Today we have no
tours so we focused on cleaning and keeping the workplace neat. We trained the
first years on how to prepare milk as they have been making the wrong
quantities of bottles leaving us in a bit of a pinch every time.
I had the week off
due to working two weekends in a row and so I had to get to know the new
animals at the centre before doing night shift tonight. The one new animal is
an Eland, brought off the farm itself with an ear that had been eaten off by
tics.
They had to go out in
the field and track it down to be darted and remove the maggots to sterilize
the wound and keep it clean. Unfortunately the pests had already eaten through
to the brain and the symptoms were that it had been walking in circles the
whole day and that it could not see very well.
The other new animal
was a baby Rooibok ewe. They had placed her with Lilo the steenbokkie as a companion
and they get fed at the same times during the day and the night. She has not
been given a name yet and we are currently training her to come to you when
feeding her with the bottle as this is still fairly new to her.
Abby, the younger
lion cub, had been taken to the vet due to dehydration and she had been placed
on a drip. The meter had to drip once every three seconds and her diarrhea had
gotten worse so her bum was really burning. The vet prescribed pro-kolin, which
is a paste containing protexin to harden her feses that had to be given to her
three times a day.
The serval kittens,
Apollo and Oryn, are being taught how to drink out of bowls by pouring the milk
that they would have got in bottles, into bowls and feeding them the milk in
bottle caps to get them used to licking the milk. They are getting the hang of
it but they still need some practice. As the day was ending we also had a new
arrival volunteer, Amy that was to be staying with us for the weekend. She is a
qualified vet and she was given permission to help with the lion cub were there
any problems.
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