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How Your Symbolic Adoption Helps
Providing outstanding care for animals includes more than receiving advanced medical support, specialized nutrition, and access to expert veterinary services – it also requires daily enrichment activities.
Every adoption supports enrichment for the animals at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. From toys and scents to puzzle feeders and play structures, each of the items encourage natural behaviors and keep animals mentally and physically engaged. While you can’t take home the real animal, you can help care for them by adopting their cuddly plush counterpart.
  • 1. Choose Your Animal

    Each plush represents an animal who calls the zoo home, and each adoption helps enrich their daily life.

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  • 2. Your Adoption Gives Back

    100% of proceeds from each adoption funds animal care by providing enrichment items and activities at the zoo. These keep the animals mentally and physically stimulated everyday, just like they would be in the wild.

  • 3. Bring It Home Or Gift It Forward

    Your adoption package includes:

    • Soft, 12” plush animal

    • Personalized adoption certificate

    • Facts about your species

    • Photo of the animal at the zoo

    The Wildest Gift in Town

    Looking for something unforgettable? Plush adoptions are the kind of gift people talk about long after the wrapping paper’s gone.

    Perfect for:

    • Birthdays (young or young at heart)
    • Baby showers for animal-loving parents-to-be
    • Bridal showers and wedding keepsakes
    • Teacher thank-yous and classroom celebrations
    • Holidays, stocking stuffers, or just-because

    If they love animals, they’ll love this. Bonus: no feeding required.

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