EFRC report: Oops
I signed in at 9:10 and met Jerri and Haleigh at the Spice Girls, where the drain hole on the big water tank had stripped out and the plug would not stay in. The guys ended up taking the tank and trying a quick welding job, but it leaked. I don't know if a less quick welding job would have done better; I don't know anything about welding. Then the keepers wanted to take the tank that wouldn't hold water out, because the tigers were likely to use it as a toy, but Joe (who'd barely been willing to allow the welding) said no.
On to the clinc, where Shenzi was very exuberant and fun, but being pretty well behaved with her teeth. Unfortunately, she seems to completely unerstand how the door works now. She knows she can pull it open. She even recognizes that the lock is what keeps it from moving when she sticks that pointy little snoot through the wires to grab and pull. She's also really quick and pretty sneaky. I was trying to get the pile of stinky straw I'd collected out, and zip! she was out in the main clinic building. Fortunately the outside doors were all closed, so she got to run around the large area for a couple of minutes before they herded her to where I was able to grab her and put her back. Rebecca told me later that she does get to have play time in the big area frequently and I shouldn't be too worried about it, but I still see it as a big fuckup on my part even if everything is OK in the end.
We did the field first. Nobody had bone, we were feeding turkey, and we were trying to hurry, so we were just throwing food over the doors. Except that when I was feeding Rose, I did have the cage unlocked... and then after I put the food in, I locked up and then opened the slide gate without being OKed. Again, no actual harm done; I had locked the door, and even if I hadn't, locking the door after the cat had come in wouldn't be a problem in Rose's case. But again, a fuckup on my part, and something I have maybe done once or twice since we started having a supervisor check locks like 10 years ago, but not more than that.
I managed the rest of the day without doing anything terrribly dumb. Despite aspirations of finishing early, it was around 3 when I finished cleaning Starlord and rejoined the others as we got to Pandora. We paused a minute to fetch meds so that Pan would get her meds before she ate. Apparently she's been bad lately but she took them just fine for me. I cleaned the Magic Sisters, who were much more cooperative about all coming in than they used to be, assued Belle Fille that she's a good girl since she'd already been fed, and had Nemo walk in through the chute when I came up, Chloe follow him, and then Chloe leave before I could get the slide gate down. She came back pretty quickly, but it should be noted that she was the difficult one today and Neems was a very good boy.
We got back to the building around 3:45 and I got a call that turned out to be mom's new broker, telling me that her old broker is retiring and that there were a couple of issues to take care of. (That sounds sorta sus when I put it that way, but she knew far too many details for there to be any question that it was real.) Still, it took long enough to turn that into scheduling another call for tomorrow when I'm at my computer that I missed all of the West. I got there in time to tell Kimbo he's a good boy and say hi to Zoe as I walked by.
Then I rode along as Jerri went to give Ana her meds and take care of Paws, and spent some more time being coyote furniture (without letting her escape this time). I got to visit Hershey for a bit, and then we were closing up and leaving, but when I got to the office, we had a crisis because Ginger, one of the office cats, was missing. After turning the building upside down looking in every place we coudl think of, Rebecca finally found her -- in the stove (!). Apparently there's no back panel on the stove, so she can get into the pan drawer -- and has done so before, so maybe they should have checked there sooner?
I have jury duty next week, so unless I don't have to actually come in Tuesday, I will miss next week. I'm planning on coming Sunday the week after, but I already had plans for this weekend before I even found out that I have juiry duty.
On to the clinc, where Shenzi was very exuberant and fun, but being pretty well behaved with her teeth. Unfortunately, she seems to completely unerstand how the door works now. She knows she can pull it open. She even recognizes that the lock is what keeps it from moving when she sticks that pointy little snoot through the wires to grab and pull. She's also really quick and pretty sneaky. I was trying to get the pile of stinky straw I'd collected out, and zip! she was out in the main clinic building. Fortunately the outside doors were all closed, so she got to run around the large area for a couple of minutes before they herded her to where I was able to grab her and put her back. Rebecca told me later that she does get to have play time in the big area frequently and I shouldn't be too worried about it, but I still see it as a big fuckup on my part even if everything is OK in the end.
We did the field first. Nobody had bone, we were feeding turkey, and we were trying to hurry, so we were just throwing food over the doors. Except that when I was feeding Rose, I did have the cage unlocked... and then after I put the food in, I locked up and then opened the slide gate without being OKed. Again, no actual harm done; I had locked the door, and even if I hadn't, locking the door after the cat had come in wouldn't be a problem in Rose's case. But again, a fuckup on my part, and something I have maybe done once or twice since we started having a supervisor check locks like 10 years ago, but not more than that.
I managed the rest of the day without doing anything terrribly dumb. Despite aspirations of finishing early, it was around 3 when I finished cleaning Starlord and rejoined the others as we got to Pandora. We paused a minute to fetch meds so that Pan would get her meds before she ate. Apparently she's been bad lately but she took them just fine for me. I cleaned the Magic Sisters, who were much more cooperative about all coming in than they used to be, assued Belle Fille that she's a good girl since she'd already been fed, and had Nemo walk in through the chute when I came up, Chloe follow him, and then Chloe leave before I could get the slide gate down. She came back pretty quickly, but it should be noted that she was the difficult one today and Neems was a very good boy.
We got back to the building around 3:45 and I got a call that turned out to be mom's new broker, telling me that her old broker is retiring and that there were a couple of issues to take care of. (That sounds sorta sus when I put it that way, but she knew far too many details for there to be any question that it was real.) Still, it took long enough to turn that into scheduling another call for tomorrow when I'm at my computer that I missed all of the West. I got there in time to tell Kimbo he's a good boy and say hi to Zoe as I walked by.
Then I rode along as Jerri went to give Ana her meds and take care of Paws, and spent some more time being coyote furniture (without letting her escape this time). I got to visit Hershey for a bit, and then we were closing up and leaving, but when I got to the office, we had a crisis because Ginger, one of the office cats, was missing. After turning the building upside down looking in every place we coudl think of, Rebecca finally found her -- in the stove (!). Apparently there's no back panel on the stove, so she can get into the pan drawer -- and has done so before, so maybe they should have checked there sooner?
I have jury duty next week, so unless I don't have to actually come in Tuesday, I will miss next week. I'm planning on coming Sunday the week after, but I already had plans for this weekend before I even found out that I have juiry duty.