Meffing Fridays >_
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la_belle_laideToday was a bad day for animals at the hospital.
First thing after we finished up in the morning, a beautiful raccoon fell about fifteen feet from a tree it had randomly climbed. Raccoons out in the daytime, this does not bode well to begin with. But there was something obviously wrong with the dude, you could see it as soon as he was able to stand. He was wobbling all around and dragging his feet; it was probably distemper rather than rabies. We spent the better part of the morning chasing him around--the poor thing was terrified--before finally catching him with the rabies pole and euthanizing him. (It was Jenn J. who finally nabbed him.) I felt so awful that his last moments were so scary.
Then at the end of the day, some people brought in a rooster whose leg had been broken by a couple of kids who were torturing it. They had already killed one chicken, and were just having fun with this one. I don't know how old they are. But the cops said they couldn't do anything because chickens aren't domestic; they are just livestock and are not protected.
Okay, even aside from the poor rooster, whose leg is totally broken, umm, these kids? Isn't cruelty to animals one of the surest signs that you're going to grow up to be some kind of serial killer? Doesn't anyone think that, I don't know, the parents may be concerned about this or something? Oh my god, it was so upsetting.
And of course during the day, I had to keep myself from pulling my hair out, as I do every Friday. Honest to god, how hard could it be to just do the simple things you are asked to do? And to not create more work for everyone else? That's all I'm going to say. I'm done.
Tomorrow we're starting up Hula rehearsals again for the first time in about a month and a half. Then after I go grocery shopping, I'm going to give Boychild his Easter gifties and then I'll get started working on putting up Springtime lights and the Trisky sculpture.
By the way, it is as cold as brass balls in a freezer today. Hi, SPRING? Get going.
First thing after we finished up in the morning, a beautiful raccoon fell about fifteen feet from a tree it had randomly climbed. Raccoons out in the daytime, this does not bode well to begin with. But there was something obviously wrong with the dude, you could see it as soon as he was able to stand. He was wobbling all around and dragging his feet; it was probably distemper rather than rabies. We spent the better part of the morning chasing him around--the poor thing was terrified--before finally catching him with the rabies pole and euthanizing him. (It was Jenn J. who finally nabbed him.) I felt so awful that his last moments were so scary.
Then at the end of the day, some people brought in a rooster whose leg had been broken by a couple of kids who were torturing it. They had already killed one chicken, and were just having fun with this one. I don't know how old they are. But the cops said they couldn't do anything because chickens aren't domestic; they are just livestock and are not protected.
Okay, even aside from the poor rooster, whose leg is totally broken, umm, these kids? Isn't cruelty to animals one of the surest signs that you're going to grow up to be some kind of serial killer? Doesn't anyone think that, I don't know, the parents may be concerned about this or something? Oh my god, it was so upsetting.
And of course during the day, I had to keep myself from pulling my hair out, as I do every Friday. Honest to god, how hard could it be to just do the simple things you are asked to do? And to not create more work for everyone else? That's all I'm going to say. I'm done.
Tomorrow we're starting up Hula rehearsals again for the first time in about a month and a half. Then after I go grocery shopping, I'm going to give Boychild his Easter gifties and then I'll get started working on putting up Springtime lights and the Trisky sculpture.
By the way, it is as cold as brass balls in a freezer today. Hi, SPRING? Get going.
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Date: 2008-03-22 02:50 am (UTC);) Happy Ostara, first off, and man do I hope your next day at work gets a whole lot better. Those kids, btw, should have their own legs broken. And then slapped around a bit. And for my own curiosity, is the east coast having a rise in rabies this year, or am I just hearing about cases more?
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Date: 2008-03-22 03:00 am (UTC)I absolutely agree about those kids. They do not have much of a happy or, uhh, promising future either way, you know?
I'm not sure about the rabies, there have been a few cases, maybe a few more in the last few years perhaps, than there used to be. I think this was distemper though. Either way it was really sad.