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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

10,000 Birds

To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. There’s the popular JAR: just ain’t right. On top of all her other chores, Donna had to swing by the vet (yet again) to pick up medicine for him.

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Those Freakin’ Flat Flies

10,000 Birds

Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. Flat flies and vulture vomit: either one can send an otherwise cheerful vet technician running from the room. I arrived home with a nice inch-long incision right between my eyebrows, and found a car parked in my driveway.