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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. Hidden by camera angle is hitch on back for wildlife trailer.).

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Releasing White Doves

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Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. Mine are always found near the local funeral home,” says Maureen Eiger, in Virginia. “I Birds white dove release wildlife rehabilitators' And weddings?

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Glue Trapped

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Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.