Circle of Life (Part II)

One more quick post before bed. If you're faint at heart, you may want to skip this one. Don't let that cute little picture fool you about the post...

So I had planned to go up to the sanctuary this morning and just moments from getting out of bed to get ready when I received a phone call from Lois. The day prior I told her I wouldn't have an issue helping out with picking up roadkill since its dead anyway and I figured I could stomach it. It just so happened that it happened and she was calling to see if I were interested in helping out...sure, why not, I was in the process of heading that way anyway. So I made up some tea and oatmeal to eat on the run.

I met Lois a couple miles up on the road and there he was, Bambi tossed off in the ditch, eyes glazed, tongue sticking out...barf (not really, but I went to my happy place where Bambi was still alive frolicking in a field). We grabbed him by the legs, drug him over to the truck, hooked up a winch cable around his neck and pulled him up into the truck. There's something about touching dead limp deer that made me for the first time in my life actually think "I now wish I had some hand sanitizer". After Bambi was all loaded up, I got in the car and ate a couple spoonfuls of oatmeal and rubbed my eyes from being tired and then realized, that's gross, I didn't even wash my hands yet.

We introduced Bambi to his new home at WWS, a small 2x4' room with Air Conditioning that worked very well, that's right, the freezer. A piece of cardboard was placed on the bottom of the freezer and Bambi set in. There's a reason for this cardboard and I realized the importance quickly...If wet flesh touches the side of the freezer, it can turn into a situation like that kid from "A Christmas Story" where the kid is dared to stick his tongue on the flag pole. Well the deer's nose hit the side of the freezer and instantly stuck there. Sorry, I lost man points right there, I was already at my daily dose of grossness and I was not about to pull that deer off...so Lois did it. Riiiipp, cringe, shivers went down my back. And to think, I was in the Marine Corps :)