I've Got A Tiger By The Tail

I've spent the past week working on a new pacing guide and exam for Biology and Anatomy down at the school board building. I can confidently say that they've more than gotten their money out of me timewise on this project. I still have about 2 hours of loose ends to tie up but have put in 18 hours so far on a project they paid me 12 hours for.

And now for something completely different! We had 5 cats adopted out this Saturday from Goliath and Bebe's World's rescue group at Petco. Our head lady Lisa was gone on vacation so I took over medical duties. This mainly consisted of snipping spay sutures, doctoring ear mites, vaccinating, and giving medicine for worms. One group of 3 grey semi-ferals I had never seen before had to be treated for roundworms. Since they had been so good all day being petted by strangers we thought it would be easy to hold them as we medicated. Wrong!! As soon as the first guy tasted the bitter medicine, he leaped out of the other volunteer's arms. I grabbed and held on for dear life so this hissing monster wouldn't take off out the door. After a couple of "oh shit" comments I yelled "open the door!". I thrust this very angry cat inside and slammed the door. I then took damage assessment. Blood was dripping from both hands and the pants were a total loss due to being filled with cat claw holes and covered with blood. I wiped off all that would come off of the pants and disinfected the scratches. After that I continued the medicating in the cage by wrapping the other 2 guys in a towel before shoving medicine down their throats. Afterwards, the day got back to normal and we closed out the afternoon with 2 more adoptions.

Here is the left hand 2 days later partially healed. It actually looks a lot better now than when I was sitting there with blood dripping on the floor. Oh well, occupational hazard.