OMG A POST?! Return to the clinic

Hey so this will probably be my last post since I am woefully incapable of posting regularly post-clinic (no pun intended). Anyway I visited the clinic a few weeks ago and I thought it would be nice to show some before and after pictures of the animals. It was a really nice visit and I plan on going down one more time before I disappear into Vermont. So, without further ado, my babies

Oscar Then:

And Now!:

Raccoon Number One Then:

And Now!:

Charlie Then:

And Now!:

And with new girlfriend, Lucy:


Apparently Oscar is aptly named since he is quite grouchy and is the boss in the new and awesome flight cage for owls. Henry has adorable and hilarious uneven antlers:And is thoroughly enjoying his wheel chair. He apparently greets visitors at the door now :)

Charlie is just the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. When he first saw me he ran around the cage in circles for like 20 minutes and yipped. Here is a video of the second time I came up to the cage:



I also got to see several babies that we didn't have when I was there, including a baby woodchuck, wood duck, turkey(ahhhh it begins again!) and a little Ternie (laughing gull)! The laughing gull was super sassy which was AMAZING.

Also here is a baby blue jay who was begging for food every time someone walked past. SO CUTE!




I missed the animals more than I realized :(

Bye for now (forEVER?!)

Missing my babies :(

So I'm not going to say I miss the poop...or the 6am mornings...or the demanding physical labor...but man do I miss those animals. At the moment I feel really antsy because I'm used to being on the move 12 hours a day...but I also have slept from 12 midnight to 12 noon for the past 3 days. I am the sleeping MASTER. I know that sounds a little excessive but it was amazing so I refused to feel ashamed. I think I will keep up this blog because it has been nice to look back at the stuff I have been doing and because at UVM I'm going to be just as (if not more) unreachable to most of my friends and family. Anyway, I found a bunch of OLD OLD Wildlife in Crisis pictures up in the apartment before I left and I downloaded them onto my computer (with Dara's permission). I though I would share some of the cool ones of animals I didn't see and pictures of the clinic from way back when:

Old School WIC:

Baby bluebirds = ridiculousness
The juvenile bald eagle raised and released from WIC:
Why if you throw shit on the ground and leave it there you are seriously not my friend:
Adorableness

I am actually planning on going back to WIC for a visit in early June so stay posted for adorable baby pictures and an update on Charlie and Henry! Also I will be in Maine and camping in the next few weeks and will attempt to remember my camera. Later!

Ok so I lied, THIS is the last post

Today

Henry

Got

WHEELS!!!!He LOVES them and he was way less freaked out than I thought when we put him in. He seemed so much more comfortable than he is in the tub :) It was an awesome way to end my internship.

Aaaaand also here is a sleepy owl:

alright, see you all in the real world!

LAST POST AT WIC!!

Hey everyone! Thursday is my last day here so this will be a somewhat long post to catch you up on my life and post adorable pictures :) Sooo first order of business:

1. THE TURKEYS ARE GONE! Let me back up. We got a call a little over a week ago from a woman being harassed by a turkey in her yard. Dara saw the number and realized it was someone right down the road from us...sure enough...it was one of our turkeys. They apparently have been branching out in their harassment practices, only now it is landing them in trouble. Sooo, in order to keep them off animal contols radar and from becoming turkey dinners, they have both been sent to a farm. No, not the "farm" where old dogs go, an actual farm. Anyway, farewell turkeys! I will miss your 5 am tap on my skylight....wait no I won't...Enjoy the farm!


2. MORE BABIES. At our highest count there were 25 bunnies...omg. Currently we also have 2 baby raccoons (fuzzball 1 and 2!), a baby possum who looks like an alien, and 3 baby squirrels...OMG PICTURES:


3. About how Charlie 3 weeks ago:


Became Charlie now!I LOVE THIS ANIMAL SO MUCH! Anyway here is another quick video of him

Aaaaand last order of business

4. I am going to be working this summer at a nature camp but hanging out in Maine a lot so I will attempt to take more naturey pictures and also I plan to visit the clinic a few times....should I continue to update this blog?

Anyway, for those of you who I will see soon; See you soon!

THE END




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FINE

Alright you perfectionists, NO, 21 minus 2 does not equal 18....but I'm not actually sure where my math/version of reality went wrong because we currently do have 18...hm. And also here is what happens to your arms when you let baby foxes play with them:


But it's ok because he is just so damn cute.
Guess how I took the picture :) go ahead, guess! Aaaaand here is another bunch of cute pictures of Charlie (sure, from LOST):

SO MANY BUNNIES

So I haven't posted in a while and here is why:

Last Thursday:

4 Bunnies
Last Friday

Two more bunnies (mixed in with previous bunnies):Last weekend while I was away

10 more bunnies:


This Tuesday

1 more bunny:

This Wednesday

5 more bunnies:

In total we have received 21 bunnies, but two died so now we only have EIGHTEEN BABY BUNNIES 0_o

Apparently this is normal for this time of year. Did you know that bunnies reproduce like.....bunnies?!

Anyway, that has kept us on our toes. Daphne (who is a boy) has now been dubbed Charlie the Fox and is still the cutest thing that ever happened. Here is some more video proof (note the move to the bigger cage and his adorable playfulness/eating my hands):

BABIES and Daphne is a boy...

So when it rains it pours and we got a baby great horned owl and a littler of 4 baby bunnies this week...although during peak baby season I hear there is a line out the door of people with babies every day. Anyway, if you didn't know, baby great horned owls look like muppets and like if you pushed them just a very little bit they would fall over:His name is Oscar I decided today. Aaaaaand here are baby bunnies so cute that it hurts:


I was thinking Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter (or is that too cliche?). Plus I think that's just tempting the fates for one to kick the bucket and thus leave an incomplete set, and I don't really want to have to tell people that Peter Rabbit died....Anyway, in other news: Daphne is a boy! I had a sneaking suspicion and I guess Dara must have rushed when we got him in. Melissa (another awesome volunteer and ex-intern) had come by to bring Delilah for babysitting while she is on vacation and she was holding "Daphne" while I was on the phone. I was on the phone forever with a woman asking if it was normal for deer to lie down sometimes (it is indeed) and Melissa wrote something on a post-it and put it in front of me. Thinking it would say something like "Sorry I gotta go, bye!" I read it. It said "Daphne has a penis". I then laughed accidentally to the annoyance of the woman on the phone. Anyway, Dara double checked and the fox is indeed a boy and thus in need of a new name. Any suggestions? Marissa has suggested Alphie along with the idea that the babies be named alphabetically as they arrive which I like...although I just wrecked it with Oscar....hm. Anyway, leave suggestions and also watch this video of "Daphne" being horrifically cute.