Wow, been gone a while. Been working a new job for a few weeks, being employed by Talking Talons, a non-profit oranization i volunteered for in middleschool
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Part of my job is manual labor; construction, deconstruction, moving things from point a to point b and then to point c and sometimes back to point a after that.
The other aspect of my job is animal care. This cosists of feeding and cleaning up after a variety of animals ranging from a red-tailed hawk to egyptian fruit bats. The fruit bats are kinda easy to feed, you mostly just make a giant fruit salad every day. But then the next day you have the joy of cleaning the cages of animals who eat almost nothing but fruit. The birds of prey are kinda interesting. They are for the most part fed human-bred rodents and quail, who are asphixiated then tossed in the freezer, then thawed, then eviscerated (well, kinda, we dont remove the bowels or internal organs, we just make an incision) and stuffed with powdered vitamin, and then placed lovingly in the bird mew. Clean up there is kinda fun, the birds are really pretty; the remains of the rodents rarely are. This morning i got to clean up pieces of mouse that had been left on a perch and had partially baked to it, when i tried to scrape off the blob o' mouse, i found that one end of the small intestine was caught on the perch, so the rest of the internal organs ended up swinging back and forth 18" down from that. Yeah, you have to get over the being squeamish part really quick.
The other aspect of my job is animal care. This cosists of feeding and cleaning up after a variety of animals ranging from a red-tailed hawk to egyptian fruit bats. The fruit bats are kinda easy to feed, you mostly just make a giant fruit salad every day. But then the next day you have the joy of cleaning the cages of animals who eat almost nothing but fruit. The birds of prey are kinda interesting. They are for the most part fed human-bred rodents and quail, who are asphixiated then tossed in the freezer, then thawed, then eviscerated (well, kinda, we dont remove the bowels or internal organs, we just make an incision) and stuffed with powdered vitamin, and then placed lovingly in the bird mew. Clean up there is kinda fun, the birds are really pretty; the remains of the rodents rarely are. This morning i got to clean up pieces of mouse that had been left on a perch and had partially baked to it, when i tried to scrape off the blob o' mouse, i found that one end of the small intestine was caught on the perch, so the rest of the internal organs ended up swinging back and forth 18" down from that. Yeah, you have to get over the being squeamish part really quick.
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