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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Jan Turner took in a raccoon cub delivered by a well-meaning couple determined to get it where it needed to go. They showed me their wounds! The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. The lady didn’t want it to get out.” It was terrified.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

Another time I was wearing gloves, just as I should have been, and an adult raccoon bit through them and took a divot out of my middle finger. When I rescued a mother opossum and her babies from a trashcan full of filthy water, she bit my finger,” said Bettina Bowers. And it wasn’t even the opossum, it was the nasty water.”. “My