Animal Ambulance

[den]

The owl looked a lot brighter this morning so I took him out to the zoo and left him with the vets there. He's doing the owl-head-turning thing and his pupils are working as you would expect, and he even flapped while Ben The Vet held him. So the bird isn't concussed, or if he was then he's almost recovered. But he still has trouble standing. They're going to x-ray his back today.

While I was there I asked about the bats I dropped in to be tested for lyssavirus. Everything came back negative, so I'm a bit happy about that. No horrible diseases for me! I think it is fair to say woo hoo.

After the boobook I picked up the little kangaroo from his over-night carer and took him out to M., his new mum in Guerie, about 25km out of town. She'll be spending the next 8 months raising him.

M. tells me that we can't release Rexie in the middle of winter, but she has almost out-grown the cage I have her in. Sometime real soon I'll have to hand Rexie over to H. who has a larger echidna cage. I can hear Rexie now rattling the bars of her cage. She must be hungry.

Comments

[kayre]

Aw... my kid was hoping for pics of the baby kangaroo!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Photos to come when the roll of film is finished. I don't have a digital camera.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Oops, guess the spam wasn't from your puggle after all.

That leaves the question - who's puggle was it then?

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

awww, bye bye Rexie

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'll miss the rampaging puggle updates.

Glad the boobook is doing better--hope he doesn't have something nasty that'll show up on the X-rays. Good to hear that the joey is off with his new surrogate mom...I'm guessing a joey would be a little too much of a handful to have in the house.

And hey, kudos on being lyssavirus free! No lingering miserable--um--death? Twitching? Zombification? I give up, what does lyssavirus actually do? Is it the same as rabies, or is it a whole unique unpleasantness?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Lyssavirus is related to rabies. In fact, rabies is a lyssavirus. All the otherlyssaviruses are carried by bats only and it's pretty uncommon, so there's no real worry of an epidemic.

Australian Bat Lyssavirus takes 2 years to develop symptoms so I have heaps of time to get rabies booster shots should I need them. I don't: I'm rabies-proof. ABL only has 3 symptoms: a mild, flu-like illness, then two weeks later encephalitus and coma. 4 symptoms if you count dying but that's more a result than a symptom.

Waiter, there are no termites in my cage!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad the Boobook is doing better and appears to be on the mend! So Rexie has discovered the sad fact there is no room service in the establishment!:D I hope you have a plan b in case she figures out how to unlatch the cage!
The again, you have two dogs full of angst to raise the alarm.