Day 19: It’s Raining Toads
A Sooty Tern was brought in. The people who brought it in thought that it had been shot. We looked at it, and we think that it just ran into something. It looks more like a laceration, so we may take the bird up for an x-ray tomorrow, or we may just end up releasing it after feeding it a few times and letting it rest for a while. We’re feeding it smelt smoothies and shrimp guts. Gross.
We cleaned out the flamingo pond today, washed out their feeding bowls, and gave them mud. Apparently, mud is erotic to flamingos. How weird. While we were cleaning, Ann was throwing toads around. She hit me with one. D:
We worked with Mr. Big a bit more. Today, we actually performed the penis cleaning that Ann was telling us about yesterday. It was…interesting. Then we all got to learn horseback riding again. We don’t ride with a saddle. Instead, we just use a pad. It’s really cool. Ann says that this way, you feel the horse more. So fun. I want to do it again.
I also got to disarticulate more mice today. The first time I ever did it was a disaster. The second time wasn’t much better. But I’m getting better. I’m not as fast as Ann, but at least I’m able to finally cleanly break their necks. >D
We cleaned out the flamingo pond today, washed out their feeding bowls, and gave them mud. Apparently, mud is erotic to flamingos. How weird. While we were cleaning, Ann was throwing toads around. She hit me with one. D:
We worked with Mr. Big a bit more. Today, we actually performed the penis cleaning that Ann was telling us about yesterday. It was…interesting. Then we all got to learn horseback riding again. We don’t ride with a saddle. Instead, we just use a pad. It’s really cool. Ann says that this way, you feel the horse more. So fun. I want to do it again.
I also got to disarticulate more mice today. The first time I ever did it was a disaster. The second time wasn’t much better. But I’m getting better. I’m not as fast as Ann, but at least I’m able to finally cleanly break their necks. >D