{"id":5558,"date":"2022-06-08T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:09:27","slug":"luck-and-buckets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/luck-and-buckets\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck and Buckets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to more Cook County adventures! This week, our goal was to set up traps for soft shells and hopefully catch a few of them!<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, we went out to set traps. Because it didn\u2019t take us long to set them up, Dr. Kaitlin and I got invited to help with fawning! We met up with a team of students and walked through fields trying to catch any glimpse of brown fur in the brush. After about an hour of searching, it looked like we wouldn\u2019t be lucky that day\u2014until BAM! Out of nowhere we see a fawn booking it towards the other side of the tree line! Luckily, we had a few students over there already, so they caught the fawn in no time. We tagged him, took a few swabs, and sent him on his way. Upon release, he tripped over the big bucket of lab stuff that the biologists carried with them. So, naturally, we named this fawn \u201cbuckets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, we had a HUGE day. We had biologist Sam helping us out with trapping as well. However, we weren\u2019t the only ones trying to find out what we had in our traps today. Two videographers were tasked to follow us around and take footage of me and Dr. Kaitlin\u2019s work. They were filming a documentary about zoonotic diseases\u2014so we are going to be on TV! Alright, back to the turtles. Softshell turtles are known to be VERY hard to trap\u2026 but we got 5 in our trap in one day! I mean, usually we get 2-3 turtles in a trap at a time. But get this\u2014one trap had 3 snappers, 3 soft shells, and a painted! How crazy is that? Dr. Kaitlin and I returned to the lab and ran all the bloodwork on them. It was a super busy day, but it was good to know that our traps were set up in the right spot to catch these softshells!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5559 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-200x149.png 200w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-400x298.png 400w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-600x448.png 600w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-800x597.png 800w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-1024x764.png 1024w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM-1200x895.png 1200w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.59.46-PM.png 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5560 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-224x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-200x268.png 200w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-400x536.png 400w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-600x805.png 600w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-764x1024.png 764w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-768x1030.png 768w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM-800x1073.png 800w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-3.00.03-PM.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oops\u2026 spoke too soon. On Thursday and Friday, our luck ran out. We caught 1 softshell and found no other turtles in the traps! But one softshell is better than none, right? We are hoping for a good week of trapping next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to more Cook County adventures! This week, our goal was to set up traps for soft shells and hopefully catch a few of them! On Tuesday, we went out to set traps. Because it didn\u2019t take us long to set them up, Dr. Kaitlin and I got invited to help with fawning! 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