Another goodbye...

So another week's ended. Had a great time, although there were definitely some sad moments.

On Wednesday, Lek brought aother kitten to the park who was in pretty rough shape. I'm guessing she was about 7 or 8 weeks old, but was so thin & weak that you could feel every bone in her body & when you looked at her neck, you could actually see the red lines of the muscles. I was charged with looking after her. She wouldn't take any food, and was incredibly dehydrated, so I gave her a mixture of water, salt & sugar every half hour. She seemed to gain a bit of energy in the evening, and even wandered around my room a little, but when I woke up at 3 am, she had really gone downhill. Stayed up the rest of the night, but unfortunately she passed away around noon the next day. I burried her in the garden & made a little inukshuk to mark her grave. At least her suffering has ended.

Said goodbye to Katerina on Saturday. She's heading back home (currently Malaysia) on Tuesday, so she had to get back to Bangkok. We had a really good time together, so the park seemed a whole lot quieter after she left.

We were expecting 4 new elephants at the park (2 babies & their mothers) a couple days ago, but things seem to be running true to Thai time - no one's sure where they are, and it'll likely be another few weeks before they arrive. We lost an elephant this week as well - Boon Rod's owners came to collect her to take her back to a life of carrying tourists. Doesn't sound that bad, until you see how they go about training an elephant to carry tourists....