10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

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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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 224

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. As for nice clothing … right! People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Michele rushed him to the vet, where x-rays revealed the anklet had passed through his crop, through his proventriculus, and into his ventriculus.

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Birds 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Abandon Abandoning 232

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option. A different Hoary Bat, on a better day. It turns out, helping a bat is hard. Animal Control was on the way.

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Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 132

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. Yeah right! My vets wanted to send me to the ER immediately, but I said ‘Forget it, I’ve got the damned bird restrained so I’m not letting go now!’

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. One might say the heart of the person who wrote the flyer was in the right place.

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Pets Barn Owls Kentucky Bald Eagle 240