26/05/2026
RIP Rubio 4-11-2016 to 5-25-2026
Our years at Cedar Point are adding up (12), so it's inevitable that we have to retire park animals mostly due to age. Curtis is the only original CP resident now at 13. It is especially hard when it's a park (and Mary) favorite. Last season, we let people know that we would be retiring Rubio, one of our big nubians at the end of the season. He was born in 2016, so I named him and his siblings after the presidential candidates. He was the last of them. He wintered well, but last week, he started breathing hard. We hoped in was pneumonia (very treatable), but x-rays found lung cancer. We had scheduled the vet to come, but he left on his own terms. Yesterday, while spending his last day out with his goat friends, he suddenly collapsed and passed away in his caretaker Zac's arms.