Week 69: Seriously?

Finals this week. We have every final happening this week since next week is the much anticipated trip to San Diego! Not a lot going on besides lots of people studying and freaking out about it all. There it was though, on Friday, we took our last Gary final ever. Pretty nice. The only written tests we have left to take in the program will be for vet classes next semester.
However, again on Friday, we were all left a little saddened and scratching our heads at the sheer number of losses we've seen as a class. During morning area, Decoy, our wood duck, was found deceased. Cause is yet to be determined, but we are certain he was also quite old. Later that day, one of our blue and gold macaws, Rio, was taken to the vet so they could get a check on how some polyps in her digestive tract were doing, never woke up from the anesthesia. That's two in one day. I wasn't really attached to either of the animals, so it didn't hit me particularly hard, but it's still sad to know that we continue to lose animals at such a rapid rate and we haven't really gained anything to replace them with. Our shrinking collection is really quite sad and we are all holding our breaths that something else doesn't leave us while we're on our field trip. (Pics: a wood duck [not Decoy], Rio, Dolphins from Six Flags: Discovery Kingdom)