Over break, my mother gave me the "You Need to be More Girly Talk." Julie also go the talk. I guess this means I need to start figuring out how to use makeup, wearing jewelry, and buying nice clothes. ::sigh:: what happened to the good old days when all you had to do was comb your hair before leaving the house...

New Years Resolution [a bit late ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm still alive. haha. just extremely busy ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

During morning feeding, we got a call about an injured seabird in a hotel lobby. We finished really fast and drove to pick the bird up. Turns out, it is a Newell’s Shearwater, an endangered bird. We took it back and examined it. It just banged it’s head, nothing serious. We let it sit for a while and then fed it fish rubbed with fish oil. The ( Read more... )

Christina and I went to the humane shelter to help out. Afterwards, Ann came with Stephanie to teach us how to do behavioral assessments on dogs. When she got there, we took Ann to see a ram that someone had brought in earlier. It was not able to stand and no one really knew what was wrong with it, not even the vet working there. Ann looked at the ( Read more... )

We got to see a rat neuter and a rabbit spay today. Rat neuters are more complicated than I had expected. You actually have to tie things off. Rabbit spays are rarely done because the rabbits usually die from being spayed. We’ll have to watch this one and see how she does. It was kind of funny watching the spay. Dr. Annette Timmel and Dr. Christine ( Read more... )

We dug up a Nene skeleton today. The Nene is Hawaii's state bird. It's also really endangered and so this was a rare opportunity ( Read more... )

This weekend, we decided to to see the active volcano here on Hawaii and circle the island ( Read more... )

Today when we let Colonel out into the aviary, Natalie noticed an explosion of feathers outside of the door. We initially thought that it was because Wiggy had come back and ate the dove that was inside of the aviary forever because it was too stupid to come out. It turns out that Kela was the one that caught it. We found the dove's body outside of ( Read more... )

Not too much going on today. We took the kittens to the humane society today. They both have URIs. It’s possible that they will be euthanized because of the URI, which makes me feel kind of guilty because we took them there. But I do think that the possibility of them being adopted makes it better than having them live in the mud miserably for the ( Read more... )