3:00 snapshot, #76.

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The point of this snapshot is that I was still doing my morning chores at 3 in the afternoon.

Both of my volunteers called in sick, and so I had to clean all the cages by myself. When I was about an hour and a half into it, I got a call saying that one of the teachers on an off-site program let a bird get loose in a school library. So a couple hours of a day when I had no free time at all were spent with me chasing a fully flighted kestrel around with a net, in a huge room with a 20 foot ceiling.

A new feature of the 3:00 snapshot posts: Disgusting Substance of the Day. Partly inspired by the many comments from people who wish they could have my job, partly inspired by the great diversity of disgusting substances I encounter daily, this feature will highlight the most disgusting substance that I encounter each day. I've been cataloging these mentally for months, and it's high time that I begin to share them with you all.

Disgusting Substance of the Day: Mouse guts dusted with powdered herbal medicine.

Our vet gave us some capsules of some placebo Chinese herbal medicine to boost the immune system of one of our opossums. To deliver it today, I bisected a mouse and sprinkled the powder onto the exposed guts. Some powder didn't land on the gut mass, so I picked up the half mouse and mopped up the powder with the wet end.

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Re: I didn't actually prepare the diets

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The skunks may have gotten hard boiled eggs too. I'm not entirely sure, but I know they didn't get yogurt or minnows.