Animal Services Vet Tech Goes MacGyver

Hungry kids don’t like waiting to eat, and that goes for goats too. When this 10-pound Nubian kid was brought to the Animal Services shelter in Bonita Tuesday, the little thing wanted milk. But the shelter only has to bottle-feed livestock occasionally, and staff discovered they were out of bottles. A quick-thinking employee, Registered Veterinary  Technician Yadira Figueroa, improvised, making a milk bottle from an empty container of Epi-Otic, an ear wash for dogs and cats. The kid gulped happily from Yadira’s bottle and had a full belly for the trip to a foster home later that day.

“Now this is what I call using your brain and getting creative to make things work,” said Animal Services Director Dawn Danielson.