EFRC report: RIP Bubbles
Bubbles leopard was the last survivor of Operation Snowplow. an FBI operation that took down a ring of people who sold "canned hunts" and meat from endangered species. A bunch of cats were legally evidence in a complicated case and were kept somewhere until the trials were finished, and then the government didn't need them so they needed homes. Our records are that we got Bubbles in 2006. We don't know how old he was, beyond that he was an adult leopard. My memory is that Operation Snowplow went on for 7 years. In any case, he was extremely old, and two years ago he was in severe renal failure. He hung on somehow until Saturday. Rebecca thinks he'd had a seizure the day before he died. No one was there when he went, so we don't know if he had another one. We named him "Bubbles" ironically, because he had the nasty disposition that I've seen in most leopards, but at the end, they say he was happy to be in a warm, safe place in the clinic and tolerated some handling including being given fluids without sedation.
Today it was almost 40 -- which is like 30 degrees warmer than it was a couple of weeks ago. Why did it feel so frickin' cold? We did the normal cleaning for Tuesday, but we had no visitors and no extra tasks, so we finished early. Nobody had motivation to do anything more. I talked to Rebecca in the office for a while after, which would be a lot more sensible than standing around in the parking lot talking.
Kya sounds normal today, but still seems to have some infection. She's been very bad about taking her meds, today included. Pandora was a good girl for me. Cassius is still hanging on. George seems to have bitten off the very end of his tail.
Today it was almost 40 -- which is like 30 degrees warmer than it was a couple of weeks ago. Why did it feel so frickin' cold? We did the normal cleaning for Tuesday, but we had no visitors and no extra tasks, so we finished early. Nobody had motivation to do anything more. I talked to Rebecca in the office for a while after, which would be a lot more sensible than standing around in the parking lot talking.
Kya sounds normal today, but still seems to have some infection. She's been very bad about taking her meds, today included. Pandora was a good girl for me. Cassius is still hanging on. George seems to have bitten off the very end of his tail.