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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Debbie Dolittle Penwell can’t bethink how she started accession camels, as if adopting and apartment six of the beasts were annihilation extraordinary.
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Jozee Rooz Indoor Petting Zoo - 24 Photos | jozee rooz indoor petting zooIn her life, it wasn’t.
Penwell was aloft in White Center, a King County association that embraces its nickname, “Rat City,” on the burghal website. It’s area her adulation of animals began.
“I had rabbits, dogs, cats, ducks, chickens and one goat,” she said. “I was consistently the kid with the animals.”
At 51, she still is. Penwell and admirer Don Miller allotment a 10-acre acreage in Parkland and, if you calculation every little chicken, avoid and camel, they accept added than 100 animals.
“We met because both of us advertised goats for hire on Craigslist,” she said.
“I capital to analysis out the competition,” Miller said. “When I did, I knew I was done,” he added, acquainted he begin her actual attractive. “If you met the two of us, who would you hire a dupe from?”
Life, he said, has been blessed anarchy anytime since.
“Debbie gets calls from bodies all the time allurement if she can booty this beastly or that one,” Miller said. “She has a lot of connections, and she can advice abode best anything.”
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It's party time! - Military Life - Northwest Military - Home of ... | jozee rooz indoor petting zooA lot of times, that adjustment is at their own farm.
Just caring for so abounding creatures - both livestock and exotics - is a full-time gig. But that’s not the bisected of it for Penwell and Miller.
“We still hire out goats for brush-clearing, and we assignment with cities and landowners,” Penwell said. “We’ve got a arrangement now with the Point Defiance Zoo to do biscuit rides, and added zoos accept bidding an interest.”
In addition, Penwell for years has taken her animals to children’s parties about the Puget Sound, packing up aggregate from rabbits to wallabies, accouterment zebra, pony and donkey rides.
It paid the bills - some months, aloof barely.
“Our business consistently alone off in the winter months, because alfresco parties aren’t abundant fun in the rain,” Penwell said. “So we had to appear up with article to accompany in money in our off-season.”
Say accost to the Jozee RoozIndoor Cuddle Zoo.
The brace busy a abode in a tiny Tacoma band capital abaft a Jiffy Lube off Pacific Avenue, refurbished it and began loading it up with animals.
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Have You Visited Jozee Rooz Indoor Petting Zoo Yet? Animal Fun For ... | jozee rooz indoor petting zooLast week, they anesthetized their federal Department of Agriculture test. Their business authorization is in the works. And back they accessible - in backward January or aboriginal February, they achievement - they allegedly will accept the alone abreast operated accountant calm cuddle zoo in Pierce County.
“When the USDA ambassador came through, we had babyish yaks, goats, rabbits, two wallabies, miniature pigs, sheep, an alpaca baby” Penwell said, the account activity on and on. “He said we were cleaner than a lot of zoos.”
When the cuddle zoo opens, it will await on applicant visitors and parties. There’s a abstracted allowance for those celebrations, so no bearcat acreage in the refreshments.
“We’re activity to appointment schools and preschools with some babyish animals and try to assignment out visits,” Penwell said. “It’s about educating them about animals. We try to do that with anybody who visits the farm, too.”
Penwell, for instance, loves her maras, the fourth-largest rodent in the world. Explaining what they are to accouchement delights her.
“She wants bodies to apperceive about and adulation animals as abundant as she does,” Miller said.
Penwell adopts out some of her critters, abnormally babyish goats, rabbits and ducks. The animals who alive in the cuddle zoo will accept their own pens and cages.
“There are shy animals, which end up actuality displayed, and if they get a little fatigued they can retreat to pens, which are off limits,” Penwell said. “But these are accessible animals. They’re curious.”
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Jozee Rooz Indoor Petting Zoo - 24 Photos | jozee rooz indoor petting zooAs she said that, a babyish yak nuzzled adjoin her, and a dupe nibbled at one of her shoestrings.
Penwell has three accouchement - two developed sons and a 12-year-old babe - and Miller has a 16-year-old daughter. The brace is additionally allowance adopting an 8-year-old granddaughter.
That’s alone as abounding accouchement as they accept camels.
As for the name of their new venture, Penwell explained that Jozee Rooz is the name of her admired wallaby.
“We’re talking about franchising and, if we do, every authorization will accept at atomic one wallaby,” Penwell said. “We accept two here, including Jozee, who could be pregnant.”
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Information from: The News Tribune, https://www.thenewstribune.com
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