10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2014
It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator! Milk + Wildlife = Big Mistake.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2015
Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. Salami for an American Kestrel, salted popcorn for a baby squirrel,” wrote Sigrid Warren. “I The baffling, mind-boggling public.
Reddit Animals
MAY 6, 2023
You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters don’t normally take wildlife and if they do it’s rare. 3) Rabbits have one of the highest caloric milks among mammals so cows milk isn’t going to cut it. It’s just not their function and against a few rules. I recommend Fox Valley.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2016
Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. I had the snot bitten out of my thumb by a squirrel who didn’t want a bath,” said Shannon Keith. “I Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter.
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