From Glen Helen

Got towels? This little screech owl found itself in a flower bed covered in mud. Thankfully someone found it and brought it to the Raptor Center where we were able to give them a bath and get them ready to join the 13 other baby screech owls in the “hunting school” before being released back to nature. As you can imagine, these little floofs use a lot of resources and we could use a restock! Paper towels are always in need!

    • anon6789OP
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      84 months ago

      They washed off its trendy mud mask beauty regimen!

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    34 months ago

    Lol, he looks so derpy! I had a cat that looked exactly like this owl when it was getting a bath.

    • anon6789OP
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      44 months ago

      Owls are just sky cats… Or maybe cats are land owls?

      I think it’s more likely you’d find something you’d call an owl further back in history than you would a house cat, so I’ll go with cats being land owls. 🤔

  • @Chetzemoka
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    34 months ago

    Lil’ buddy, you’re not alone. I worked 16 hours yesterday; woke up looking approximately identical to this.

    • anon6789OP
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      24 months ago

      You’re “essential!”

      Doesn’t that make you feel blessed? 🙃

      Thank you for your hard work! It still seems that having someone work that long straight through in something like nursing can’t be the best option for anyone involved. I hope you don’t have to do that too often. I couldn’t do it.

      • @Chetzemoka
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        34 months ago

        Definitely not too often, and it’s always voluntary. It’s actually illegal to force nurses to stay over their shift in Massachusetts unless there’s a major emergency. (Thank god)

        Yesterday was a weird situation where at the end of my shift, there was a peritoneal dialysis patient that needed an out of the ordinary treatment. And on the team of dialysis nurses I work per diem with, I’m the one with the most experience with peritoneal dialysis. It would have been way more difficult for one of the evening nurses to do it, so I agreed to stay (and they gave me a bonus to stay, so even better!)

        • anon6789OP
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          24 months ago

          Ah, now that is a situation where it actually does sound better for everyone!

  • beefbot
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    34 months ago

    Awwww poor wee one. I hope the bath water was good & warm & they got dried off in a nice floofy towel

    • anon6789OP
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      114 months ago

      This is a different, but similar looking owl to give you a close approximating of the floofing process.

      Mountain Scops, from The Telegraph

      Owls seem to enjoy bathing from the videos I’ve seen. The shake and shimmy to get all their bits cleaned up.