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

10,000 Birds

Here are some examples of when a bird definitely needs your help and a call to a federally permitted bird rehabilitator is warranted. Bird brought in by a cat or dog. Suspect” dog or cat interactions. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? So: When do you intervene?

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Scarlett The Cat: From Homeless To A Hero

4 The Love Of Animals

Being homeless, at first, this cat became one of the top-figures in press, both newspapers and TVs: even Oprah Winfrey has talked about her in own talk-show! One could only imagine how much pain the cat experienced while getting over the fire! The cat was sent to the intensive care immediately and placed in an oxygen chamber.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

10,000 Birds

We’ll start with Haroni-Rusitu first as this is the least accessible and most remote site but it is also one of the last examples of lowland evergreen forest left in the country. On one of my two trips to Haroni we were driving along the road when we came across a Serval, a medium-sized and beautifully marked cat.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

I had a Pileated Woodpecker who used to jab at my hand whenever I needed to rewrap her bandages,” says Maureen Eiger, providing a perfect example of a single rehabber struggling to hold and wrap at the same time. But life is not perfect. “I Finally I got some fingerless padded baseball gloves.”. “I

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H. J. McCloskey on Punishment of Cruelty to Animals

Animal Ethics

We accept that the state has the right to ban cruelty to animals, even when such cruelty is in the interests of the person being cruel, for example, of the greyhound owner who trains his dog on cats, first removing the cat's claws to protect his dog from injury, or of the householder who half-starves his dog so that he can have an extra beer or two, (..)

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