Loving lab work
Watching Julie Holdcraft work with her lab, Birdie, is like watching kids play the game “red light, green light.”
Holdcraft, 18, keeps a whistle in her mouth while her dad or mom fling a hunk of rubber tied to a piece of rope as far as they can.
The object represents a duck that got caught in a hunter’s sights.
Birdie’s job is to keep track of where the objects land. She does this while sitting patiently next to Holdcraft. But she’s also wound up like a spring, ready to uncoil.