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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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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. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”.

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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.

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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. Birds white dove release wildlife rehabilitators' After a few days they will die of starvation, unless a predator gets them first. Blow bubbles, people!

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. Neighbor A calls the police, and they tell her there is nothing they can do.

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The Medicine Bird

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“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. This is why certain wildlife rehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. Birds Albino leghold traps leucistic Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators'

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Terry, Ray, and Veronica’s Vulture

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She made the 10 or 14 calls it usually takes to find a wildlife rehabilitator, finally finding me. When he felt better he moved from his hospital crate to my outside flight, where he could stretch his wings and not have to suffer the indignity of being picked up and moved each day for crate cleaning.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. Sort Of.

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At first I peered out apprehensively, just waiting to spot somebody dragging a wing or weaving around drunkenly, suffering from an obvious head injury; but miraculously the birds were all hale, hearty, and minding their own business. Birding Birds Destinations France La Reserve Ornithologique du Teich wildlife rehabilitation'