The Great Passion Play has always had animals as part of the "cast" for the play; horses to ride and pull Pilate's chariot, camels, donkeys, sheep and doves (white homing pigeons) and this year a Pharoah Hound for Pilate's Porch. The animals add to the production and also the unpredictableness of working with animals and young children.
Last year the idea for a petting zoo was floated out, and work began to create an area which would house animals which were not part of the play, but would become a petting zoo outside the entrance to our Holy Land Tour area. And so, the idea began to take shape with enclosures, watering troughs, decorative rocks, plants and shelters for the animals. It took a lot of people, a lot of work and stick-to-it-ivness, and donations of animals, but the Noah's Ark Park Petting Zoo is now a reality. It has become home to Buddy the Llama, Simon the Wool Sheep, Cinnamon the Pigmy Goat, a number of sheep and lambs, butterball turkeys, Rhode Island Red Hens, Muskogee Ducks, two miniature horses with more animals expected Sunday afternoon.
It has been fun having this new addition to TGPP and even the groundhogs and feral cats have made our new animals feel welcome. Our visitors have enjoyed the attraction, the PP workers will need to sign on for feeding and clean up duties, but it's nice to know we won't have to worry about mowing the enclosures any more since the animals keep the entire area closely trimmed. I'll post some pictures soon.
I can't imagine what it must have been like for Noah and his family.
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