Animal Care Workers Share 10+ Photos Showing How They Weigh Our Small Animals

To make sure that an animal is healthy and developing normally, professional caregivers have to measure its size and weight. But it’s not always easy for either party. So zookeepers and shelter workers invent different ways to weigh their fosterlings, and some of them are really unusual while others are downright adorable.

Wildlifejungle would like to show you 10 photos that display how you can weigh different kinds of animals.

1. How to weigh a prairie dog — step 1: lure him with a walnut.

2. To weigh a squirrel monkey, you should put some mealworms into a bucket attached to the scale.

3. The easiest way to weigh a wild sloth

4. Kittens have to be tricked into being weighed.

5. “Today at the zoo, I learned how zookeepers weigh turtles: upside down on a can.”

6. Just place a tree branch on the scale and you’ll be able to weigh any bird.

7. This baby elephant is bravely standing on the scale on its own.

8. To weigh a tiger cub, you can use a bucket.

9. Baby bats aren’t afraid of being weighed either.

11. There are special spoons to weigh small frogs.

Does your pet like getting weighed? We’d like to see their photos in the comments!