Tai Shan made his first trip outside on the morning of December 22. He played on the scale, headed out the door about ten minutes later, and made a hard right, proceeding along the back wall of the building and over to the fence line. He investigated the fresh gravel patches as he walked along the fence line into the yard. He picked his feet up and placed them carefully onto the grass and ground as he walked.

Tai especially enjoyed the dead limbs and spent a lot of time hanging on as Mei tried to tug him off. He won just about all these tugging bouts. Tai also climbed up one of the trees until he reached the metal sleeve. He also went all the way to the bottom of the dry moat and back again.

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