a wet gala
Jul. 8th, 2013 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaAn owl had his eye removed, since it wasn't functioning properly and was in pain. The technical name for the surgery is enucleation. There's a thing called an exenteration, which is a bit more extreme. It's not the most complicated procedure; hold the eyelids open with thread, remove most of the gunk (I got to see some vitreous humor) without exposing the bone, stuff it with gauze, cut along the eyelids so they're fused shut. The act of anesthetizing took a long time, about ten times he took the owl out and every time, the owl flailed his wings around and such, and he had to put him back inside the night-nigh gas box. There's a technical name for that but I don't know it. This happens a lot: if the deer is just standing there when he's tranquilized, he'll go down with one shot. If they're chasing the deer, they'll need 3, 4, 5 shots to down them. The crow was simply along for the ride.
The raccoon room will not see raccoon use for reasons that have to do with reintegrating them into the wild after they leave us.
One of the turtles we got was at least 85 years old. See, it was adopted when its owner was 12 and she recently passed away at 95. I got a good look when the table sort of collapsed: his plastron is tiny, one of his forelegs was amputated after an infection, he was a bit bloated. I did the worst ever Yoda impression and said "When 85 years you reach, look as good you will not, hm."
I've never seen Skinky move so fast. Christina interpreted it as "freedom, beautiful freedom!.. I hope those wasps don't sting him." There was a sunshower as that happened and back inside the reptiles went.
Christina heard that they tend to be aggressive around the color black because of black bears stealing all their hunny, but that might not be true at all, after all, they weren't particularly aggressive towards her. They built a nest in the soap dispenser near the goat enclosure and one of them stung Gallop. I'm not sure what's going to happen but I want to put the thing in a trebuchet and launch it at a Hezbollah meeting.
Other than that, not too exciting. The flickers were released, replaced with red-something woodpeckers, the goslings and cygnets and snapping turtles were still there.
Burning Question: Does this ever happen to you: you look at your watch or a clock or your cellphone to check the time, and then have to check it ten seconds later because you weren't paying attention or whatever?
The raccoon room will not see raccoon use for reasons that have to do with reintegrating them into the wild after they leave us.
One of the turtles we got was at least 85 years old. See, it was adopted when its owner was 12 and she recently passed away at 95. I got a good look when the table sort of collapsed: his plastron is tiny, one of his forelegs was amputated after an infection, he was a bit bloated. I did the worst ever Yoda impression and said "When 85 years you reach, look as good you will not, hm."
I've never seen Skinky move so fast. Christina interpreted it as "freedom, beautiful freedom!.. I hope those wasps don't sting him." There was a sunshower as that happened and back inside the reptiles went.
Christina heard that they tend to be aggressive around the color black because of black bears stealing all their hunny, but that might not be true at all, after all, they weren't particularly aggressive towards her. They built a nest in the soap dispenser near the goat enclosure and one of them stung Gallop. I'm not sure what's going to happen but I want to put the thing in a trebuchet and launch it at a Hezbollah meeting.
Other than that, not too exciting. The flickers were released, replaced with red-something woodpeckers, the goslings and cygnets and snapping turtles were still there.
Burning Question: Does this ever happen to you: you look at your watch or a clock or your cellphone to check the time, and then have to check it ten seconds later because you weren't paying attention or whatever?
