Patty Spitler was joined by News 8’s Pam Elliot and Amazon John and Meerkat Mel from Silly Safaris to learn all about a helpful marsupial. John and Mel joined the show to set the record straight about one commonly misunderstood animal: the opossum. Ticks are spread by rodents and other small mammals. The Safari folks say by keeping the rodent population in check, opossums indirectly help reduce tick exposure. They also eat other insects and pose no threat to chickens, farm an

Meet a baby reindeer who needs some special care! Amazon John and Meerkat Mel, of Silly Safaris, are bottle-feeding a one-month-old male reindeer calf named Artemis after his mother was unable to produce milk, requiring human care.