Day 91 - Rehabilitation

Today was rehabilitation day. Rather then starting off the day with feedings I actually spent a good 10-20 minutes before 8am to help our executive director load up the canoe and various other canoe raffle supplies so she could set up everything at the farmers market. After this I head upstairs and got ready for the day before returning back down to start my rehabilitation stuff.

I got to feed squirrels today which meant feeding them formula and giving them food trays. Either squirrels later (3 Gray, 5 Red) and they all had clean cages, new food, and were formula fed. I then moved on to mice and cleaned/fed them. Some had little babies! Of course I snapped a picture.

I watched our three new resident snapping turtles also get fed minnows. It's kind of fun watching them go after the minnow because they move so slow then suddenly the minnow is gone in one quick gulp. The two little snapping turtles were just too cute to watch because of how small they were; they ate the minnows in bits and pieces.

Once mice were finished I moved on to other tasks like dishes and going outside to collect pinecones, branches, and berries for our squirrels. I only got so far when an intern came out saying that we had a mountain lion cub rescue. I knew mountain lion cubs were so rare so of course I was excited but it ended up being a prank. This is what us interns do best; particularly the one!!!!! Pranking people!!!

I forget what else happened before lunch besides 11am and 12pm squirrel feedings. For lunch we went across the street as a rehab team (two interns, two rehabbers) and go chinese! Tasted AMAZING and once again I left with a food coma. Chinese is too good to not eat. My weakness.

We then returned to work after, threw in some shenaningans involving clothes, and then did 2pm feedings before grabbing our snowy and great horned owl for their vet appointment next door. The vet was too busy so we simply put them back afterwards and ended up cleaning or feeding when necessary. We actually started closing tasks early because everyone wanted to be finished early so once these were done, 4pm feedings were taken care of, snowys bandages were taken care of, and 5pm feeding was finished we finally called the day to an end.

The other rehab intern took phone for the night (YAY!) and so all that's left is 8pm feedings and letting a rehabbers dogs out via request. As for the rest of the night I am thinking relaxing and maybe heading to bed early again to catch up on any possible lost sleep and to hopefully sleep off this back pain that has been bothering me the last three days.