Love for animals and curiosity about other species inspired the ZooYou Preserve Custodian David Watkinson to create this website.
His love for animals led him to train a wild rabbit to come when called, eat out of his hand and come into the house for a snack. While the rabbit and squirrels would come in for a snack, the cat TouTou would purr anticipating the treat he would always get for being a good host:
For a fun story about David’s prior animals and his evolution from working on movies and TV shows to building ZooYou, please take a look at the page FINEDAY ORIGINS (with a Cat Tale)
For David’s story about the original preserve for Earth animals on another planet, please see PRESERVE PLANET: Alien Adventures.
And If you’d like to learn more about David’s life, please get a copy of his autobiography on Amazon:
Young David wearing a funny hat trying to balance rescue birds on his head.
And finally, if you’re wondering about TouTou and bunny here’s what happened.
Contemplating the future after aging TouTou would be gone, David considered replacing him with Bunny as a permanent house guest. It seemed logical since Bunny was a daily visitor with multiple visits per day.
However, after TouTou crossed over the rainbow bridge at age 20, Bunny never made another appearance. The surprising immediate disappearance is a mystery that remains to this day.
And then David and his wife Kim gave up their Colorado home to move to Kansas so that Kim could start a new job there working for the Japanese company Panasonic. Kim was recruited for the job because she is fluent in Japanese. (It was her first language. Although she’s a blonde American, she grew up in Japan living there until she went to UCLA.)
So David and Kim currently live in an apartment in Kansas with three new cats and a bird feeder on their apartment balcony.