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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives. How cute!

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

4 The Love Of Animals

As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. Our first rescue mission was at a business park in Redmond where we saved 650 feral rabbits from the ultimate fate of the arriving bulldozers. Tags: rescue spotlight ferret rabbit rescue rodent.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. And for rodents and reptiles as well. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

10,000 Birds

I will admit that there are legitimate concerns that have been raised about falconry – birds that are not native to an area sometimes escape and become feral; humans should minimize their influence on nature. I catch a glimpse of a small rodent disappearing into a burrow. It disappears into a thick stand of vegetation.