Huckleberry and Cowboy
By Andrew (06/10/13 19:35:04)
Interspecies Collaboration Week 6
For this assignment I want to talk about my relationship with two specific animals; Huckleberry the Black Bear and Cowboy the Great Horned Owl. Cowboy is my mom’s favorite animal at the animal park. Cowboy came to the Moonridge animal park with a severely broken wing, which was so bad that it had to be amputated. He then became a permanent resident at the park because of his inability to fly out in the wild. My mom interacts with him at least an hour per day whether it’s taking him on her rounds around the park to see the other animals or to feed him in his enclosure while trying to talk to him. When I first met Cowboy, I was shocked by how big and scary he looked. Even with one wing I felt he was going to fly and bite my nose off. I spent an entire summer in Big Bear and visited Cowboy nearly every day he was there. I even got the chance to feed him and was soon not scared at all, but fascinated by him. I wondered how he felt with his situation. He was a bird without the main physical aspects about birds. I then started going to the zoo to draw portraits of Cowboy. Him with one wing stretched out. I soon adapted these drawings into a drawing of a tattoo. It shows the mixture of my Mexican heritage with the frighteningly beautiful first interaction I had with him. The tattoo is how I felt at first and the action of me getting it put on my body shows the love I grew for this animal over a short time.
Huckleberry was hit by a car when he was just a cub and his injuries were so bad that he had to get his leg amputated. Over time he has adapted to being a three legged animal and appears to be happy where he is although I’m sure he would love to be out in the wild running around with other bears on all fours. Here is a video of Huckleberry on his own three legs.
Huckleberry the Three Legged Bear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF7eD--dg7w
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By Andrew (06/10/13 19:35:04)
Interspecies Collaboration Week 6
For this assignment I want to talk about my relationship with two specific animals; Huckleberry the Black Bear and Cowboy the Great Horned Owl. Cowboy is my mom’s favorite animal at the animal park. Cowboy came to the Moonridge animal park with a severely broken wing, which was so bad that it had to be amputated. He then became a permanent resident at the park because of his inability to fly out in the wild. My mom interacts with him at least an hour per day whether it’s taking him on her rounds around the park to see the other animals or to feed him in his enclosure while trying to talk to him. When I first met Cowboy, I was shocked by how big and scary he looked. Even with one wing I felt he was going to fly and bite my nose off. I spent an entire summer in Big Bear and visited Cowboy nearly every day he was there. I even got the chance to feed him and was soon not scared at all, but fascinated by him. I wondered how he felt with his situation. He was a bird without the main physical aspects about birds. I then started going to the zoo to draw portraits of Cowboy. Him with one wing stretched out. I soon adapted these drawings into a drawing of a tattoo. It shows the mixture of my Mexican heritage with the frighteningly beautiful first interaction I had with him. The tattoo is how I felt at first and the action of me getting it put on my body shows the love I grew for this animal over a short time.
Huckleberry was hit by a car when he was just a cub and his injuries were so bad that he had to get his leg amputated. Over time he has adapted to being a three legged animal and appears to be happy where he is although I’m sure he would love to be out in the wild running around with other bears on all fours. Here is a video of Huckleberry on his own three legs.
Huckleberry the Three Legged Bear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF7eD--dg7w
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