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Animal Care (Husbandry)
Aluminum or poly scoop shovel
Black feed tubs - Farm & Fleet Farm Supply Area - various sizes
Buckets - 2 or 6 gallon sizes with or without lids. Buckets must have been used previously to hold food.
Deck (scrub) brushes - janitorial supply area
Disposable latex gloves - various sizes
Fertilizer sprayers for garden hoses
Fertilizer sprayers, 1 - 2 gallon pump - Garden section of stores
Garbage cans with lids, 32 gallon plastic
Hand scrub brushes
House brooms
Non-serrated cutlery
Plastic cutting boards
Plastic tubs with lids - various sizes
Push brooms
Putty knives - various sizes
Rubbermaid double bladed squeegees - 22 in or 30 in
Rubbermaid wheelbarrows (lawn care cart) - 2 wheel type
Scissor and knife sharpener
Scissors
Spray bottles - various sizes
Telescoping pole, 3 - 8 ft.
Window squeegees with cloth scrubber (combination attachment)
Garden hoses (soft and supple style) - various sizes
Dust pans - metal or plastic, various sizes
Whisk brooms
Fire hose nozzles for garden hoses
Metal hose nozzles for garden hoses
Fogg-It nozzles - Superfine (1/2 gallon/minute) and Fine (1 gallon/minute)
Quick connections for garden hoses

FOOD ITEMS (Food Items cannot be expired)
Applesauce
Baby Foods (fruit flavors for primates; meat flavors for carnivores)
Catnip (for lions/tigers not just Ryan and Tabu!)
Dried Fruits
Extracts (peppermint, maple, vanilla, etc)
Flour
Food seasonings
Honey
Jell-O
Jelly
Molasses
Noodles
Nuts (unsalted)
Peanut butter
Popcorn and an air popper
Raisins
Rice/grains
Sugarfree Drink Mixes (such as koolaid)
Unsalted Rice Cakes (can be flavored)
Unsalted Saltines
Unsweetened cereals
Animal Enrichment Bags of Playsand
BIG Tractor tires
Blankets
Blue Jeans
Boxes
Buckets
Burlap
Cardboard Barrels
Chains
Coloring Books
Crepe Paper
Egg Cartons
Electrical or Cable Wire Spools
Fans
Fire Hose
Fog It Nozzles
Garage Door Springs
Herb Garden
Hollow Logs
Hunting scents (from Cabella's or Gander Mountian - fox urine, raccoon scent, etc.)
Kiddie Pools
Nature Sound CDs or Cassettes
Nontoxic Kids Bubble Bath
Nontoxic Kids Bath Foam (it comes in a can like rediwhip)
Nontoxic Crayons
Old clothes (cut out buttons and zippers)
Paper Bags (any size)
Paper for Printing Calculators (to make streamers)
Paper Towel Tubes
Perfumes or Colognes
Pet Toys, Kong Brand Toys, Bird Toys
Phonebooks
PVC Pipes and end caps - multiple sizes and a set of hole saws
Rolls of Butcher Paper
Rope
Rubber Mats
Sheets/Pillowcases
Sidewalk Chalk
Tempra Paints and Paint Brushes
Tennis Balls
Thick Cardboard Kids Books
Towels
Wooden Barrels

VETERINARY HOSPITAL
Autoclave or gas sterilizer system
Blood analyzer
Cautery surgical unit
Digital x-ray unit
EKG
Human type gurney with collapsible wheels for large animal transport
Incubator
IV infusion pump, pediatric initially then regular
Magnifying head set
Mobile packs for equipment carrying
Mouth gags and endotracheal tubes
Multi-headed microscope
Nebulizer cage
Ophthalmic/otoscope
Pointer for microscope
Portable surgical lamp that could be used in any den or enclosure
Pulse oximeter
Stainless steel cages for hospital for hospitalized animals, squeeze capability if possible
Stethoscope
Surgical table
Ultrasound
Water heating pad for surgical table or cage
X-ray processor

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