10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

No hawk can carry off a 12-pound pet. No hawk can carry off a 3-pound pet. That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. THESE ARE THE PETS THAT HAWKS CAN SWOOP DOWN AND GRAB.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. Ipsen of Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, Utah, is our wildlife vet and very skilled at orthopedic surgeries. Our veterinarian, Dr. Jay D.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. If you see a wild bird in danger, call a wildlife rehabilitator. Will all rescued animals survive to have a happy ending? There was a time when our domestic pets were treated like objects.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

People who want to release birds on the cheap buy doves – usually Ring-necked Doves – from pet stores, and release them themselves. Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. Why do this?”.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

“I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA. This is why certain wildlife rehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. Birds Albino leghold traps leucistic Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

My friend Nina is an animal lover. All her pets are rescues. She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. She keeps her cats inside. Unless she is accompanying her dog, he stays in a fenced-in area. We have a cat that is a hummingbird murderer.”

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