Puggle preview in 3, 2, 1.... When baby echidnas, also known as puggles, hatch (yes, hatch) they are smaller than a jelly bean. These pink little pouch potatoes spend the first 53 days of their life in mom's belly pocket gripping onto specialized hairs with their tiny claws. Unlike most mammals, echidnas secrete milk through special glands in their pouch that the puggle laps up until they are big enough to venture out on their own. #pugglepreview #monotrememagic #echidna #sdzsafaripark | San Die

Orphaned echidna puggle nursed back to health at Adelaide Zoo 🥰 🥰 Zoos SA: "Adelaide Zoo would like to introduce you to its newest arrival, Kathari (cut-tree), which means ‘prickle’ in Ngarrindjeri language. The eight-week-old Short-beaked Echidna was named by Senior Indigenous Conservation Officer, Leon ‘Scornzy’ Dodd. The owners of a property in Callington brought Kathari to Monarto Safari Park after they discovered its mum deceased. Weighing just 155g when he arrived, the little one was han

🐶 DOG REACTIVE PUGGLE SESSION 1 🐶 Boy did he smash it ! It’s amazing what a difference 1 session can make with a dog. ◾️avoiding a situation doesn’t help ◾️distracting a dog doesn’t help solve the problem ◾️dragging training out for months and months doesn’t do anyone any favours. What does work is.... ✅ addressing the route cause ✅ using all 4 quadrants of operant conditioning. ✅ teaching your dog how to cope with stress ✅ recognising the calming signals your dog offers and REWARD them. 🌐 ww