I think zoos are taking over my life

Just wondering if anybody else has this problem,having just done my 15 visit to Chester Zoo this year yesterday,along with 8 visits to Twycross Zoo this year,plus 53 other collections in the U.K,and 16 collections in Germany.Do i need to get another hobby or just keep pushing on doing the Zoos.

 

I've visted Chester zoo 6 days in one week over the summer! I've been to Blackbrook twice, London, edinburgh, Innsbruck and Chester lots of other times throughout the year. I love zoos. Let them take over your life!

 

i have been to heaps of zoos, talk zoos at skool, the pub, and in my trial chemisrty exam, i wrote a half page on elephants in captivity! i think zoos eventually take opver your whole life!

 

So its just normal then??

 

yeah, probably

I usually try to intertwine zoos (or animals) into any school projects

 

I did that for my science project. I'll upload it on the forum soon. It was on the taricitc hornbills.

 

the worst feeling i get in the world is when you are standing there watching some giraffes and you start babbling on about how they are the only mammal born with horns or something equally as trivial and then wondering why you have heard no reply you turn to look at your girlfriend only to find she is no longer beside you and instead she has walked away, slumped herself on a post and is giving you that "why the @#$% have your dragged me to yet another &*%$ing zoo and why the $#@* do you think i give a damn about giraffe horns!!"

and you realise that you really should have said yes when she suggested the gallery when you lay in bed that morning.

methods to not let zoos take over your life...

a) whenever you catch yourself daydreaming about winning tattslotto and building a zoo, switch to something else. its wasted thinking time. you'll have this one for the rest of your life and will still be phasing out animals and phasing others in. besides its never, ever, ever going to happen. i personally find thinking about sex to be the best substitute just becuse that can quickly become more interesting to me than animals, but whatever floats you boat guess (just don't start blurring the lines between the two).

b) learn to visit the zoo by yourself. as someone with a morbid fear of doing public activities alone (i have never seen a movie by myself or eaten out on my own) i have come up with a good solution. i take a sketch pad and use the whole "drawing animals' as an excuse for being there. makes me feel professional, not like a dork sneaking in a zootrip that nobody knows about.

c) keep you zoo-obsession somewhat to yourself. don't blabber at everyone about squirrel monkeys. nobody cares about them. in actual fact on the average persons list of everything in order of interest zoos arn't even close to being in the "very interested" bracket. potential female love-interests generally would rather you engage them in a conversation about deconstructing their dream last night and you mum's just thinking "this kid has been talking about *&%&ing elephants for years....shut up!!" and nodding as if she's listening.

d) and lastly, keep posting on the forum. its about the best outlet you've got. (just delete the history so nobody knows your secret shame - or you lameo cyber-name if your lame enough to have one).....

 

Patrick, patrick, patrick, you make me laugh!

Your latest post is so spot-on! I see myself in a lot of the things you say there - designing zoos in my mind (I had everything planned except how to pay for it all!) ; babbling about zoos to my friends and long-suffering wife
(I'm married, so I can't think about sex as a substitute, as you suggest.)

Seriously, until I found this forum, I thought I was alone; now I realise that a lot of you also have the zoo disease (Incurable, which I don't mind a bit!)
When I found zoobeat, I felt like a starving man who had been given a banquet. I spent hours here, gorging myself. Now I pace myself, but I still need this forum!

 

a and c are un achevable, and b and d im already dojng!

 

That has really made me laugh patrick, so so true.

My last girlfriend got fed up with me dragging her to zoo after zoo, and she never got the whole "but its the exhibits and the different ways the zoo are layout" argument!

 

I learnt very many years ago not to visit zoos in company with other less interested people, however close they may be......

 

Its something you have and never seems to leave you, it only seems to get stronger with time

 

You know you're beyond help when you decide to move and will only consider houses which are near a zoo holding your favourite species (fortunately Mr Gigit is almost as obsessed and agreed!)

 

..you must the world's only male who is finds changing the subject by thinking about sex un achievable.....you are a supreme being.

 

Did you know that eccentrics live longer? It's because they follow their passion and do what they love and couldn't give a hoot what anyone else thinks.

 

its perfectly normal, dont worry about it
I have lived in several zoos, got engaged in a zoo, got married in a zoo and spent my honeymoon in a zoo

 

Well if its normal then i had better carry on working out my tour of zoos in the South West of England over the Christmass period then but before then have got 2 months worth of weekends looks like i might have to visit a few more zoos then.

 

Yeah, I've got a zoo tour planned as soon as I get my car

 

ha ive had a car for 2 years, but havnt been on me trip yet cause it costs to much!

 

Wow... and I thought going to dubbo, canberra and mogo once every year was extreme... I agree with everything you aid patrick... I hate going anywhere by myself... can't even go shopping for groceries on my own. Even paying for a mate to come to the Gold Coast and Cairns for three weeks just so I don't have to go alone. But like you said. have found myself talking to myself about the animals... I like to do the opposite of going alone and I go with groups like the war widows and schools... then they like to hear the **** that comes from your mouth while your there... and people just think your doing a nice community service... lol and Zooboy... After that A and C comment.... i know a good nut doctor in batho for ya... JOking