Name: "A Love Like No Otter" from Aquarium Love Stories
Uploaded: 2025-01-10T13:32:36.000Z
Duration: 5 min 55 s
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Gerund

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I get to interact with some amazing animals every day.

And what I enjoy most is that I really do love them, each and every single one of them.

And every single time I get to meet a new animal that I work with, I'm like, yeah, that's it.

And this, this, my friend, is why I love working with sea otters.

Because you've got to be in it to win it.

I have been working with otters for 18 years.

My favorite part when I work with otters is that I just find them so fascinating and fun.

They have a lot of energy, and I feel that I can match that very well.

So when we're training and we're working together, I feel that they are very alert and ready to go.

I first met Gina when I was working at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

And I was always blown away by Gina's passion and love for the animals.

And it really, really shows when you see her engaged with a sea otter.

You just watch her eyes and watch how the otter is watching her very, very closely.

We were taking Bixby and Brighton back home.

And I happened to be there when the phone call came in for Cruz.

And his mother, unfortunately, was killed by a great white shark.

And so he was a little pup out in the middle of the ocean, and he was rescued.

I was invested from the first second of hearing that this little pup is coming in.

And I remember holding him at a two-week-old pup and being asked, well, do you want him?

Yeah, we're going to go ahead and take him.

And then I thought, well, wait, I don't make those decisions.

We should probably actually ask the aquarium.

When we got the call, we knew that, given the situation, there wasn't good options for a home for this sea otter.

And because of that, he was most likely going to be euthanized.

And we knew that him coming here could present some challenges, but at the same time, we didn't want to see that happen.

So we dug deep and we evaluated our animal management plan and figured it out.

When I found out that Cruz was coming to Georgia Aquarium, I felt I won the lottery, period.

I thought, I am never leaving this animal.

This is where I belong, is to take care of him for the rest of his life, forever.

I really did find that this is my lifelong love.

Even when I was three years old, I knew I'm going to work with animals and I'm going to dedicate my entire life to them.

We share the experiences with them and with our guests and other people to want to conserve this species.

And one of my favorite parts when I work with them is I actually really enjoy watching people watch me working with them thinking, I want to be you.

I want to work with that animal and build that relationship.

And with that is where you get that energy from people like, I want to do this and how can I help?

If I could tell you anything, what would I tell you?

He is by far the most important part of my journey in this career because I got a chance to come along with him from the beginning.

I met him when he wasn't in, I would say, a good place.

And if I were him, I think I would probably have been scared.

So I want to tell him, like, I was there the day you came in and I will be with you every day.

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"A Love Like No Otter" from Aquarium Love Stories

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