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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies. AHNow’s database includes wildlife rehabilitators, rescues and hotlines, as well as veterinarians who treat wildlife. Animal Help Now, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, was founded in Colorado in 2011.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”.

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Frank Gilbert’s Awesome Hospital Cage

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One summer my father came to visit from his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. When using a regular hospital cage, the wildlife rehabilitator reaches in, picks up the bird, transfers him to another cage, cleans the original one, then returns the bird. Birds wild bird caging wild bird hospital wildlife rehabilitators'

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Shutting Your Trap

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The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. A recent thread on my Raptorcare listserv produced one wildlife rehabilitator’s nightmarish photo of a leghold trap firmly clutching the leg of a Great Horned Owl.

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Intake

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Yes, wildlife rehabilitators hate those things, especially when they fly off the bird and under your shirt, which they are prone to do. The day I brought him home, two of my 17-year-old daughter’s friends were visiting from Colorado. He was strong enough to grab my glove with his foot and hang on. What happened?”

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My Favorite Release

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So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators' Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far.