Corrections

Apparently I have made mistakes already, and I've only been a blogger for a few days. I apologize first to my good friend Emily. I mentioned I worked with 5 other interns but I mis-typed. She is an apprentice. I'm so excited to be working with her because she is also here for a year (instead of 6 months for all interns except vet tech), and she has the same birthday as me!! Can't wait for next year to celebrate with her. She also has an amazing cat named Fletcher. (I hope Em, if you're reading this, it is sufficient to cover my previous mistake!)

The past few days I have inhaled, and spilled, more bleach than I've ever seen in my life. My shirts are now spotted, and the IC rooms, which hold our raccoons and other vector species during quarantines, are finally empty. That means they have to be completely bleached down 3 times in order to be clean of distemper and the parvo virus which have been rampant in the clinic this year. We are also having a problem with ringworm in cats. Don't worry, ringworm is not a worm, it's a fungus. This means if I wake up with itchy patches on me, it could be chiggers, fleas, OR ringworm. Yay!

I've posted some new pictures, which I believe was the whole point of this post. I saw a peacock in a tree, which I thought odd and amazing. A question was asked from my last post and so I will explain what animal husbandry is. Right now, I am learning animal husbandry with my fellow new interns (and apprentice!). This means we are learning how to properly care for each species of animal. How to properly hold and restrain the animal, how to feed them, what they eat, when they eat, how to administer medications, and when to upgrade an animal to the next weight/size/release status. It's very new and sometimes fun and exciting, but most of it is cleaning. I'm not complaining, it's very therapeutic. However, I will be super excited to get trained in the vet clinic. There I will be monitoring the patient during surgeries, administering more meds, taking x-rays, analyzing fecal samples, and creating med sheets. Of course there's probably a million other things I'll be doing, but those are the main ones I've observed so far.

Well, hope you are all doing well and thanks to everyone who's responded on the blog or by email! It cheers me up a ton to know my friends and family still remember me down here in the heart of the South. Love and miss you all.