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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

This is a guest post from Cherie, and I think that it is something everyone who rescues animals needs to read. A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. Thanks Cherie!

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Glue Trapped

10,000 Birds

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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Andean Condors On The News

10,000 Birds

As Chilean officials and volunteers rescued 17 birds they noticed the birds were foaming from the beak. Later it was determined these condors suffered from organophosphate poisoning after they were exposed to insecticides used for agriculture. Other birds were seen crash landing. Another sick condor and two dead ones were found nearby.

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Lightning Storms and Eagles

10,000 Birds

We are off to rescue a Bald Eagle, kiddo!” We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. “Hurry,” he told the sheriff. This eagle is not long for this world.”.

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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

Critter News

While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. There's no doubt across that scale of landscape and given the intensity of the fires, millions of animals would have been killed," he said.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. In the past nine months, R&R has collected 4,807 items weighing 2,360.5 pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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Consider the Chickadee

10,000 Birds

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. The chickadee that I discovered on the sidewalk was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.

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