10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

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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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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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Rabbits Wildlife Rehabilitation Rabbit Rescue Rescue 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. Go ahead and check out his company, Southern Wildlife Resources LLC. No wonder his state office answering machine has a message on it expounding on the delicious meat of the sandhill crane. That dog don’t hunt.

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Hunting Kentucky Broker Protest 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

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. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.

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