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JUNE 1, 2022
VOL. 103, NO. 21
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Guinea pig dumped in Interbay now being fostered
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By Jessica Keller
FALLING AWAKE
QA&Mag News editor
A fluffy orange guinea pig is getting a new lease on life after being rescued by a Magnolia woman who is fostering the little furball until his forever home can be found. The guinea pig was actually first discovered May 16 by a person walking in Interbay who noticed the little guy sitting in the brambles on West Wheeler Street. She posted to the social media site Next Door letting people know about the guinea pig’s predicament in hopes somebody could save the animal, which she said she could not take home at that time. While many people voiced their distress, Magnolia wildlife rehabilitator and animal lover Cindy Rio-Rados was ready to answer the call. Rio-Rados, who uses the site to check on lost pet reports, said when she read the post about the guinea pig she was immediately concerned. “I said, ‘Oh, my gosh, it’s not going to survive,’” she said. Hoping she could locate the distressed animal, Rio-Rados drove to the location given in the post at 11 p.m. May 16 and
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Photo by Cindy Rio-Rados After being dumped by a former owner in Interbay and left to fend for himself among the brambles and muck, Oliver the guinea pig received a different, safer look at the city from the safety of Cindy Rio-Rados’s arms recently. Rio-Rados, a wildlife rehabilitator, is fostering the formerly down-on-his-luck furball until he can be adopted by a ‘furever’ family. searched the brambles for 15 minutes. She had just decided to give up when she noticed something in her headlights. At first, she assumed it was a leftover wild rabbit that didn’t bolt with all the others when she drove up, but wondered
why it didn’t run, so she got out of her car to check it out. Rio-Rados said she discovered the guinea pig in sitting quietly among the brambles and covered with muddy sewage and showing signs of early stages of hypothermia.
“So, I just ran out there and dove into the brambles and grabbed him,” Rio-Rados said. When she got him home, RioRados sponge-bathed the piggy,
SEE OLIVER, PAGE 4
Seattle Opera makes inclusivity a priority with upcoming sensory-friendly performance By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor Seattle Opera is prioritizing inclusivity with a sensory-friendly performance of “Earth to Kenzie” at 11 a.m. Sunday. “Earth to Kenzie” is part of Seattle Opera’s summer programming designed to appeal to youth and families, but for Sunday’s sensory-friendly performance, Seattle Opera hired sensory friendly consultant Tiffany Sparks-Keeney to make “Earth to Kenzie” accessible and enjoyable for children with different sensory needs. Sparks-Keeney is an occupa-
tional therapist and OT professor at the University of Puget Sound who has consulted with Seattle Children’s Theater on sensory friendly performances in the past, most recently “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.” “As a sensory-friendly consultant, I help make theater and arts experiences as accessible and enjoyable to as many people as possible,” Sparks-Keeney said. When she is asked to consult, Sparks-Keeney said she comes to a theater, watches a performance and identifies aspects of a performance that create heightened sensation — bright lights, loud or
tense music or background noise, emotional content — things that may affect people with greater sensitivities. She notes what measures can be taken to address to those certain issues, such as keeping the house lights on at half or reducing the sound in key moments, which she shares with theater production staff. She also develops a plan that accommodates individual needs, such as creating an area where children can walk around as they watch or establishing a separate space for children who need to disengage
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