Diet Mascot Adopt a Hippo or Whale

Here’s another tip for what you can do while waiting for the grand opening on April 1st (only 4 more days!)

Adopt A Hippo or Adopt A Whale, as your diet mascot and a tribute to the weight you are going to lose or have already lost, plus it is for a good cause and helps to save an endangered animal.

We were inspired by the post made by Mr and Mrs Fat on their blog about a group of women who adopted a hippo to commerate their weight loss (combined total lost over 490 lbs). A zoo spokesman for said: “People adopt our animals for all sorts of reasons, but this is the strangest yet.” To read the newspaper article, click here.

Our staff here think it is such a cool idea that we are going to be adopting our very own hippo as a mascot, and maybe a whale too later on. (Note: a couple years ago Angelgirl’s 1st grade class adopted a whale as a class project - we still have the poster.)

Let me know if you decide to adopt one too!