Louisville Zoo Wish List
The Louisville Zoo is seeking the following items for donation.
Please contact Kelly Grether
at (502) 238-5615 or
Kelly.Grether@louisvilleky.gov if you wish to make a donation.
Items must be delivered to the Zoo.
Administration Building
- Three (3) fans, any type (box, etc.)
- Cart or dolly for use in moving
- computer equipment
Animal Health Center
- BAIR hugger
- Box fans
- Hand truck dolly (convertible)
- Digital scale (3000-6000 gram)
- Knife sharpener (heavy-duty, such as Norton Multi-Oilstone Sharpener)
- Radios, portable FM
- Pruners (heavy-duty, limb)
- A lightweight, portable table [with stand] - plastic or metal, not wood
The Valley
- Sledge hammers (5lb, small)
- Cold chisels
- Fans
- Shop Vac, heavy-duty
- Drill bits, masonry
- Shelves (Rubbermaid shop type)
Glacier Run
- Pool skimmers
- Burlap bags
- Large cardboard boxes
- Hay barn
Bird Department
- Artificial plants (natural colors, vines, no artificial flowers)
- Brooders (intensive care)
- Food bowls & crocks (earth-tone color)
- Garden cart
- Golf carts (2)
- Ladders
- Painters pole (fiberglass)
- Pool skimmers
- Pressure washer (portable, electric)
- Tree pruner (with extension pole)
- Video system (baby monitor type)
Commissary
- Forklift
- Large Yard/Barn Tools
- Poly-tarps (any size)
- Wheelbarrow
- Farm supplies
Conservation Center
- Cordless drill
- Tools (screwdriver set, pliers, retractable utility knife )
- Finance
- Garden and lawn carts (2)
- Stapler, electric
- Fans
- Stapler, heavy-duty
- Paper shredder
- Dolly/Utility Cart
- Vacuum cleaner
- Pencil Sharpener, wall-mounted
Giraffe Area
- Small (wall mounted) clocks
- Weed eater (gas)
- Apartment size washer and dryer
- Electronic gram scale
- Leaf blower/vacuum (gas-powered)
- Plastic bowls with lids
- Radios (small, portable)
- Pruners/Branch cutters of all sizes
Gorilla Forest
- Plastic coffee containers 8 or 10 of the 18/20 gallon
- Rubbermaid totes
- Burlap sacks
Guest Services
- 2 g scale miniature trains
- Drill, electric
- Hedge clippers
- Leaf blowers
- Patio umbrellas
- Tables (folding, 6 x 30)
- Vacuums
HerpAquarium
- Caging (outdoor, lizard)
- Gator cart
- Shelving (metal)
- Thermometers (aquarium)
Horticulture
- Blowers (Hand held or backpack, gently used or new)
- Hand Tools (Round Point Shovels, Flat Shovels, Nursery Spades, Push Brooms, Hand Trowels, Grade Rakes, Leaf Rakes, Scoop Shovels, Pitch Forks, Tampers, etc)
- Tarps (8x10, 10x12, 12x14, etc)
- Bungee Cords
- 6 Step Ladder
- Push Spreaders
- Storage Bins
- 5 Gallon Buckets w/Lids
- Gloves (Jersey, Leather Palm, Nitrite)
- Chain saws, Protective Chaps, Ear Muffs
- Fire hoses and fittings (1.5)
- Greenhouse, poly-carbonate panel (28 x 60 with heater package)
- Greenhouse, Quonset
- Water Hoses, sprinklers,
nozzles, watering cans, fittings
(Ys, Shutoff Valves), hose menders
5/8
or 3/4 Hand Saws, fold up or straight blade - Honda tiller
- John Deere Gator (gently used or new)
- Lopping shears
- Pole saw, gas-powered (gently used or new)
- Log Chains
- Pruners (hand pruners or manual pole pruners)
- John Deere Tractor 4wd
- String Trimmers (gently used or new)
- T-Post drivers and pullers
- Wheelbarrows
- Dingo with Attachments
- Gatorade 2 or 5 Gallon Mixes
- Safety glasses, ear plugs, and disposable respirators
- 100 Tree Rope and Rope Bag
- PVC Fittings 1 and 1 ½
- Backpack Sprayers
- Stihl Weed eaters with .105 line
Islands
- Digital Radios, AM/FM
- Digital Radios, Weather
- Plastic containers
- Hand saw (crosscut)
- A felco folding pruning saw
- Wire ties assorted lengths (especially longer ones - 10 to 12 inches)
Lorikeet
- John Deere electric Gator (gently used or new)
Maintenance
- ½ Impact wrench Belt Sander
- Dolly
- Ladders. Fiberglass (all sizes)
- Forklift
- Heat gun & tool
- Man Lift
- Orbital sander
- Shop rags
- Shovels
- Submersible pump
- Tool boxes (side mount for pick-up truck)
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Membership Department
- Rubber bands
- Animal Stampers / Ink pads
- Dorm size refrigerator
MetaZoo/Education Department
- Office chairs (6-8) with arms
- 6- 8 Conference table chairs
- Bird perches
- Shop Vac
- Metal storage cabinets
- A Mettler Toledo gram/lb scale
- Special Events/Sponsorship
- Laminator
- Poly-Tarps
- SD Memory Card
- Mannequins
- HP 110 Color Ink Cartridges
- HP Photo Paper, 5 x 7 or 4 x 5
- Pop-up Backyard Canopy
- Golf cart/gator J
- 3M double-coated paper tape
- MP3 players
Books
- Mark Clayton; CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates
- Geoff Barrett; the New Atlas of Australian Birds
- Stephen Jackson; Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management
- Michael Swan; Snakes, Lizards and Frogs of the Victorian Mallee
Other
- Egg incubator $800
- Digital thermometers $50
