretty much it's right here on the growth lines of the scoot. So if this fungus were to penetrate further in, it could actually peel the scoot up to where we'd have to remove entire sections of scoots on the underside. I've seen that happen in some tortoises. So we're going to do our best to make sure that that does not happen. All right, we're going to get this girl back inside of the pen with the others. We're going to continue to do the treatment and then we're going to move to our next tortoises. So right here, it's actually eroding a lot at the scoots. We're going to get a nice thick layer of that Vaseline. We really want to work it into any crevices. And as this Vaseline heats up, it's actually going to turn from this thick paste into more viscous oily material, which will be able to penetrate all the little cracks and crevices that we're going to miss. What's up, buddy? So we got our two cherry head tortoises here and they are active and they are waiting for some food. Now. Thankfully, at least I think we have minimal fungus, so we're not even going to bother these guys today. We're just going to let them be. We're going to dump their Missouri right here. Now, typically we give them the regular Missouri diet, but some high fiber will not hurt them at all. So these are actually big females. So we're going to be setting up a new colony of Brazilian cherry heads. So hopefully we can start doing locality based breeding. We have three males, so I'll have three males to these two females. They're absolute beasts. I mean, look at these things get in on the head. Look at that beautiful cherry. This is your classic Brazilian cherry head look. Let me kind of twist her this way. Absolutely stunning tortoise. She's a little bit dirty in the mud right now, but these tortoises are from the tropical rainforest, so they love being wet and they definitely love the mud. Oh my gosh. Look at this. So this is exactly what I was talking about and why you want to take care of the fungus. Do you guys see this white underneath the shell? This is fungus that has penetrated the underside of the shell. Look at that right there. And right here, the scoot has actually peeled up and this is the bone and the bone has just flaked away and there's fungus on the underside. Now this is an old injury, so it's not fresh, but this is exactly why we want to take care of that fungus. The fungus is eroding the shell from the inside out. The same thing is actually happening here. So you can see that that white on the underside is actually fungus that has penetrated in. Now since we've received these guys and they've been kept very dry, it has not progressed any further. But the good thing about these incredible reptiles is how resilient they are. Despite the terrible situation these guys were put in, they are determined to survive and we're determined to give them the best possible care. So there's no fungus on the bottom side. These are actually perfect. We have no scoot damage going on. So these are incredible tortoises. They've got so much weight on them. They're so friendly. And look at those plump eyes. We know they're nice and hydrated. So we're so happy that we were able to help these guys out. And all that, my friends, is going to end today's episode. I hope all of you guys did enjoy watching today's video. So checking up on the rescued animals right now. The rain is starting. Theo and Alfie don't like the rain, so we're going to head inside and get these little monkeys in for their afternoon nap. So if you guys enjoyed today's video, please make sure to give this video a thumbs-up. Comment down below. What was your favorite part of today's video? And if you guys are not yet subscribed yet to me, and you want to see more monkeys, and you want to see more crazy creatures, well all you guys have to do is go right now and subscribe below.