Exactly. If you do not have a
special snuggly person in your life,
that is totally OK because we
have several cuties to make you
feel all that good. Loving this
morning. That's right.
We want to welcome Amanda Winter
with once in a while. You know,
you not only entertain people with
these animals, right? But you
also educate. Absolutely.
So most of what we do at once
in a while edge is educational,
based on education,
but we also like to have fun.
So it's a little bit of everything
for everybody and it's no good if
you're not having fun. Oh, absolutely.
I love that you point out all.
Teaches kids and adults and especially Paul.
He is loving this rahe Bunny awesome baby.
The named after Game of Thrones.
He sure is. That's sandor.
So for those of you that know Game
of Thrones, you know who that is.
But Sandor is a Flemish giant rabbit.
He is a staple of once in a while.
He is absolutely wonderful and loves
to be pet by any Bunny out there.
Any Bunny. You know the reason we
wanted to bring some animals to the
show this morning? Because they're
so cuddly and you give that
experience at once in a while.
Not only do you educate
people. But you also allow
people to get pretty close to
them, right? That's right.
So not every animal it
once in a while is petable,
but every animal you can at least
see up close and learn about.
But today we brought all the
cuddly animals, not just bunnies,
but some more animals that people can pick
and you brought. So we thought you
would have a race today. Maybe.
Whether it's a tortoise or a turtle or
well, don't feel bad,
you're not the only one.
So we have actually four of
the same species out here.
This is Shelton, John, that's Daniel.
This is jet and rocket over here.
Our youngest of the tortoises,
but these are all the same species.
The red footed tortoise.
Red for Valentine's Day,
right, but very, very sweet.
One of my favorite species because
they are social with each other.
They get along great and they
get along great with anybody.
And can these tortoises become much bigger?
Will they become, well,
they're not a giant species of tortoise.
Not like the Galapagos or the
Aldabra as they get enormous
like over 204 hundred pound.
These guys get about 20 pounds Max.
So we're really not a huge tortoise.
They get about yay big.
You know, Amanda, the real question is
if they did have a race, who would win?
Well, absolutely.
Slow and steady I think would win.
I think the rabbit would have short
bursts and then he would just lay there
lazily like that after a good snack.
Great day, I say.
But you know, Amanda,
back to what Paul mentioned,
I think it's quite interesting.
How can you tell the difference
between a tortoise and a turtle?
That's a great question.
There's several differences, but the
main differences are land versus water.
Which one do you think swims more,
a turtle or a tortoise? A turtle.
A turtle definitely swims more.
All turtle species can swim at least some.
Some turtle species swim all the time,
like in the ocean, right?
But these guys are land animals only.
And are they faster?
Slow, in theory, like,
as far as the tortoise,
they're kind of fester turtles.
Faster than a tortoise would be slow.
Therefore they really don't catch animals
to eat, so they also don't eat animals.
They're vegetarians,
so that's another big difference.
Some turtles eat animals, correct?
All turtles eat animals.
They charge.
They eat in all kinds of animals.
Alligator snapping turtles
are actually carnivores,
so they will eat all kinds of.
You guys are not eating any kind of
no vegetarians.
The vegetarians in our audience,
definitely education.
OK, now what kind of services though?
And you've got great animals,
but what kind of services do you
do? All sorts of different services.
We do anything from a formal presentation
where you're kind of listening to me
talk about the animals one by one,
species by species,
answering questions, things like that.
And by the way, we always try to
educate you and answer questions,
of course, no matter what.
But we also have casual animal experiences
like what you're doing right now,
just kind of petting and
hanging out with the animals.
Things like petting zoos, meet and greets.
Even cuddle parties and photo
opportunities and animal therapy.
I love this so much.
I could see animal therapy very, very.
Yeah.
Be healing for anyone.
And you have definitely anyone young
or old like we mentioned already.
And we have all sorts of different animals.
We only brought a few today for two segments,
but we have all kinds of different animals.
Whatever you think might be handleable
or cuddly, we can help you out with.
As you know, we have snakes and
tarantulas and all kinds of animals.
You know so much about all the animals.
Every time you come on, we're like man,
she taught us something new.
Single time.
That must be so fun to get to do that,
Paul, right.
And you have casual animal experiences.
What is that?
So the casual ones are the
ones that I mentioned second,
which would be like your meet and greets,
very casual maybe for a party or
an event petting zoos as well as
animal therapy or cuddle parties.
OK. Well, thank you, Shelton.
John, you are a great musician.
We're going to have you play
with Alexia later on about that.
We want everyone to get social
with us right now.