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Vulture vs. Bunny

10,000 Birds

Soon she was lolling on her back on Skye’s bed, exposing her pale, vulnerable stomach in a way most well-adjusted rabbits refuse to do, let alone ones who have been hauled around by their ears en route to the meat market. Wildlife rehabilitators all have their own cuteness appreciation levels, and black vultures send me over the top.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He Mourning Doves fed cheerios, raptors fed hot dogs, infant squirrels fed watered down peanut butter because squirrels eat peanuts at the feeder, right?”

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?” ” one.