Jogging in the real world

I've never really gone running before. I've used treadmills a bit... but its certainly not the same! I've been aiming to slowly work myself up to jog for 20-30 minutes. Right now I can only manage 5 minute intervals with walking in between LOL. I enjoyed using the treadmill because I could tell how fast I was going and how far I had gone, etc. Outside I am sure my pace varies with the tiredness and terrain factors. I only have my watch to tell how long I've been going and visual landmarks to compare to how far I ran before. I've found the thing that keeps me back from going longer is I run out of breath (literally lol). Its been very slow going and with a busy work schedule I've only been out 3 times this week. Next week I have 2 maybe 3 chances to get out there, but I may be too tired lol. We'll see...

Interesting Day at Work

I worked at Pets Unlimited today, and it seemed like one thing after the other happened. First the supervisor was late letting us in the store. After a walk around the animals I spotted another gerbil had died, not a good sign. That is the second in 2 days.

I am in charge of a co-op student that comes in from 9-11. Her name is also Stephanie, which is weird enough, and she gets distracted soo easily. She's supposed to help me clean kennels and water the animals. But she'll take 5 minutes to sit and coo to the puppies, or if I'm showing a rabbit to someone she'll stand there and watch. *sigh* Kids. Which leads me to... I had to show a class of Kindergarten kids around the store. And for anyone who knows me, knows I dislike kids LOL So that was loads of fun. One of them kept wanting to hold my hand, and another kept trying to squeeze the animals. I'm just thankful none of them tried to pet the birds!

One of our budgies keeps escaping from his cage. He can somehow squeeze through the bars of the cage in the upper corner. He was loose 3 or 4 times today. At least his wings are clipped and he doesn't bite! He's supposed to be one of our "trained" birds, but they're all rather untrained lol. They don't like stepping on your finger or being handled if they can help it. Speaking of birds, Nelly has found a home! She is our yellow naped Amazon parrot. I'm kind of sad that she'll be leaving us, but happy for her. At least I still have my buddy Bailey, the blue fronted Amazon parrot. He's actually my favorite, and I'm fascinated by how intelligent and mischievous they are. I still haven't been brave enough to get him to step on my hand or shoulder, but he shakes his foot, and takes treats nicely.

But back to my day... one of the new puppies has something wrong with his bum. I was told to clean him up and put polysporin on it... and see if its the same tomorrow. If it hasn't changed he'll get a vet appointment. Which doesn't really make sense since they all need to see the vet soon to get their shots and checkups. But are they gonna listen to me? not likely lol.

Our rabbits finally came on sale today and within an hour or two we sold 5 out of 8 of them. People must have had their calendars marked for today! lol This made for my work to be backed up (as well as because of the little kids). So I didn't get done with feed and water til 12:30 or so, in time for lunch! That was annoying. But I didn't have much in terms of shavings and corn cob bedding to clean cages anyway... so might have worked out for the best.

A lady came in during the afternoon with a dead gerbil. She bought two on Saturday and the other isn't looking good either. We have a 15 day health guarantee on our animals (fish and cats/dogs are different). You may (or may not) remember me talking about the gerbils problem we've had the past two days... well she got these guys from the same cage. Normally we just replace the animals, since refunds are not allowed. But she was annoyed and personally I wouldn't blame her, and she didn't want one from the same cage. So I handed it over to the supervisor (haha) and got him to give her a credit for a new gerbil when we get others in. While dealing with this customer, the 'fish guy' put a chameleon in full "pissed off" display on the back on the 'supervisor'. They both laughed and carried on while this poor woman was getting more and more annoyed with the situation which took far too long for them to sort out. *sigh* I'm not too sure about the maturity level of some of the people I work with... lol

I'm sure more stuff happened today that I can't remember right now. But it sure was interesting...Hopefully tomorrow will go a bit smoother!

Brigadier's law

Please consider signing this petition! A month ago a police officer and his police horse were run down in a vehicle in Ontario. The officer was severly injured and the horse had to be shot at the scene, before euthanasia was possible. This petition is to officially urge the Government of Canada and/or the legislative assembly of Ontario, to amend the Criminal Code or appropriate laws,to make intentional harming of a law enforcement animal an indictable offense.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/543044749

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First Post!

Being my first post on this blog, I should introduce myself. I'm a 22 year old girl living in Charlottetown, PEI and originally from St. Andrews, NB. I graduated from UPEI in May 2005 with a BSc with an honours in Biology, and am currently attempting to get into the Atlantic Veterinary College for the Fall of 2006. I live with 3 roomates (some absent at this time), their pets and my cat Cody, and my betta fish. I'm currently working at the Superstore and Pets Unlimited, as well as volunteering at the PEI Humane Society. I'm sure I'll add lots more about myself as I go along. Talk to you soon!