Recently, contact or “touching” zoos, in which pets live and small tamed predators, are gaining more and more popularity. Visitors are allowed to stroke, pick up, feed them. Such a zoo delights children. In Saratov today there are several similar institutions.
Mi-mi-mi
This contact zoo in Saratov is located on the third floor of the Tau Gallery shopping center at 3 Dachnaya Street. It works from 10-00 to 22-00. A ticket costs 250 rubles on holidays and weekends, 200 rubles on weekdays, birthday parties and children under three years of age pass free of charge (a confirmation document must be shown at the ticket office), animals are not allowed.
Some rules for visiting:
- Photo and video are allowed at the zoo, but the administration urges you to turn off the flash.
- Animals can be stroked and picked up only under the supervision of an employee.
- Feeding pets is allowed only with food purchased at the zoo. A package costs from 25 to 50 rubles.
- Before entering this zoo in Saratov, you must wash your hands and put on shoe covers.
The territory here is clean, there is no unpleasant odor, the cells are spacious. Animals live in them - rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, hens, turkeys, monkeys, squirrels, parrots, as well as a hedgehog, pig, goat and others. They look full and satisfied.
"Little Raccoon"
Another contact zoo. Saratov began to attract guests from the vicinity who wish to visit this complex. It is located on the third floor of the Forum shopping center (near the Hay Market) at the address: Tankistov St., 1.
At the entrance there is a ticket office where you can buy a ticket and pet food. After that, in the dressing room you need to undress, put on shoe covers, go to the wash basin and wash your hands. All this is done in order to protect animals from infections.
The zoo has a lot of cages, aviaries and pens, where hens, rabbits, turtles, hedgehogs, owls, guinea pigs, pigs and kids, meerkats and chinchillas, white rats and a boa constrictor also live in the neighborhood.
"Madagascar" - a contact zoo in Saratov
It is located on the 3rd floor of the shopping center "Manege" at the address: Kirova ave. 14. The price of entrance tickets is 300 rubles for adults and 250 rubles for children. You can also purchase food for animals and birds.
The room is spacious, clean, beautifully decorated. The cages are compact, but the animals have enough space. They look quite contented with life.
Especially popular is the little teddy bear, which everyone wants to pet and feed.