We had a turtle come in who had swallowed a fish hook. The end of the fishing line was tied to a dock, and she was stuck for 2 days before someone rescued her and brought her in. The vet took an xray to see where it was, and saw that she was chock full of eggs! The vet performed surgery, but she started hemoraging. He left friday night saying he wasn't sure if she was alive or not, he'd come back in the morning to check! Apparently with turtles its hard to tell. Well, Saturday morning she was walking around looking fine, so we are going to release her with the fish hook still inside her, so she can lay her eggs.
The nudist owl should be released this week, he passed his live prey test. All of the canadian gosslings now look like geese! We have over 50 waterfowl right now - something like 40 ducklings! They are quite adorable as usual. We also have a few wood ducks.
This is what a wood duck looks like grown up, ours are still quite young (Click here for pictures of ducklings).
We got down to only 6 raccoons being tube fed, with the rest up on the hill, learning how to be adults. Usually we have a cap at 40 raccoons, but we just extended the limit, as we've been having a few orphaned babies trickling in that we don't have room for, and right now some of our runs, usually reserved for animals like Bears and Coyotes have room. So we are now accepting up to 58 or so. When I tube fed this weekend, I saw two little raccoons in a cage that was totally clean, spic and span - no spilled food or water or smeared feces, and they were just sleeping in the back of the corner. I knew they must be new to us - since the rest are such messy little guys.
For some reason we have been getting in a ton of Northern Flickers. A bird I didn't know before Paws.
They are all cute - perching on their logs and pecking up their food... BUT they are total escape artists! Even just trying to put new food into their cage, one has gotten out on me. Catching them is not fun... And it seems like we just keep getting them. A lot of them we think are window strikes - so some of them are healthy once they get over the shock. Then they get to move up to the hill - to a big room, and they fly madly back and forth overhead when you go in there.
We also have a few tiny birds, like wrens and chickadees. That I think I've finally figured out how to catch and hold them for meds. And in the ward (where the sicker animals start) we have another young hawk. He's super cute and hungry. When you put his mice in he eats them right away. You'll throw one in while he's swallowing another, and he immediatly stomps on it with one tallon, and holds it ready, until he's done w/ his first one (these are already dead mice).
Up in the raptor mews (bigger rooms outside they can fly in) the Barn own we assist fed is doing better and flying now, but still not eating, so we still shove mice down his throat. We have a young bald eagle - so young his head is black. And he lies down a lot, cause he's so heavy and his legs don't support him well yet. When you go in to feed or clean he honks at you! ("Hey, get out of my palace!"). We also have a falcon and a hawk up there, and two great horned owls (the nudist one and a fluffy younger one).
Oh! we also have a mountain beaver. Its like a giant plump rodent! so funny looking (from wikipedia):
And finally - the bears are still super cute and active. This week their enrichment involved ropes tied to the ceiling and they loved them! swinging and biting and chewing on them. So adorable. Here is a video of the actual cubs at Paws, borrowed from the paws blog (http://blog.paws.org/). Watch the little guy get down from the carrier:
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