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Pauline’s page
Dear Friends,
Christmas seems such a long time I had to leave a young otter cub
ago but thank you so much to all of called Snowflake in the capable
you who sent us lots of lovely hands of Judith, one of our animal
Christmas cards and donations. I carers who kindly moved into our flat
know the staff were amazed at how to be on hand for emergencies. I got
many of you had thought of us at a call while I was in Australia to ask
that time. if it was alright for him to go to the
Otter and Owl Centre in Southampton
Well, 2010 started with a real shocker as he was weaned and needed a
of a winter with deep snow practically friend which, of course, I was happy
all over the country. I know on the first with but sad that he would not be
day how silent it was in the morning in my kitchen when I got home. I
with hardly any traffic on the roads needn’t have worried as a new otter
and it was necessary to check all our cub was in residence when I got
pens to see if the weight of the snow home having come in that day - our
had caused any damage. Thankfully second cub this year already. A little
all was well and by the time all had girl called Terra who is just starting
been checked, every one of our to eat fish now and on grade 1
animal carers had turned up for work. swimming lessons!
There was to be even more snow a We also have our first badger cub in
few weeks later but I have to admit too. He arrived at the start of
that I wasn’t here to see it as I was February and was rescued by a dog
in Australia having a holiday of a who carried the cub in his mouth to
lifetime! It was all to celebrate my his owners. They soon got in touch
60th year and I certainly will never with us and within a couple of hours
forget it. We went to Sydney, he was curled up in an incubator in
visited the tropical rain forest and my kitchen. I really must wear my
the Barrier Reef but I have to admit glasses as I thought the cub was a
that my most memorable times were female and called her Crocus as it
spent at wildlife rescue centres and was early spring. But the next day, I
carers homes. I definitely think my realised the urine was coming from
favourite has to be the wombats but somewhere else so she became he
maybe that was because they are and has the name Aquarius - we’re
so like badgers! Anyway I’m back, going for horoscope names this year!
brown and glad to be home which
has too many things dear to me to My favourite time is always last thing
ever want to stay away for so at night as I turn the light off in the
long again. kitchen and check the sleeping.
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