Job prospects!

So last week was super busy.  I am down to 1 off day a week so my life is pretty tiring.  Wednesday was my day at asia trail, where I quickly set up enrichment and checked the yard for the morning and helped clean the stall for hana and hank the cub.  We had a behind the scenes tour at 8:30am for them so we were quite in a rush.  This is them from the national zoo facebook page.

Hana and Hank (cub) (credit: Connor Mallon, Smithsonian's National Zoo)

Then I finished cleaning the stalls for the other bears, weighed diets for the next day, and prepped the pm diets.  After that I helped one of the keepers put frosted spray paint on the building windows in designs so that birds could see them and not fly into the windows.  Then we had a meeting and lunch.  I put the enrichment into the stalls and then went home.

Thursday I started my first full day at american trails and started doing my days as the only volunteer now.  So it was quite busy the whole time.  I received, sorted and prepped food for the seals and sea lions.  I then watched the sea lion show and a behind the scenes tour right afterwards.  

5 of the 6 seals: gunther, kara, kjya are gray seals and luke and squeegee are harbor seals

2 of the sea lions: Calli and Sophie (Credit: Mark Van Bergh, Smithsonian's National Zoo)

After lunch I prepared the beaver diets and went to help feed the 3 beavers Chip, Willow, and Buzz.  They eat a basic rodent chow much like the pet block Petsmart uses for their animals, but they also get fresh produce like sweet potato, corn, and broccoli.  

Then I went to prepare the diets for the next day for all other animals in the valley.  I then went and prepared the am buckets for the next day for the seals and sea lions and cleaned buckets after the keepers fed the seals and sea lions. At 4pm I left for the day....it then took me an hour and a half to get home, which included a wreck and a boat sitting in the middle of the road.  The 2 were not connected.  

So all week I have been waiting to hear from a nature center about a job that says I have been referred to the hiring manager...hadnt heard anything yet and then today I hear back from the aquarium close to me about an interview friday so yay!  

Meanwhile I have started hamster sitting for one of my coworkers and today was the first day I put him in his roll ball...so of course I videoed it.  Unfortunately it wont let me post the video but here is a picture of it and a picture of my coworkers hamster chip.

wheres my treats???

ooh can I play with this?

This is a video of my dog going down the stairs....she is absolutely adorable!