A big challenge for me is trying to individualize my work from the other interns. Mostly our mentor asks us to do stuff together so it's hard for me to show I'm able to accomplish other challenges by myself without the help of my fellow interns.
Although today I stepped up and helped out with a big problem, getting Cassora acclimated to her new situation. Cassora is a spotted leopard with luminescent green eyes. Cassora came down from Oakland to get surgery on her paws: being de-clawed, and suffering from traumatic pain. In the morning I was killing weeds with Roundup and I saw the founder come with her trailer through the front gate. After my tank of Roundup emptied and Sam, a worker I was with for the day, picked me up in his truck he told me I was going to help a leopard who'd just arrived in the morning being Cassora. I assembled the cage for the leopard at quarantine and took it to the medical area and set everything up there as well. It took about an hour and thirty minutes, and watching/seeing Cassora from less than 5 feet aways is a moment I'll never forget.
Cassora looked very tiered and her paws were shaking rapidly, I could tell she was in really bad pain. But when she would stare at me directly into my eyes I felt stunned by this rare, gentle, and elegant beast.
Although today I stepped up and helped out with a big problem, getting Cassora acclimated to her new situation. Cassora is a spotted leopard with luminescent green eyes. Cassora came down from Oakland to get surgery on her paws: being de-clawed, and suffering from traumatic pain. In the morning I was killing weeds with Roundup and I saw the founder come with her trailer through the front gate. After my tank of Roundup emptied and Sam, a worker I was with for the day, picked me up in his truck he told me I was going to help a leopard who'd just arrived in the morning being Cassora. I assembled the cage for the leopard at quarantine and took it to the medical area and set everything up there as well. It took about an hour and thirty minutes, and watching/seeing Cassora from less than 5 feet aways is a moment I'll never forget.
Cassora looked very tiered and her paws were shaking rapidly, I could tell she was in really bad pain. But when she would stare at me directly into my eyes I felt stunned by this rare, gentle, and elegant beast.