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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I I had the snot bitten out of my thumb by a squirrel who didn’t want a bath,” said Shannon Keith. “I When I rescued a mother opossum and her babies from a trashcan full of filthy water, she bit my finger,” said Bettina Bowers. asked Johanna Walton. “My

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A New Use For Those BBQ Tongs

Animal Person

I don't know if she was being sarcastic, but in my town I see dead armadillos, opossums, raccoons, all manner of turtles, and squirrels dead in the middle of the road frequently. I tweeted about a similar incident about a month ago and someone replied that she was glad there was someone fighting for the safe-dining rights of hawks.

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