10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

She made the 10 or 14 calls it usually takes to find a wildlife rehabilitator, finally finding me. As I carried him to the car I looked into a towering pine tree across the street, and at least 30 of his friends and family looked back at me. “He This gorgeous guy was hit by a car, I’m guessing, in a town south of me.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

Skye wore a long-suffering expression, while Bau-Hien – whose parents had settled in Texas after leaving Vietnam – regarded me with a mixture of fascination and alarm. The mission of wildlife rehabilitators is to return injured birds to the sky, or the sea, or wherever it is they came from. Soon the girls emerged.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

Four several years, I’ve been a volunteer at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. The chickadee that I discovered on the sidewalk was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia. And that he brought his friends and family back to my feeders. Just to make sure, however, I shooed the dogs away and checked it out.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Your posts for 10,000 Birds took us into the unique world of wildlife rehabilitation. Can you share your most memorable experience as a wildlife rehabber? I can run but I can’t hide. The book is darkly funny.

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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. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. It’s tribal and familial.

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