going through changes
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yamamanamaWe have a gray fox. Miranda says he's not looking so hot but he is cute. The gray fox is circling. It may be neurological or it may be a response to stress so we're just going to watch him and see what happens. The red fox has mange most likely. Gray foxes are Urocyon cinereoargenteus which means something like taildog ashysilver. They were the most common fox in the eastern US until deforestation allowed the red fox, Vulpes vulpes, Latin for Fox fox, to take over. It's amazing how mapped out mammalian evolution is, but it's hard to tell if these guys get lumped in with the true foxes or the basal canids. For the record, the other basal canids are the bat-eared fox of Africa and the tanuki of east Asia. Anyone who's touched a copy of Mario 3 knows what a tanuki is, or at least, they know that a tanuki is some kind of animal that is either a raccoon of some sorts or some kind of animal that superficially resembles a raccoon. But canids originated in North America so it would make a whole lot of sense if there were basal canids in North America.
Jack couldn't be fucked to post any pictures of the gray fox he may have on the wildlife center's facebook page and I can't be fucked to find out who else might have it and nobody can be fucked to use the #newenglandwildlifecenter tag on Instagram or Twitter. He's like "whatever, have a picture of an opossum instead." I know, opossums are cute, but gray foxes aren't omnipresent in spring and summer.
But here's the woodchuck.
And here are some skunks we had a while ago.
We're going to get a fisher cat soon. Matt describes them as "bear-badgers" or "cat-rodents" except they're actually related to weasels and martens. Matt describes their call as like screaming babies.
At the place Sarah worked before coming to Massachusetts, they had a lynx. The FBI was trying to catch a felon in Canada and they just found a lynx chanined up in the hotel room he was hiding in. I always mix up Sarah and Lianne. They're both from New Jersey, after all. But I can tell them apart physically; Sarah's hair is longer and has raspberry-colored dye in it. I also mix up Taylor and Anja and sometimes Emily for good measure. Emily will be around for a while, while Taylor is finishing her intership. Miranda says that maybe she'll be back but if she's anything like Emma or Katie, probably not.
"We're trying not to damage hawks."
One of the gauntlets was missing so I checked admissions because why not, laundry because someone might have thrown it in with the laundry by mistake though I didn't do a thorough search of the buckets, surgery because maybe we did surgery on a hawk, didn't find it, and Tiffany told me it might be in radiology, which makes sense because maybe we did x-rays on a hawk, and lo and behold, it was on the side table in there.
Things were a mess. In other words, don't be like Taylor.
A few days before, a raccoon snuck up on Primrose and Falco escaped and chicken sprinted away and Christina, who isn't quite new but doesn't normally come on Mondays and wears a pendant that looks a lot like a raccoon leaf, was like "your feet don't flatten the right way! Stop!"
Tiffany says that if we put gull food in a yogurt cup, the gull is going to eat that yogurt cup and then we'll have a dead gull.
The rabbit drowned or maybe got hypothermia.
A blood clot may have paralyzed a chipmunk.
Hunter is now Tucker.
Tucker's scarf matches his eyes.
Two people brought an orphaned baby turkey with them. The guy's shirt said that tacocat spelled backwards is tacocat. And Otto spelled backwards is ottO. But Shemp spelled backwards is not hemp, no matter what Otto tells us.
Evelyn is a volunteer who was actually merely around to pick up her pet tree frog, which is nice because we had no crickets. I can't remember her friend's name but it was neither Francine nor Rose. I didn't get her other friend's name but it may have been Francine or Rose.
Tiffany described it as "get creative with fish strips for raccoon pals." Mice are reserved for raptors and snakes, the rest of the meat-eaters get extra fish.
We had no chicks but we had lamb patties, which I guess the animals will eat raw. We had two big rats thawing in the sink and she says that cutting them up is easier with knives than scissors, especially since the knives were just sharpened a few days ago. Gloop, go the innards.
Kendall asked me if the lamb I got looked like that. Nope, it was chunks in vindaloo. And then she asked about good Indian restaurants and I wanted to describe what I had at Mumbai Spice to her but couldn't because the internet wasn't working there as is typical and it turns out she doesn't know about Kendall Square. Also, she says Lime Leaf is good and that means something because she's picky. She doesn't know what Jamaican food tastes like because she doesn't eat meat.
No wonder she likes Ethiopian and Indian food so much. And Thai, especially when they accommodate. Normally papaya salad has fish sauce in it. She loves the presentation of Ethiopian food and can see where I'm coming from when I compare it to Indian. She wonders what Senegalese food is like; there's a place near the Mass Ave T station. Once she was in Puerto Rico and she had a curry that was in some edible bowl.
She, and by she, I mean Anya or the Christina who doesn't wear a leaf pendant or I don't know, someone who isn't Miranda or Kendall or Sarah or Primrose, gets bored eating mangoes because they're so big. She hates the texture of bananas but she likes the taste and I feel that way about apples. She mistook cat food for Fruity Pebbles. They were brighter and less wet then and she was hungry.
Primrose has blue hair and tattoos of triangles on her wrist and cherry blossoms on her forearms and a mandala on her elbow.
Once Taylor ate a scorpion and she says it tastes like a potato chip. Harry's eaten scorpions; once in a lollipop and once at the bottom of a bottle. Miranda ate a grasshopper in Spanish class once for extra credit. I say Miranda but it might have been Sarah. It wasn't Kendall, I can tell you that. Miranda doesn't want Italian cookies because she never knows what flavor she's going to get but she ate a grasshopper.
Sara has a baby beardie.
Tiffany told me to just yell "Stephanie!" and see who responds.
For some reason, I thought he was a cotemporary of Dvorak and Smetana. And in some ways he was; he coexisted with Dvorak for 14 years. In other ways, he wasn't; he fled the Nazis after their invasion of France.
burning question: We all know Tommy Wiseau would make a better president than Trump but is he eligible to be president?
Jack couldn't be fucked to post any pictures of the gray fox he may have on the wildlife center's facebook page and I can't be fucked to find out who else might have it and nobody can be fucked to use the #newenglandwildlifecenter tag on Instagram or Twitter. He's like "whatever, have a picture of an opossum instead." I know, opossums are cute, but gray foxes aren't omnipresent in spring and summer.
But here's the woodchuck.
And here are some skunks we had a while ago.
We're going to get a fisher cat soon. Matt describes them as "bear-badgers" or "cat-rodents" except they're actually related to weasels and martens. Matt describes their call as like screaming babies.
At the place Sarah worked before coming to Massachusetts, they had a lynx. The FBI was trying to catch a felon in Canada and they just found a lynx chanined up in the hotel room he was hiding in. I always mix up Sarah and Lianne. They're both from New Jersey, after all. But I can tell them apart physically; Sarah's hair is longer and has raspberry-colored dye in it. I also mix up Taylor and Anja and sometimes Emily for good measure. Emily will be around for a while, while Taylor is finishing her intership. Miranda says that maybe she'll be back but if she's anything like Emma or Katie, probably not.
"We're trying not to damage hawks."
One of the gauntlets was missing so I checked admissions because why not, laundry because someone might have thrown it in with the laundry by mistake though I didn't do a thorough search of the buckets, surgery because maybe we did surgery on a hawk, didn't find it, and Tiffany told me it might be in radiology, which makes sense because maybe we did x-rays on a hawk, and lo and behold, it was on the side table in there.
Things were a mess. In other words, don't be like Taylor.
A few days before, a raccoon snuck up on Primrose and Falco escaped and chicken sprinted away and Christina, who isn't quite new but doesn't normally come on Mondays and wears a pendant that looks a lot like a raccoon leaf, was like "your feet don't flatten the right way! Stop!"
Tiffany says that if we put gull food in a yogurt cup, the gull is going to eat that yogurt cup and then we'll have a dead gull.
The rabbit drowned or maybe got hypothermia.
A blood clot may have paralyzed a chipmunk.
Hunter is now Tucker.
Tucker's scarf matches his eyes.
Two people brought an orphaned baby turkey with them. The guy's shirt said that tacocat spelled backwards is tacocat. And Otto spelled backwards is ottO. But Shemp spelled backwards is not hemp, no matter what Otto tells us.
Evelyn is a volunteer who was actually merely around to pick up her pet tree frog, which is nice because we had no crickets. I can't remember her friend's name but it was neither Francine nor Rose. I didn't get her other friend's name but it may have been Francine or Rose.
Tiffany described it as "get creative with fish strips for raccoon pals." Mice are reserved for raptors and snakes, the rest of the meat-eaters get extra fish.
We had no chicks but we had lamb patties, which I guess the animals will eat raw. We had two big rats thawing in the sink and she says that cutting them up is easier with knives than scissors, especially since the knives were just sharpened a few days ago. Gloop, go the innards.
Kendall asked me if the lamb I got looked like that. Nope, it was chunks in vindaloo. And then she asked about good Indian restaurants and I wanted to describe what I had at Mumbai Spice to her but couldn't because the internet wasn't working there as is typical and it turns out she doesn't know about Kendall Square. Also, she says Lime Leaf is good and that means something because she's picky. She doesn't know what Jamaican food tastes like because she doesn't eat meat.
No wonder she likes Ethiopian and Indian food so much. And Thai, especially when they accommodate. Normally papaya salad has fish sauce in it. She loves the presentation of Ethiopian food and can see where I'm coming from when I compare it to Indian. She wonders what Senegalese food is like; there's a place near the Mass Ave T station. Once she was in Puerto Rico and she had a curry that was in some edible bowl.
She, and by she, I mean Anya or the Christina who doesn't wear a leaf pendant or I don't know, someone who isn't Miranda or Kendall or Sarah or Primrose, gets bored eating mangoes because they're so big. She hates the texture of bananas but she likes the taste and I feel that way about apples. She mistook cat food for Fruity Pebbles. They were brighter and less wet then and she was hungry.
Primrose has blue hair and tattoos of triangles on her wrist and cherry blossoms on her forearms and a mandala on her elbow.
Once Taylor ate a scorpion and she says it tastes like a potato chip. Harry's eaten scorpions; once in a lollipop and once at the bottom of a bottle. Miranda ate a grasshopper in Spanish class once for extra credit. I say Miranda but it might have been Sarah. It wasn't Kendall, I can tell you that. Miranda doesn't want Italian cookies because she never knows what flavor she's going to get but she ate a grasshopper.
Sara has a baby beardie.
Tiffany told me to just yell "Stephanie!" and see who responds.
For some reason, I thought he was a cotemporary of Dvorak and Smetana. And in some ways he was; he coexisted with Dvorak for 14 years. In other ways, he wasn't; he fled the Nazis after their invasion of France.
burning question: We all know Tommy Wiseau would make a better president than Trump but is he eligible to be president?
