All Glory to the Hypno-Jungle-Owlet!
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Looks like a bobblehead!
That made me cackle! Thanks so much!
How are you doing?
That was a pain to make! I had to try like 10 gif makers! I’m glad it brought joy after all that.
I’m feeling alright today. It’s been a quiet week thus far. I’ve been enjoying the clinic animals. I got to pet a teeny tiny opossum baby, I keep feeding the owls, and I will be doing something yet unknown to assist with the upcoming open house.
Wow, you went through all that to elicit genuine delight for a fellow netizen? I think that counts as mutual aid, and the gratitude welling up inside is almost overwhelming. I mean that, it’s a wild ride, and I’m so honored to have good people like you as companions on the journey.
It sounds like you’re finding your rescue feet. Possums are really gentle creatures, when not feeling threatened, aren’t they? But they’ll not hesitate to back you up when they are feeling threatened. It reminds me of hearing how badgers here are “vicious”, while quite placid across the pond. The difference seems to be in how humans react in encounters.
Good luck with open house! I’m sure you will handle it spectacularly.
I’ve had some adventures with a feral kitten. I was sure I’d placed it with it’s mom, but last evening saw another feral that looks similar. It’s probably okay, since the adoptive/mom accepted the baby, I just feel kind of guilty I couldn’t locate the other possible mother for a week. Either way, the baby was alone, hungry, and inconsolable, until being placed with a mom, and two other kittens. It was eating, but cried every waking moment, despite cuddling, swaddling, stuffed animals and being unbothered, whereas upon introducing it to a family, the little things was immediately comforted and seems to be doing well. We do the best we can.
I had wanted to see of there was some quick and easy tool to do what seems like a simple thing in this current age of technology, but I couldnt find any. I used my layering tool to take some quick stills and was ready to toss them into my normal gif tool, but it kept freezing on the upload. I tried a few times and it just would take. Then other tools were either just a tease they were free or didnt need an account signup, others limited to too few images, and so on. I eventually found one that just worked. Then some trial on error on the speed, and a few had a bit of border around the image and the others didnt and it felt distracting, so then I had to crop it. 😰
It was still fun to have finally gotten it, and it looks decent enough for how slapped together it was. Not a great, smooth, AI generated thing, but in a way, it’s possibly funnier this janky way of doing it by hand.
The opossum babies, I think there were 12. The mom was hit by a car and kill along with 2 more babies. A quick Googling says the babies have a 10% survival rate in the wild, so it’s a bit sad this is probably the best long term outcome for them. We have another oppossum that had babies there, but I don’t think I’ve seen them yet, other than me seeing mamma’s nose sticking out her house once.
It is good you were able to find a caring cat family for the kitten. It may or may not have been the correct one, but you found it a home. Like the opossum, it may not be 100% what nature would have done, but you still gave it a chance to survive and succeed, and often, that is the best thing we can hope for.
I’m glad you went the “janky”, more effort required way, even though it took more of your time. I’m no fan of AI, call me a Luddite, wrt that.
Twelve? That’s a lot of joeys! Does your center have them all?
Ferals here in farm country keep the rats and snakes in check, they’re a pretty important part of the ecosystem. The field by my house was fallow late, this year, I’d been optimistic it was to be allowed to rest and rejuvenate. No such luck, it was just planted late, so I’m very much keen on keeping rattlers in check. Tbh, the snakes and ferals probably keep each other in check. I’ve no idea how avian flu jumping to cats may affect that, but retain hope. Interestingly, I don’t observe ferals bothering the birds and squirrels. I’m sure it happens, I’ve just never personally seen it.
They were still so tiny, I think I could have held the pile of them in one hand. The rehabber was feeding them with this miniscule tube that looked like a piece of fishing line more than a piece of tubing. I assume we were keeping them. They were very velvety and warm.
I don’t think I’ve even seen a cat fight a snake before! The bird flu stuff makes me nervous how it’s still not really mainstream just how much is being affected by it all. I fear one day everyone is going to act like nobody saw this coming. Between that and the measels stuff going around, it really feels like we’ve rolled back into an age of ignorance.
