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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

10,000 Birds

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Bird brought in by a cat or dog. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP. Suspect” dog or cat interactions. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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Kermie

Animal Person

When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Outside he went, transported in plastic, back to his home in the wilds of suburban West Palm Beach.