Wildlife
Emergency Care.
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This is a true wildlife emergency |
Is it an emergency? Not every
critter you have found needs your help. Some mothers leave there young
alone most of the day and only return for feeding and cleaning, while
others are very near by all the time. If the critter does not show any
of the symptoms below, and you know what the critter is, please go to that
page for more in-depth information. |
If the critter shows any of the symptoms below it needs immediate help:
- Bleeding
- Convulsing
- Unconscious
- Has been attacked by a cat or dog
- Has been shot
- Has a broken leg
- Has been burned
- Is very weak and or staggering, etc.
- Has swallowed chemicals like
antifreeze
- Caught in fishing line, plastic soda
rings, etc.
- Has a fishhook in the mouth or body
- Is covered in oil or other substance
- Eyes are crusted shut, appear to be
blind
- Parents are known to be dead,
injured or ill
- Is in a trap, trapped in a vehicle,
etc.
How to Contact a Rehabilitator and Why
If you cannot locate a rehabber in your
area please contact your conservation office, vet clinic, humane
society, animal shelter, or use
Wildlife International's Rehab Search. If you are still having
trouble please contact the
Symbiotic Wildlife Rehabilitation Society
for more information.
Most of these critters can be very cute but keeping the animal is
discouraged because of many reasons.
- The main reason is a rehabilitator
knows the correct way to care for the wild one, from the correct
formula, to teaching the critter how to be wild. If the critter does
not learn how to be afraid of predators (humans) it will not survive
and can never be returned to the wild.
- To keep a wild one as a pet is also
illegal. You must have permits from local, state, and/or federal
governments to keep these animals. Wildlife rehabilitators have these
permits.
- There are diseases that can be
passed from wild animals to you, and your pets, and vice versa. A rehabilitator is trained in these diseases and the proper way to
protect the animal and everyone around it.
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