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Someone named the turkey Bob. And he died, of course. The lead poisoning and fractured leg didn't help. At least Jack posted a picture of him before he died.
As a precaution, I've given all the raccoons secret true names that I will not speak; in fact, they are so secret that even I've forgotten them. But rest assured that they're something that nobody will ever say.

The grumpy opossum was released. One of the biggest threats to opossums is the automobile. That's pretty obvious. They're not the brightest and their normal defense mechanism doesn't work. Another threat is frostbite, and a few years back when we had all the blizzards, a bunch of opossums we got had gangrenous feet or necrosis or crusty ears, because the feet are bare.

We have a bat in his stead. It came out of hibernation too early and so we're taking care of it until it gets warm again. We are safe to assume it's a big brown bat, as little brown bats were all but annihilated by white nose.

The squirrel with a shattered pelvis went to the Great Oak Tree in the Sky. I'm pretty sure Yggdrasil is an ash but whatever. We briefly had a chipmunk. He didn't make it either.

The Cooper's hawk batmaned up to the cage ceiling and got the food up there so we released him. I'm pretty sure Batman can't fly. He can breathe in space, but he can't fly. Maybe if he had a jetpack or if he sprayed himself with some Ground Repellent Bat Spray.

A red-tailed hawk has an avulsion on his face and so we have to intubate him to put him down so we can work on it.

Primrose is having dreams about the wildlife center. Specifically, she was cleaning. I dream about the wildlife center too but not this time; a few days ago, I listened to so much Stretch Princess that I dreamt of Leah and barred owls and then I listened to so much Tori Amos that I dreamt of Leah, and then I dreamt of finding a copy of Through The Heart with notes scrawled in it and getting it for Ashley. Dreams do come true for Primrose anyway, as we were cleaning out med ward. Jen's philosophy is that if you put things aside because you don't know what they're for, they just pile up and get everywhere, while if you throw them away, they don't pile up.
Nebulizers aerosolize medication, which is not as cool as what a device called a nebulizer should do. We're not sure if we use them for anything but reptiles. Once Primrose was nebulized for the flu or a cold and it just made her feel like she was going to cough up more than just a lung.
Meanwhile, a rodo got in a fight with his reflection and Emily knocked down a cup of markers and said "oh, sugar."

There was a butterfly (most likely Colias sp. or Pieris sp. Probably the former as it was more yellow than white and it also sat still for more than a femtosecond) in Enrichment and I don't know where it came from and I don't know how it got there, as it's far too cold and far too early for butterflies. Maybe a caterpillar snuck in and built a chrysalis. I decided to leave it in there as it's far too cold for butterflies outside and I am about as likely to catch a Pieris sp. as Blogspot is to actually enforce their terms of service and delete a popular but stalky member. That is to say, if taking him outside was feasible, I'd probably waste several minutes trying to catch him.
I remember when I was taking a summer class (I say "summer" but it was really late May) and many of the lampposts and lampposts were covered in caterpillars. I know the basics of the lepidopteran life cycle: caterpillars hatch from eggs and they eat and eat and they'll eventually build a cocoon or chrysalis and from that an adult with functioning reproductive parts emerges and eventually mates and lays some eggs. I definitely don't have the timing of these things down, though I'd imagine they lay eggs in late summer and they hatch when it gets warm again.

TJ's a huge fan of Rick and Morty and also Bob's Burgers and Archer and BoJack Horseman and I brought up Steins;Gate and said I'm at the point in which it stops being funny.

Fruit flies are not vegetables. Jen says that she's a vegetarian so she'll eat only things that photosynthesize. Jen can eat coral because it has photosynthetic algae. No, that's an oversimplification. She can eat mushrooms, for instance.
Just don't eat sprouts from swampy areas, or else you'll get liver flukes and they have thorny bits on their sides and like to hang out in your bile duct.

We had good news despite Trump gutting the EPA.
Beavers are being reintroduced to Britain after being extirpated in the Middle Ages. A dog was found after 12 days after falling into a valley. A baby Kordofan giraffe was born.

burning question: why the fuck are we cutting Meals On Wheels?