Fire hose enrichment

repurposeSTORY: The Duluth Fire Dept made animal enrichment toys out of old Fire Hose for the Lake Superior Zoo! As you can see, the bears, goats, and parrots all loved them! Shop our inventory of Firehose HERE - LINK IN BIO

Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park invited members of Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue to launch their new otter feed experience, after working together on a new enrichment project. Aquarists at the park recently approached the fire service for donations of used hose to create puzzles for the Asian Short-Clawed Otters and the Dorset team…

Doc the #tiger meets "Chloe" the fire hose ungulate (horse) for the first time! Luke was in the Atlanta area (from the UK) for a #Hose2Habitat animal enrichment workshop, and built this in his “spare” time. He is the only person we have heard of in the world who makes intricate, one-of-a-kind fire hose creatures like this, so we were thrilled to be able to work with him on this special project for the big cats at Noah’s Ark! #AnimalEnrichment #firehose #tigerenrichment #recycle…

If you grew up around palm trees maybe you spent some time making and playing with little balls woven from their leaves. They're fun little trinkets for the beach and now also a popular paper craft, but we've got a job to do and animals depending on us to stave off boredom. We can't work with that Pinteresty garbage, we need to work with zoo-tough materials. Thank god we have fire hose. Take some hose and slice it down its length along the crease. For this 4" flat diameter stuff I have about…

Hose2Habitat, fire hose swing

Swing made from tyres, wood and fire hose

Repurposed fire hose hammock

Enrichment Instructions | hose2habitat

Fire hose swing/hammock with thick ply and viewing window