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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

“I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. 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!”. “I’d

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

Rehabbers see reptiles in glue traps, gulls entangled in fishing line, raccoons used as target practice, raptors dying from rodenticides, and songbirds shredded by domestic cats … cats like Puck. Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice.

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