i carry your heart with me (i carry it in)
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yamamanamaUsing tweezers to grab mealworms is totally unnecessary but it makes Sam feel professional. Cockroaches, on the other hand, need to be grabbed with tweezers.
Anna will miss the Sassy Sam Days.
Using meloxicam twice a day on mammals kills their kidneys but who needs kidneys, right? Jacob said that Jacob was bleeding out the anus and Matt was confused and thought he was talking in third person but one of our patients was a guinea pig named Jacob.
Vikki says to show the rabies submission skunk's head to the baby skunkies and shout THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T GET YOUR SHOTS at them.
Jacob holds things, including inanimate objects like bananas, like they're going to run away.
Matt was late to his own rounds. "Your fun fact for the day is that Rob isn't here."
Marco suggested giving the blue jay to Falco because he's too nice.
Danielle thought that she could smell skunk but the skunks are in an outdoors enclosure so that horrible smell in the medical corridor was probably just raccoon laundry.
A hawk was perched on Falco's enclosure. Cassie noticed it and thought it was an escaped patient and I thought it was wild, but it turns out it was one of ours that we released and was still hanging around.
Danielle was a volunteer a few years ago but doesn't remember some of the newer things.
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Someone brought four papillon-chihuahua puppies who were themselves the children of papillon-chihuahua mixes. I got to hold Graham Cracker, who is the dominant of the litter. One of them has a deformed foreleg so he was stumbling around.
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Like most herons we get, this one died soon after we got it.
We opted to take apart the goose because it's easier and discovered a gaping hole in the side of his sternum and what we thought was bile.
"Where's this guy from?"
"Canada." Get it, because he's a Canada goose. A pause. "He was ours."
He was really skinny and you could feel his keel.
We can sex it by size or color sometimes, by looking at their DNA which WE can't do, or by looking for reproductive parts. We think this goose is a boy because it had kidney-looking things, testes, and if it wasn't so dead, we could confirm that it had a penis. Only waterfowl have those. And I think ratites but there aren't any ratites here. Oh, yeah, and mammals, obviously.
We got to see inside of the goose's stomach and by then, whatever he ate was unrecognizable. The lungs are hot pink. We passed around his heart.
I was a bit mistaken when I said their coracoid bone is our clavicle. The clavicle is fused in birds and it's the wishbone, the coracoid bone has no human equivalent and it attaches the scapula to the sternum.
The carpals and metacarpals are fused together, as are the tarsals and metatarsals. The alula is the thumb.
This guy had blood feathers on his wings. These feathers have really thick and dark shafts and blood vessels running through them. On birds that aren't, you know, dead, you have to be careful not to break them. When they're dead, it doesn't matter.
I can't remember her name but she wasn't really dressed for wildlife center stuff and she had pink hair.
Good news, everyone! The grey fox's tests for parvo and distemper came back negative so he's going out to live with other foxes.
burning question: do tektites have to breathe oxygen, and if so, how do they survive locked up in the Water Temple?
Anna will miss the Sassy Sam Days.
Using meloxicam twice a day on mammals kills their kidneys but who needs kidneys, right? Jacob said that Jacob was bleeding out the anus and Matt was confused and thought he was talking in third person but one of our patients was a guinea pig named Jacob.
Vikki says to show the rabies submission skunk's head to the baby skunkies and shout THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T GET YOUR SHOTS at them.
Jacob holds things, including inanimate objects like bananas, like they're going to run away.
Matt was late to his own rounds. "Your fun fact for the day is that Rob isn't here."
Marco suggested giving the blue jay to Falco because he's too nice.
Danielle thought that she could smell skunk but the skunks are in an outdoors enclosure so that horrible smell in the medical corridor was probably just raccoon laundry.
A hawk was perched on Falco's enclosure. Cassie noticed it and thought it was an escaped patient and I thought it was wild, but it turns out it was one of ours that we released and was still hanging around.
Danielle was a volunteer a few years ago but doesn't remember some of the newer things.
***
Someone brought four papillon-chihuahua puppies who were themselves the children of papillon-chihuahua mixes. I got to hold Graham Cracker, who is the dominant of the litter. One of them has a deformed foreleg so he was stumbling around.
***
Like most herons we get, this one died soon after we got it.
We opted to take apart the goose because it's easier and discovered a gaping hole in the side of his sternum and what we thought was bile.
"Where's this guy from?"
"Canada." Get it, because he's a Canada goose. A pause. "He was ours."
He was really skinny and you could feel his keel.
We can sex it by size or color sometimes, by looking at their DNA which WE can't do, or by looking for reproductive parts. We think this goose is a boy because it had kidney-looking things, testes, and if it wasn't so dead, we could confirm that it had a penis. Only waterfowl have those. And I think ratites but there aren't any ratites here. Oh, yeah, and mammals, obviously.
We got to see inside of the goose's stomach and by then, whatever he ate was unrecognizable. The lungs are hot pink. We passed around his heart.
I was a bit mistaken when I said their coracoid bone is our clavicle. The clavicle is fused in birds and it's the wishbone, the coracoid bone has no human equivalent and it attaches the scapula to the sternum.
The carpals and metacarpals are fused together, as are the tarsals and metatarsals. The alula is the thumb.
This guy had blood feathers on his wings. These feathers have really thick and dark shafts and blood vessels running through them. On birds that aren't, you know, dead, you have to be careful not to break them. When they're dead, it doesn't matter.
I can't remember her name but she wasn't really dressed for wildlife center stuff and she had pink hair.
Good news, everyone! The grey fox's tests for parvo and distemper came back negative so he's going out to live with other foxes.
burning question: do tektites have to breathe oxygen, and if so, how do they survive locked up in the Water Temple?
