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13 <p>The following is a journal written by Nadia
14 Von Ballmoos while caring for Oz from April 11, 2002 - April 24, 2002.</p>
15 <p class="info-box-top">Some spell-checking and formatting have been applied.</p>
16 <h3>April 11th Thursday 2002</h3>
17 <p>
18 "OZ" arrives; this time in the BIG cage. The stay is longer.</p>
19 <p>He seems quite
20 confident.</p>
21 <p>- The lodgings
22 comprise a living area, a play pan, and a bathroom. </p>
23 <p>A little SPA
24 where his water is; [sometimes it drips].</p>
25 <p><em>Voilà,</em>we square off.</p>
26 <p>He is located
27 in the 'rain forest' corner of the dining-room among the house plants,
28 in front of the glass sliding door to the patio.</p>
29 <p>Very well,
30 I have the 'how to' all spelled out. We settle in.</p>
31 <p>First I am
32 timid, <em>mamma mia</em> if he takes
33 off when I open the gate, how am I going to fetch him. To cover my angst
34 I talk very loudly to him, I open the gate, I have to make him welcome
35 the poor thing. He sure knows how to play me. 'We are pals'.</p>
36 <h3>Friday 12th</h3>
37 <p>
38 he catches a
39 few rays, the weather is splendid. He is quite happy. He eyes the patio.
40 -Hey lady, do you know that at the nice house they let me out on their
41 patio? How about it?- </p>
42 <p>Like I was
43 told, he stretches and pushes his little snout through the bars. I have
44 to be firm.</p>
45 <p>I give him
46 some parsley, to be 'very' nice. He accepts it.</p>
47 <h3>Saturday 13th</h3>
48 <p> Mister is pouting.</p>
49 <p>He won't eat,
50 he won't drink. He keeps me on pins and needles.</p>
51 <p>With the help
52 of Max we dig up an email address and a telephone number. Yes, I tell
53 Oz, your parents cared so much that they did not even bother to give
54 us emergency contacts. Sure, they brought the 'vet' cage.</p>
55 <p>We decide to
56 wait until next day, after all 'how to' tells me not to worry about
57 the pouting.</p>
58 <h3>Sunday 14th</h3>
59 <p>
60 still being a
61 jerk. What to do, I did promise to take good care of my charge. First
62 I send an e-mail to Sean. Then Max and I decide to place a call. I call
63 Amber, the poor girl had to think very hard to figure out who on earth
64 'Nadia' was. Then we were fine. I speak with Marco. He says to wait
65 it out. So we do. Marco calls the same night. The news are better.</p>
66 <h3>Monday 15th</h3>
67 <p>He is back shredding and making a royal mess.
68 He prefers the Wal-Mart bags to my Hannaford's for his sand box. He
69 prefers the Queens' newspaper to our 'boony' E.T. with very little exciting
70 news, accepts the O.D. with bruised dignity.</p>
71 <h3>Tuesday 16th</h3>
72 <p>He decides to punish me with loose stools. I
73 set him up all pretty, brush him, shake is little fluffy carpet that
74 is not all that white anymore, clean out, give him fresh hey, new sand
75 and water. 'Boy' does he look well in his big 'mansion'. I turn my back
76 and everything is soiled. <em>Mamma mia</em>.</p>
77 <h3>Wednesday 17th</h3>
78 <p>
79 It is like
80 living in a haunted house on Elm street. Spirits all over 'boo'. Luli
81 is working in the bathroom, Boris is coughing, and Oz is drinking. It
82 is Midnight I am going to bed.</p>
83 <h3>Thursday 18th</h3>
84 <p>
85 Today the care
86 fell a little short, I will catch up on it tomorrow. Every time I would
87 shoot by the cage the little begging snout would pop up, and of course
88 I would kneel down, open the gate and oblige with a stroking. I was
89 busy washing the house outside and clean out the garage from all the
90 season's sand. Lots of work. I hope Oz won't punish me tomorrow.</p>
91 <h3>Friday 19th</h3>
92 <p>
93 Did you enter
94 him in a watermelon pebbles' spitting contest? He is training hard:
95 he now reaches about 4' around his cage.</p>
96 <p>Back to E.T.,
97 he does not shred it; beneath him. We get the O.D. only on weekends.</p>
98 <p>Lull starts
99 at 6 AM to walk all over my face singing and everything. Finally I had
100 to get up. I open the house surrounded by three pairs of stern staring
101 eyes: -Is what you are doing more important than us?-. By nine I had
102 everyone brushed, fed, and changed. Now I will have my breakfast.</p>
103 <p>9:30, I had
104 to scold 'Mister' [it brought back sweet memories of 27 years ago].
105 I could not believe his hate for the Hannaford bags, he was scornfully
106 ripping the bag apart sending the new sand all over the place. He quieted
107 down. I still have <span style="text-decoration: underline">"The Power!"</span></p>
108 <p>"And don't
109 think to sue me because I traumatized him " Weak society".</p>
110 <h3>Saturday 20th</h3>
111 <p>
112 …And
113 what a start it had!</p>
114 <p>My ZOO is active.</p>
115 <p>4 AM Boris,
116 that on Friday did lie around all day indisposed (or half dead), now
117 climbs on my knees and pushes strongly leaping off the bed.</p>
118 <p>I am awake.</p>
119 <p>6 AM Maggia
120 starts her morning dances and vocalizing.</p>
121 <p>"Guys, is Saturday???
122 People like to sleep in!!!"</p>
123 <p>7 AM I am just
124 reaching that peaceful bliss that a horrible noise comes from the kitchen;
125 I think OK now it is Oz's time to do summersaults in his 'mansion' for
126 pure <em>joie de vivre</em>. It sounded
127 like if the cage was thrown across the room. Of course we are up. Max:
128 -what has happened?- The cats have black eyes and their ears bent back
129 in a very stressful way. We mosey out: nothing. What on earth did happen?</p>
130 <p>I declare that
131 I AM GOING BACK TO BED. Max proceeds with the morning's feedings</p>
132 <p>8 AM I have
133 the radio on "a 5.1 earthquake happened at 6:54, lasting 30" Plattsburgh/Albany".
134 <em>Pas mal quoi</em>!</p>
135 <p>-Max tells
136 me that he found some aluminum plates that fell in the cupboard, that
137 was the noise.</p>
138 <p>I clean Oz
139 out perfectly; the basement and the main floor. Brushed, fed, stroked.
140 We are all happy. 3 Seconds later it is a mess inside and out.</p>
141 <p><em>Mamma
142 mia</em>: rabbits belong in the farm yard!</p>
143 <p>I bought him
144 new hey. He was so grateful, leaning in my hand weighing like a brick,
145 I could even hold his front paw,
146 and also stroke him under his chin! Hold his snout. Funny.</p>
147 <h3>Sunday 21st</h3>
148 <p>
149 It is early in
150 the morning. I set the alarm because I go walking with my club. We have
151 a season's breakfast. It is always fun. Max got up even earlier than
152 I. He is feeding the crowd. Boris makes him happy because he takes off
153 'slowly' across the yard to Mamy's and chases a wild rabbit out of the
154 bushes. I get ready and
155 go. It turns out to be such a very nice day but oh! so cold 38F and
156 less, topped by a cold wind. Saw caves and waterfalls behind Owen D.
157 Young's school. There were for the first time Mr.& Mrs Pannes. Came
158 home after 2:30. The 'kids' are all happy, Oz a little dirty, but I
159 am tired, I will take care of him tomorrow.</p>
160 <p>We -all- have
161 dinner. Oz is happy, Maggia too, Boris is slow. GP+A called, and life
162 goes on. Diana called from work.</p>
163 <p>
164 <span style="text-decoration: underline">Information:</span></p>
165 <p>- Mr. Oz likes
166 his crackers whole. He says that if he feels like it, he will break
167 them himself. Does not like remnants. Thank you very much.</p>
168 <p>- Mr. Oz likes
169 his pretty carrot cut in half. The two halves do not sit around in the
170 dirt for long. (I hope they get it, he whispered under his wiskers).</p>
171 <p>- Mr. Oz adores
172 <span style="text-decoration: underline">MY</span> new hey, smells good,
173 nice bedding. Was growing tired on that tasteless old hey; so he said.</p>
174 <p>You better
175 hurry back, you won't recognize him if you delay much longer. Me neither
176 for that matter.</p>
177 <h3>Monday 22nd</h3>
178 <p>
179 I get up with
180 good intentions to promptly keep my promise towards Oz. Not so quickly.
181 Boris is not doing well and Max and I bring him to the veterinary for
182 a 9:45 appointment. He has pneumonia symptoms. Before I could get to
183 Oz, my phone is ringing off the wall: Lotti, Heidy, back to Lotti: the
184 German club has a Birthday party at the residence of a sickly member
185 on College Hill in Clinton (great it is raining, half freezing with
186 hints of snow). I will be the driver. OK now at 11 AM, Boris is in front
187 of the heater, Maggia feeling neglected and abandoned, Max wants my
188 input about a vaporizer that might help Boris breath better, Oz revealing
189 a variety of unthought of stretches for love and attention, I clean
190 his sand get the rest straighten up some. Oz is fine. </p>
191 <p>-Ooff! I need
192 a vacation-.</p>
193 <p>I told him
194 that tomorrow he will have to fill out the <strong>Evaluation
195 sheet </strong>with his comments: <span style="text-decoration: underline">excellent</span>
196 - <span style="text-decoration: underline">good</span> - <span style="text-decoration: underline">poor</span>.
197 I drop some hints to find out his intentions, but he does not disclose
198 any.</p>
199 <p>You delivered
200 him so prime and chaste! I would really like to return him the same
201 way, but I think that my best will be to get the cage, oh! pardon, the
202 'mansion' ready tomorrow night, and hope for the best until Wednesday
203 morning. [I might lose precious points on that sheet]. He won't help
204 me none.</p>
205 <h3>Tuesday 23rd</h3>
206 <p>
207 5 PM the whole
208 'mansion' went through spring cleaning. Boris' vaporizer dispenses a
209 nice mint wave in the home. The O.D. at hand. With his 'butt' in the
210 sun. His eyes semi closed in peaceful dreams. His blanket spiffed up.
211 [I sneaked a cracker and a little parsley to him as pre/dinner treat].
212 He is all ready to receive his parents.</p>
213 <p>I am crossing
214 my fingers. I hope that he does not start to shred the blasted newspaper.</p>
215 <p>It seems that
216 my 'baby sitting' days are approaching the end. Now is poor Boris that
217 is a thorn. He will have all my attention. </p>
218 <p>11 PM last
219 treat for the night, and the changing of the water.</p>
220 <h3>Wednesday 24th</h3>
221 <p>
222 Thank you
223 Oz you kept pretty clean. Hold on old man, soon they will be here.</p>
224 <p>I ask him to
225 show me the <strong>plus and minus </strong>sheet:
226 Oz column and Nid column. He shows it to me with a smile we made out
227 even.</p>
228 <p>Marco and Kathy
229 arrived, happy, with 'the vacation tan'. We have breakfast.</p>
230 <p>………
231 And Oz is gone back to his old digs.</p>
232 <h3>Thursday 25th</h3>
233 <p>
234 I am here feeding eggs to Boris with a syringe, and Maggia circling
235 frantically like a maniac vulture, on food patrol. She feels neglected
236 Not true, how could
237 I!</p>
238 <p>- And life
239 goes on -</p>
240 <p>2002</p>
241 <p><strong>-
242 * - * - * - * -* - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - *
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