Made by Mrs Jones x

My youngest son and I had a Meet and Greet experience with the red pandas at Exmoor Zoo this week. It was a Christmas present but gets booked up pretty far in advance as they only allow one experience a day, and not every day of the week.  There is something wonderful about red pandas, isn't there? They look like cuddly toys and although I was desperate to reach out and touch one, we were not allowed. And rightly so, because they actually have pretty sharp teeth and claws. Our experience started by making panda cakes - a mix of powder, pellets, grated fruit and vegetables mixed with water and patted together like giant falafels. Then off we went with the cakes, some fruit and some long nosed tongs and into the enclosure. We were told that it was unlikely that all four red pandas would come out to be fed, but they must have liked the look of us, because they all came out and were very interested in the chopped apple and grapes fed to them with the tongs. The keepers believe that S...