The woman out front looked a bit surprised to see a weird hippie lady show up to interrogate her about exactly freeze proof these models were, but took me in back to the warehouse to show me the 100, 200, and 300 gallon models.
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But I was suspicious! Anything can claim to be freezeproof but most of them aren’t!
ME: So are these really, truly—hang on, why do you have a certificate from the Association of Zoos?
HER: We make all the elephant toys.
ME: …elephant toys?
HER: *points to a photo of an elephant standing on a ball*
ME: …
HER: Tigers too.
HER: *points to a photo of a tiger gnawing on a large plastic object of indeterminate species*
ME: Yeah, okay, give me the hundred gallon in speckled sandstone now and I’ll order more as soon as I get dimensions.
They have a product section for "Round Thingies", because there comes a point at which the product is... well, a thingie that animals like to fuss with. Does it need to be more than that? I tell you, it does not.
Great story. We make do with 32 gallon trash barrels and lots of muscle moving water to other containers. Sadly, we don't get enough rain to justify monster barrels. But I covet.
This website needs more photos, stat. And by that, I mean *I personally* need to see more photos of large wild animals playing with toys. For my mental health.
I’ve done the tour at Carolina Tiger Rescue where they show the “indestructible” plastic ball made for horses…and what the tigers left of it after half an hour. 😳
Horses are hard on toys (I've seen videos of them just flopping sidelong onto bouncy balls and letting the ball bounce them back onto their hooves) (also a vid of a ball failing when flopped on and the horse ending up on the ground with an appalled expression). But tiger beeg. Tiger so beeg.
I used to volunteer at the zoo & can attest to the Big Cat play those barrels can withstand, as well as to the sobering effect of counting matched sets of incisor poky-holes, when you’re alone in a building with the incisor owners.
The best thing about Ursula is not just the weirdness magnet stories, but that there's always someone going 'Oh, Ronco left handed turnip twiddlers! Yeah, use them for work, that's a great brand!'
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ME: So are these really, truly—hang on, why do you have a certificate from the Association of Zoos?
HER: We make all the elephant toys.
ME: …elephant toys?
HER: *points to a photo of an elephant standing on a ball*
HER: Tigers too.
HER: *points to a photo of a tiger gnawing on a large plastic object of indeterminate species*
ME: Yeah, okay, give me the hundred gallon in speckled sandstone now and I’ll order more as soon as I get dimensions.
https://www.wildlifetoybox.com
A Polar Bear comes to call (and play in the rain barrels)! ;)
"That one has AI! Built in!"
You find the best things!
And I can't use rain barrels
Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer
And the towels are oh so fluffy
*googles*
OH THOSE THINGS!
Elephant toys?
...?
...!
ELEPHANT TOYS!