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Tricia
@aerdrie.bsky.social
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BSc Biology; Wildlife focus & Paleontology certificate | Working now in the wild field of Animal Control | She / her | 🏳️‍🌈
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Update on Charci! Bloodwork done and beautiful. No redflags pointing to FIP, she’s not anemic, and no pressure on the eye so she won’t have to lose it at this time. FIV/FeLV- but her blood coagulates quickly. She has started exploring the house in small doses and nothing slows her down
Image of 3 animals on a bed. To the left is a white and grey Siberian husky mix laying down relaxed sniffing the tail of the small torbie kitten in the foreground. Kitten is laying down with her neck being licked by a red Doberman/lab mix who is convinced she is everything’s mama
January 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I’ve been really bad at social media since starting my job at animal control, but I wanted to share my new foster Charci with you! She is blind, might be able to tell light/dark and is only about 3 months old. Bloodwork today postponed due to fever, will try again later next week
Image of a tortoiseshell / tabby kitten looking at the camera. Right eye is solid cataract while left eye is almost not visible from either rupture or malformation. Right ear is smaller and more teddy bear like while left ear is fully formed. She is in a stainless steel shoreline kennel with a green plush blanket and a litter box with pine pellets inside Image of a tortoiseshell / tabby kitten looking off to the right of the image. Right eye is solid cataract Right ear is smaller and more teddy bear like while left ear is fully formed. She is in a room with a banker’s desk to her right (image left) and a green canvas crate behind her
December 23, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Some update on fosterling Prim! Last Wednesday she weighed in at 2.6lbs, and likes sitting next to me on the couch (NOT in lap, do not approve of laps. She snuck in behind Tamera, and got bathed for her trouble. This morning she was 2.86lbs! So spay will likely be in 2 weeks.
A small orange kitten on the right, laying on a yellow pillow with blue block printing, back against the grey couch back. In front of her (to the left) is a calico cat (white, tan, and black big patches of fur) curled in a ball, not noticing the kitten. The Calico cat on the left has noticed the small orange kitten on the right, and is now giving the kitten a bath. The kitten looks like she is protesting a little but not heavily.
September 6, 2023 at 7:28 PM
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We were told Flynn (Mt Cur on the right) would be a medium sized dog, just Harper’s (brindle pibble on left) size. At least she has enough personality that he doesn’t trample her? Also would have liked honesty.
Image of two dogs on a wooden deck looking out at a muddy rainy back yard. Brindle pibble on the left is a good hand taller than the red mt cur on the right. Pibble is sniffing the cut’s ear which is flipped back inside out. Image of two dogs on a grey dog bed with blue piping, looking at the person taking the picture but not the camera. Brindle pibble on the left is noticeably smaller than the red Mt cur on the right, both in length, and height based on leg length.
August 29, 2023 at 2:38 AM
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Prim got a reprieve! I weighed her this morning and she is about half what she should be for her age (5ish months and 2.3lb), we try to wait for 3lb so boss had me cancel her spay. Sleepless night for me / no food for her last night for nothing but I’ll take it. Hanging out with the big kitties
Image of 2 cats on a grey couch, one is about 2 years and a grey tabby, the other is a small 5m-ish orange tabby kitten. Both are looking up to their left (camera right) at another tabby about 2 years old sitting above them on a couch side table. There is a swivel rocker chair behind him with a goat hide in the back of it, and in the bottom right corner is a brindle pibble curled up on a grey blanket / brown dog
August 26, 2023 at 2:28 AM
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Tomorrow Prim goes in for her spay, & I’m having a bit of PTSD over it. Last kitten I had that was spayed started losing all of her teeth a week after, screaming in pain. Vet immediately, no cause found, just nosedived hard & had to euthanize. Likelihood of a repeat is low, but… Miss you Kitiara
Image of a dilute tortoise shell kitten, slightly blurry since she was moving. Mostly grey tabby in color with patches of rust showing through, laying on a pillow.
August 25, 2023 at 3:30 AM
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Discovered a critical failure in design. There is no solid frame, so if another cat lays on top the whole thing collapses. I will be making a lightweight frame from 1/4” pvc, but until then Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything & Volo’s Guide to Monsters stand tall at the front and back.
Volo’s Guide to Monsters, D&D 5th edition, stands up wedged in the opening of the Siivton animal carrier.
August 23, 2023 at 2:48 AM
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He just sent me the picture of his probes. Took half a leg of 480 from left pinky to left tricep where he was leaning against a guide wire ~15 ft up. A new meter was bought that day
Image of electric meter probes, the protective jacket and one of the wires connecting the red probe to the meter is torn and snapped
August 22, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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One thing I noted with having a foster kitten: making a playpen setup at home and work is time consuming, especially when home one is a large canvas dog kennel. Collapsing it / transporting it takes time. So I bought a carrier with fold out sides.
Siivton animal carrier in grey, XL size. There is blue piping and a lot of zippers holding the sides and mesh together, sitting on a brown coffee table. In the background is a tabby cat laying down and part of a faun colored dog to the left laying on a dog bed Siivton animal carrier in grey, XL size. The sides are all folded out so instead of a rectangle carrier shape there is a folded out panel for both sides as well as rear and back sides, giving whatever animal is inside a lot more space. There is a white sheerling style mat on the bottom of the carrier. A grey tabby investigates from the side A closer look at the Siivton animal carrier, grey, XL size. A grey tabby is laying inside it stretched out on the white sheerling style mat that is on the bottom
August 22, 2023 at 5:57 PM
aerdrie.bsky.social
One thing I noted with having a foster kitten: making a playpen setup at home and work is time consuming, especially when home one is a large canvas dog kennel. Collapsing it / transporting it takes time. So I bought a carrier with fold out sides.
Siivton animal carrier in grey, XL size. There is blue piping and a lot of zippers holding the sides and mesh together, sitting on a brown coffee table. In the background is a tabby cat laying down and part of a faun colored dog to the left laying on a dog bed Siivton animal carrier in grey, XL size. The sides are all folded out so instead of a rectangle carrier shape there is a folded out panel for both sides as well as rear and back sides, giving whatever animal is inside a lot more space. There is a white sheerling style mat on the bottom of the carrier. A grey tabby investigates from the side A closer look at the Siivton animal carrier, grey, XL size. A grey tabby is laying inside it stretched out on the white sheerling style mat that is on the bottom
August 22, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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Today Prim got to see the big house (instead of the spare room / canvas kennel she has been limited to). She stayed with me on the couch because I was so stiff after work I didn’t think I’d make it off the floor if I sat with her. She kept hugging my arm until I wrapped it around her
Small orange kitten, curled up in the crook of my elbow laying on a beige Laz-I-Boy couch. Her head is on the right towards the back of the couch / me, but looking out at the rest of the living room. She settled like this for about an hour happily before getting too warm
August 22, 2023 at 3:30 AM
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Hi folks! I’ve made it over so for my 1st post, welcome to my new job working at a local animal control. I’m a month in and have already broken my no fosters rule. Day 1 & Day 5 of this adventure with Prim. Floating patella, fractures in growth plates, femoral issues. We have Meloxicam & Mirataz
Image of a small orange kitten curled up on a maroon and pink blanket, within the confines of a green canvas kennel normally used for dogs. Amber eyes look scared and a bit in pain due to her knees / back legs having some growth issues Photo of a small orange kitten, looking down at her while she is curled on a black and white Viking / Celtic knot patterned blanket next to a grey pant leg, and nuzzling against a pink socked foot
August 19, 2023 at 11:40 PM