10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

” It was half in the gravel and very exposed to the numerous people and dogs who use the trail daily. Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option.

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Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 134

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

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 I started calling her, patting my knees (much like you’d call a dog, for gawd’s sake), “Sophie! Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators'

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Reddit Animals

MAY 6, 2023

2) If the rabbit is in danger such as from your cat or dog try to release it out of the perimeter. You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters don’t normally take wildlife and if they do it’s rare.

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Rabbits Wildlife Rehabilitation Kittens Fox 52

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

MAY 25, 2011

Not long after the move my friend and I were walking our dogs, early in the morning, when the dogs discovered something tiny lying in the middle of the sidewalk. Just to make sure, however, I shooed the dogs away and checked it out. Four several years, I’ve been a volunteer at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.

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Seattle Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Dogs 211

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

Unless she is accompanying her dog, he stays in a fenced-in area. She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. She let her dog out, he spotted the rabbit, and took off like a bullet. All her pets are rescues. She keeps her cats inside.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Bird brought in by a cat or dog. Even if you do not see an obvious wound, cat or dog saliva, which is full of nasty bacteria, can still get into a bird’s eyes/orifices and will eventually kill the bird; it will just die more slowly and painfully. Suspect” dog or cat interactions. *Emergency! Sometimes you will not see any blood.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

If you have a very small dog, be careful and use common sense. But they were abysmally ignorant, not only of the facts but of the damage that can be done by posting something so stupid. Predators have a hard enough time surviving without having to deal with the fallout from something they’re incapable of even doing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Cat and dog rescuers share with wildlife rehabilitators the unfortunate burden of healing the hurt caused by other humans. Like many people who grew up in my era, our childhood dogs and cats went outdoors. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. And, I would have understood.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 211

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. It is without question an unpleasant way to die for any animal.

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