dry and disconsolate
Apr. 19th, 2016 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaHere are some more things that actually happened last week that I would have just edited in had people not already seen the entry and had I not thought of it several days after posting.
1. One time, flooding in enrichment was so bad that water actually seeped into med ward. For those of you unfamiliar with the layout of the wildlife center, enrichment and med ward are across from each other. This makes it sounds less messy than it actually is. The door to med ward is near the door to the hospital corridor, and the door to enrichment is around the corridor.
2. Turtles return to the same place to lay their eggs every year, which works, I guess.
Today, we received two batches of raccoons, one all-male batch brought by a guy who was taking care of them for a month after the mother died, which is a bad idea for many reasons.
Tiffany found the modo dead when we were going to medicate it.
Jack and Matt found a turkey egg (it's about the size of a chicken's or mallard's, mostly cream-white and dotted with specks of brown) somewhere and put in the incubator to see what will happen, even though it's probably no longer viable.
Tiffany had frozen rats and chicks thawing in the sink and took a picture of it with the caption "worst jacuzzi ever."
Once an owl died because it ate towel, so we use newspapers to line owl cages instead. Owls really aren't that smart. The owl with one eye was being "a feisty little jerk" so he got to be in a selfie with Tiffany. He was angry afterwards, as if to say "I didn't say you could take pictures of me. Rude!"
He made a noise that reminded me of a dog's whimper.
The red-tailed hawk is a diva, says Tiffany.
I was tasked to find a couple of tiny cockroaches for the salamander. 1. It's like frigging Indiana Jones in there. 2. It's very hard to tell what's a tiny cockroach and what's just a molting. 3. Sam is disgusted by the cockroaches. 4. But I'd rather deal with cockroaches than Nazis.
I really thought Zofia would be around. I thought there'd be more people visiting or volunteering too, because it's a state holiday and a day off from school. On the other hand, marathon traffic. I don't have much to say because I spent a good portion of it cleaning up old paperwork.
burning question: how much do editorial cartoonists make and how often do they find themselves ducking bullets?
1. One time, flooding in enrichment was so bad that water actually seeped into med ward. For those of you unfamiliar with the layout of the wildlife center, enrichment and med ward are across from each other. This makes it sounds less messy than it actually is. The door to med ward is near the door to the hospital corridor, and the door to enrichment is around the corridor.
2. Turtles return to the same place to lay their eggs every year, which works, I guess.
Today, we received two batches of raccoons, one all-male batch brought by a guy who was taking care of them for a month after the mother died, which is a bad idea for many reasons.
Tiffany found the modo dead when we were going to medicate it.
Jack and Matt found a turkey egg (it's about the size of a chicken's or mallard's, mostly cream-white and dotted with specks of brown) somewhere and put in the incubator to see what will happen, even though it's probably no longer viable.
Tiffany had frozen rats and chicks thawing in the sink and took a picture of it with the caption "worst jacuzzi ever."
Once an owl died because it ate towel, so we use newspapers to line owl cages instead. Owls really aren't that smart. The owl with one eye was being "a feisty little jerk" so he got to be in a selfie with Tiffany. He was angry afterwards, as if to say "I didn't say you could take pictures of me. Rude!"
He made a noise that reminded me of a dog's whimper.
The red-tailed hawk is a diva, says Tiffany.
I was tasked to find a couple of tiny cockroaches for the salamander. 1. It's like frigging Indiana Jones in there. 2. It's very hard to tell what's a tiny cockroach and what's just a molting. 3. Sam is disgusted by the cockroaches. 4. But I'd rather deal with cockroaches than Nazis.
I really thought Zofia would be around. I thought there'd be more people visiting or volunteering too, because it's a state holiday and a day off from school. On the other hand, marathon traffic. I don't have much to say because I spent a good portion of it cleaning up old paperwork.
burning question: how much do editorial cartoonists make and how often do they find themselves ducking bullets?
