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Okay, so any vacation for a wildlife rehabilitator is a magical one, but taking a vacation with a company that cares about the environment just adds more pixie dust to getting away! When deciding on a vacation, a cruise is certainly a good way to go. If you want to look at low environmental impact vacations, a cruise may not be your first thought. It may not even be your hundredth thought- big ships with thousands of people generating waste and doing who k
Growing up, I always wanted to be a veterinarian. I would watch the vet shows on Animal Planet. I also had a small zoo in my house- dogs, cats, fish, parrots, hamsters, and an iguana. I've always loved animals and I wanted to take care of them. I found out that you needed to be in college for a long time to become a veterinarian and my dreams were crushed. It seemed too long to be in school and I wouldn't be able to afford it.
Fast forward to present da...
Rodenticides by definition are any agents that kill, repel or control rodents. Wikipedia defines rodenticides as "pest control chemicals intended to kill rodents". Many rodenticides, in fact most used in the United States, include anticoagulants as the primary ingredient. Anticoagulants are usually classified as first generation or second generation.
Those classified as second generation have a much longer duraiton of action and include brodifacoum and
It's very interesting how certain events in your life stick with you and are easier to recall than others. Even though it has been fifteen years, I remember the first time I helped a wild animal in distress like it was yesterday.
I had just started volunteering for my local wildlife rehabilitation center and was on my way home after spending four hours feeding baby squirrels and cleaning their enclosures. That first summer I dubbed myself "The S...
Not long ago, someone asked my advice about a bee hive in her yard. I contacted Ruth Brooks at Freedom Center for Wildlife and she steered me to the New Jersey Beekeepers Association. I knew there was a crisis in the honey bee population, but I learned a whole lot more - including that the honeybee is New Jersey's State insect, and that it's illegal to kill them in the Garden State. Most North American honeybees are the gentle, Italian variety. Honeybees w...
When some people think of wildlife rehabilitation, they only think of the hands-on animal care given and the prospect of that animal being released.
But with these tasks comes the responsibility of helping the person who found the animal and educating them with the information needed to help it. One such opportunity came to us two years ago; it began with the best intentions, but due to bad information and no experience with a wild animal, could have tu...
