Deb scheduled me to work Husbandry for the first time today. It’s nice to actually get paid for doing this work vs volunteering on my days off. I get pretty tired when I’m constantly working without a day off in between. One highlight of the day was putting away Sunset a very dominate, head strong, female bald eagle. This requires walking up her with a blanket to try to persuade her to go into her mew for the night. Roger one of our keepers had been taloned in the neck by Sunny a year or so earlier, so this procedure had to be done very carefully. One thing I have learned from working with the bald eagle is that you never back away from a bird who is trying to push you around, standing your ground is very important to show your dominance. It took a few minuets but I managed to get her into the mew without much of a problem.
Returning home to S.J., another piece of riffraff was being handcuffed and taken away in a police vehicle. Good grief people! That night every one gathered together around the big brown leather couch to play the vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board game we found in the commons area. Zach and I teamed up to battle against the forces of evil. It didn’t take long before the little boy who lives in another wing decided to join in on the action. Poor kid, growing up here. We didn’t mind him necessarily but when he started to knock on our doors late at night, we found him to be quite irritating.
-Me with the S.J. kid, Zach, Reece, Skyler, Miranda, Steve and Morgan.
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