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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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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. “It didn’t really hurt until my co-worker pried him off and the talon came out of the hole. When I flushed it out, it was as close to fainting as I’ve ever come.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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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! “A pinky mouse…a day or two old… in a dishwasher box,” wrote Cindy Sobels Sniecinski in Michigan. The lady didn’t want it to get out.” It was terrified.”.

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The Medicine Bird

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What is important to this particular hawk, though, is not the color of the feathers on her body but of the bandages on her feet, as she was caught in a double leg hold trap set for raccoons. I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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Rehabbers see reptiles in glue traps, gulls entangled in fishing line, raccoons used as target practice, raptors dying from rodenticides, and songbirds shredded by domestic cats … cats like Puck. They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. They simply helped me with my bird.

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