Aug. 16th, 2008

Scrubs

Aug. 16th, 2008 03:31 pm
shakatany: Sleeping woman plus moon and stars (Default)
Yesterday at the crack of dawn (well 6:30 am which is pretty early for me as I'm an owl not a lark) I woke and donned my borrowed scrubs and about an hour later we were at PAAWs where a delegation of cats greeted us at the door. At PAAWs the cats waiting to find homes are not kept in cages but have their own room to live and play in with practically everything a cat could want except for that forever home (of course there are cages for newly brought in or sick cats until they are ready to join the general population). My first job was to scoop the poop which I did until I was called to help elsewhere. The vet arrived a short time later and soon patients were showing up for their operations. It was fortunate that I was there as they were extremely short-handed that day. Once again I got to assist the vet as he spayed or neutered 3 dogs and 10 cats. This year I learned how to glue the wounds shut which the vet now does to keep the wound closed over the stitches as added protection. One tiny cat had three huge cysts on her ovaries and one dog was monorchid so he had only one descended testicle so the vet, with CM assisting him, had to go digging in the body to find the other one. I moved the post-op patients to the heating pads that kept them warm while they recovered from their surgery. The anesthetic is a diuretic so a few patients let loose floods of urine, and once, trying to move a recovering cat out of one carrier into another, I got a mouthful of spray of some mixture of body fluids so I rushed to get a Coke to wash out the taste (it was my third soda of 2008 - ordinarily I am not a soda drinker). Aside from a few scratches that was the worst of my "wounds". Finally when most of the patients had left I got to play some more with the cats and kittens. One kitten, apparently weaned to soon, loves to nurse on my hands and arms and I get tiny kitten hickeys. A couple of volunteers were also there to play with and socialize the kittens - some of the friendliest kittens and cats have become so due to their patient efforts. We returned home by 6 and were so exhausted we simply bought a couple of Papa Murphy's pizzas for dinner. 
cat roomHere is part of the cat room. A couple of their litter boxes are hidden in the wooden unit.
Cat in tree

Here is a cat sleeping in a "tree" in the cat room. You can see some of the walkway shelves that are all around the room.
surgery pic1

The operating room
kitten room1

One of the kitten rooms (they currently have two though one may be turned into another OR).
where's Cooper?

Here's Cooper, a recent addition, who's still very timid.
Thief hiding

Here's Thief who loves to suckle.

PAAWs is a wonderful place for cats and people who love them.


 

Meme

Aug. 16th, 2008 03:52 pm
shakatany: Sleeping woman plus moon and stars (Ankhesenamen.)
Gakked this one from [livejournal.com profile] ladyoneill:

Your result for The Mythological Goddess Test...

Neit


Neit, who was said to have emerged from the primeval water to create the world, is one of the oldest Egyptian Goddesses. Although the Egyptians believed that Neit was of both a masculine and feminine nature, as she was self-produced, she was usually depicted as a woman.


The Egyptians believed her to be an ancient and wise Goddess, to whom the other Gods came if they could not resolve their own disputes.
Besides being the ruler of the lower Heavens, she was also the patron to hunt and warfare, domestic arts, mysticism, as well as women and marriage. All this makes her some kind of a “jane-of-all-trades.”


As a deity, Neit is often shown carrying a bow and arrows, linking her to hunting and warfare, other times she is shown with a sceptre, symbol of rule and power, and the ankh, symbol of life.


Take The Mythological Goddess Test at HelloQuizzy

Well at least she's Egyptian - I wonder how I could fix the quiz to end up with Bast?

Today

Aug. 16th, 2008 03:57 pm
shakatany: Sleeping woman plus moon and stars (Default)
[livejournal.com profile] ginmar's CO is now in Afghanistan and a number of us on her flist have signed up to send him "care" packages including me so today CM and I drove over to the PO to pick up a box and then drove to a few stores to buy goodies to put into it (I already have several books and CDs) and sometime next week we'll send it off.

CM just walked in with these long (18"?) filet beans she'd planted - it almost looked as it she'd gotten a green little brother for her cornsnake Maizie Mousebreath *g*

I'm busier on my vacation than I am in RL but boy am I having fun.

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