- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Of course, I'm going in Drogo's enclosure.
That is truly a jungle gym.
We keep adding more stuff for him to climb on
and it definitely is getting very used to it.
There's no doubt about that.
It's amazing, this animal here.
Drogo, good morning, buddy, what are you doing?
He is so absolutely adorable.
How you doing buddy?
You okay today?
Well, guess what?
I tell you what, keeping a sloth now for the last few weeks,
we've learned a lot about it, right?
And a sloth is as close to a reptile as you can get
with a mammal in a way, right?
Because they don't regulate their body temperature.
They need enclosures that are
about the same as most reptiles, right?
Maybe a 85 degree hotspot, lower eighties,
upper seventies cool spot.
They need about 60 to 70% humidity.
We give them lots and lots of climbing room.
'Cause again, are very intelligent, need enrichment.
And what we do is every couple of weeks
we've been switching around all of the ropes
and stuff like we have in here and trust me at night,
this guy goes crazy.
(upbeat music)
And I tell you what.
I am going to, one day, do a live cam in here
so you guys can watch it, 'cause it's addictive.
I sometimes, I'm like two o'clock in the morning,
sitting on my bed, just watching Drogo cruise around.
But the one thing that you may not know about these guys
is that they only poop about every 4 - 7 days and pee.
And they crawl down to the ground to do it.
Now, when they do that, sometimes, I'll be honest with you,
it gets on their fur a little bit.
So you do have to wash these guys.
You can give them a shower, a bath.
Well, we're gonna today, try to give Drogo a bath.
That's right.
For the very first time, we're gonna give him a bath.
Now sloths do like water, we don't know if Drogo does.
His previous owner used to give him a shower,
usually every couple of weeks.
So this will be the first bath.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
I don't know if it's gonna go smooth,
not smooth, I'm not sure.
So what do you say we just get ready
and give this a shot, right?
What possibly could go wrong, right?
So, this should be pretty fun.
So Jay of course is like the head sloth keeper, right?
So you think this is gonna go okay?
- Yeah, I think it's gonna go great.
- Do you really think so? - Fantastic.
- Really?
So the idea is, is that we're gonna fill this up
with kind of warm water, right?
'Cause they don't regulate the temperature.
Might not be too hot, but I want it to be
kind of whatever.
And it's gonna, this is gonna have soap in it?
- Soap and water.
- Soap and water in this one.
So kind of like a bubbly bath, you know what I mean?
And then we're gonna have this as the rinse,
with just water, right?
- Yeah. - And then the other thing
that guys may not know is that
they need to have their claws clipped, right?
- Yup. - Well, good thing
that Jay also grooms dogs and cats, just cats or dogs?
- No, just dogs.
- Just dogs, no cats, okay.
Have you ever groomed a sloth?
- No, there's time for everything.
- What could possibly go wrong?
So we're gonna go ahead and fill these guys up
with lukewarm water.
Some suds here, clean there.
We've got a little dryer
that you brought from your place, right?
And we've got clippers and all kinds of stuff.
So, yeah, we're gonna work, Jay.
- We got this, it's gonna go great.
- We're about to give a sloth a bath.
Oh my God, this is goin' be exciting.
(upbeat music)
- You guys need to remember that this hose
actually comes out in about 84 degrees water
which is about where we want it to be.
So, we're gonna fill this up about, what?
About a quarter till?
- Yeah, maybe a foot and a half or so.
- Okay, and then you're gonna put some bubbly in there?
- Yep. - What do we got, puppy?
- Puppy with oatmeal.
- Puppy with oatmeal, mild powder scent.
Oh, he's gonna smell so good.
- Wanna smell that?
- Mm, that smells good.
- I can't wait till Drogo smells like that.
I would say that if he's gonna swim,
he's gonna just swim like that.
- Dog paddle style.
Yeah, well, I'm going with the back stroke idea.
- So Andy thinks he's going to do the backstroke.
- I think he's gonna backstroke.
- No way. - No way.
I think one of a couple of things gonna happen.
Either he's gonna sit still,
he's gonna try to fight the heck out of us.
- That's definitely gonna happen.
- Or he's gonna try to swim around.
I think one of those three things is gonna happen.
Or maybe two. - All three of them.
- It's possible, so it's definitely a first time.
But if it does goes well, that'll be pretty awesome.
- Yeah, it'll be good.
- 'Cause again, you know, it's not like they stink bad
but there definitely is a smell.
I mean, there's no doubt that, there's a mammal smell.
So he's gonna have to get bathed at least once a month.
- Once a month. - Yeah. Something like that.
So, we're just gonna fill this up
and we're gonna get Lori over,
'cause I think we should let Lori do it.
We should let Lori do the whole thing.
- We should just let Lori do everything, actually.
- Yeah, what do you guys think, that'll be great.
She would toss Drogo through the front window.
(both laughing)
Drogo would go flying across.
So Drogo bathing day is awesome.
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Lori, predictions?
(Lori laughing)
- Predictions, somebody's getting bit.
(Lori laughing)
- You think someone's going to get bit?
- High probability.
- Well, stay out the bite zone then.
- I will.
- I think you're gonna give the sloth a bath.
- [Man] Okay.
- I mean, maybe he'll love it maybe he'll just be like, yay!
- That's what I'm thinking. - [Man] The backstroke,
he's the backstroke or front stroke?
- Back. - You think he's going to
swim like this or swim like?
- Oh, I don't think he's gonna swim at all.
I think he's going to be like, ah!
(All laughing)
- Let's get Drogo and let's get over, let's do this Jay.
(upbeat music)
- Drogo, guess what, it's a big day, it's bath time.
- So he's really good about coming down.
Especially when he's in his hammock and stuff like that.
Coming down is no problem.
It's when we get in the bath
that might be a little bit of an issue.
So we'll get his little blankie that he's good about.
Come on Drogs.
Oh, by the way, I got to tell you guys,
we have some merch coming out in the next week.
That's gonna be Drogo Christmas merch.
So you guys definitely gonna want to wait for that,
there's a little preview, you guys are gonna love it.
Come on Drogs.
There we go, Drogo, there's my Drogo.
- Good job.
- All right, good job, bud.
And here we go.
- Oh my goodness, so what now?
- So what do you think?
What do you think we should do?
Just go for it or what?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Guess what, Drogo?
You're about to get bath time, come on buddy.
- [Lori] I think it's baptized.
(all laughing)
- Oh, he does not like it.
He does not like the water so far.
Come on, Drogo.
Come on, I'm gonna get this side.
- Come on buddy.
- Come on bud. - It's okay.
- There you go, baby, okay, water time.
He's actually not doing bad.
(all laughing)
- He's doing the back stroke, doing the back stroke.
Called it!
There you go, Drogo, you're gonna smell so good, buddy.
- Was he stinking before?
- Yeah, he's got a little odor to him, but not too bad.
But he's doing really, he's actually doing better
than I thought he was gonna do, to be honest with you.
- He's not making any noises or nothing.
- He's not going crazy.
You know, I mean, I can even get his head and everything.
You know we think we're going to do no water.
There you go, buddy, you're doing so good.
I thought, Jay, this is going so much better
Take a look at my camera.
(All laughing)
So what do you think?
Think it's going good, Lori?
- Yeah, I'm actually shocked.
- You're gonna smell so good and you're gonna be so good.
Oh my goodness gracious.
(indistinct speaking)
- I know, like yeah, what is that?
We thought he looked weird before.
(All laughing)
- Look at this,
he's like, I'm not in the water anymore.
You can't make me stay.
Look at how cute he looks, oh my God, he looks so cute.
- He's like, oh yeah, you guys think this is funny?
Give me that hand I'm going to bite you up.
Good job, Drogo, you're doing so good, buddy boy.
I know, you're doing good.
I tell you guys seriously, this is going so much better
and he's going to smell so good when he's done.
And he doesn't seem to be like freaking out at all.
He's just very methodical.
There you go, buddy, oh my gosh.
He's so cute with suds on, isn't he?
(All chuckling)
- [Andy] As a dog groomer, how's this going?
- It's going better than most dogs.
He's like an old man just hanging out in the bath,
you know what I mean?.
Like, hey, what's going on?
- I think that's good.
- Okay, do you want to go to the next thing?
- Yeah, I was thinking that
you were going to do the transfer Of this one.
- Oh no, Lori is doing it.
- Yeah.
(both chuckling)
- Okay, here, hold the camera.
Come on buddy.
(All laughing)
- There you go, good boy.
- All right, so now we just need to rinse him down.
Obviously we might get all the soap off him.
(water hissing)
Good job, Drogs, good job there, buddy.
Hang on buddy, it's okay, baby boy.
It's okay, I'm right here, I'm right here.
There you go, Drogo.
He smells so much better, whoa.
(all laughing)
(water hissing)
It's okay, Drogo.
(Lori laughing)
Drogo is not happy right now.
- He doesn't like this part.
- He's much happier in the soap.
It's okay, Drogo, it's okay.
No, it's okay, it's okay, buddy.
It's all right, we're almost done.
You just got to get a little bit more soap on you.
And you got to get a little more that soap off baby boy.
Come on, come on.
- Hold him like that.
- Here we go.
Oh, it's easy for you to say hold him up.
(all laughing)
(water hissing)
Bathe that a little bit too.
- I got it, Ryan, don't worry about it.
(all laughing)
- Oh no, oh no, he needs something else to hold on to.
- It's almost done, oh my God, he is so upset.
- I know he's holding on tight.
He's turning a bit with pain, softly.
- There you go, Drogo.
- I think that's good.
- Okay, now we just need to try off buddy boy.
The actual part of soaping him off went really really well.
This part he didn't like, which is interesting
because the previous owner used to shower him all the time.
So I thought that he would like the shower,
but apparently he doesn't.
So we're just going to try to dry him off a little bit
with a towel and then we'll just gently blow dry him,
and see how that goes.
Just kind of getting him a little bit dry, the best we can.
It's okay, Drogo, it's okay, buddy.
We're right here, it's almost over.
I know, it's okay, Drogo.
Drogo, it's okay.
So I think Drogo's just about done with this, for sure.
Here you take this Larry.
But just one last little bit, and then we're all done.
(blow drier buzzing)
- He does not like that.
- She said he liked it.
(All laughing)
- The good about this
is that it's going all the way back here.
- So definitely he doesn't like this part at all
but he doesn't get a little dry.
He can dry the majority on a own.
But you have to be, you know this is just something
that we have to do to him unfortunately.
Overall, I think he did very well.
Definitely not enjoying the blow dry part.
There's no doubt about that, but we're almost done.
We'll get him back in his enclosure.
He'll settle down in no time and he'll be completely fine.
We're learning this thing and we're going to have to learn
how to do this the best for the least amount of stress
for him and the least amount of danger for us.
Because he's definitely not happy.
And he would bite us right now
if we give him the opportunity.
But we're almost done, get him back.
And that would be our first experience with bathing a sloth.
And then the last thing we need to do is that
their nails do need to be clipped just like a dog, right?
So it's important to do it.
So we're going to just try to do this as easily as we can.
I'll try to distract him a little bit over here,
while Jay tries to actually get a little cloth here.
That's okay, Drogo.
Look, there we go, we got one.
I think what we're going to do is just wait on the nails
because, you know, he just looks like
he's getting a little bit too stressed out.
So we're going to go ahead
and get him back in his enclosure.
We're all done, Drogo.
I know you are so upset, I understand that.
I get it baby, but you're going to be okay.
He smells so good though, compared to what he did.
There's no doubt about it.
All right, Drogo, we're back home, we did good buddy.
- [Jay] Good job bud.
- Good job, Drogs, here you go.
(gentle music)
I'm not going to lie.
That was probably more stressful for us
than it was for him to be totally honest with you.
Cause you know, this is the first time we've ever done it
and you don't want the animal
to get stressed out and stuff like that.
And you can see he's back to kind of crawling around.
He's going to be fine, he'll be dry.
It's nice and warm in here, obviously.
In the next couple hours he'll be completely fine.
But wow, what an experience my heart rate is up.
I've done a lot of crazy things
with King cobras and mambas and giant snakes.
And, I don't think I've ever been more nervous
about working with an animal.
But, all in all I think we did good.
And look at now he's eating right off the bat.
Yeah, which is great.
That tells you, you know, he's not that stressed out.
He went right back, that's his treat.
And again, we want to reward him at the end
because although it was kind of a traumatic experience
for him, like, oh my gosh,
I'm getting bathed and stuff like that.
Now we give them a reward like good job, Drogo.
And he'll remember that, right?
At the end, like if I do that again,
I get a treat at the end and he loves sweet potato.
So, Drogo, you did absolutely amazing.
- Good job, Jay.
- Good job. - And there it is,
bathing a sloth guys, absolutely amazing.
I cannot tell you how much I love Drogo.
He is absolutely incredible.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to start an entire
playlist of Drogo right over here.
You can check that out.
You can just get your fix of Drogo if you want it.
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