A Wildlife Walk to Remember!
On Sunday, September 28th, our supporters gathered for a beautiful day to celebrate wildlife at the Seminary Retreat and Conference Center! The annual Wildlife Walk is our organization’s favorite event of the year allowing us to showcase the important work we do in both wildlife rehabilitation and conservation education. Nearly 400 participants had the opportunity to visit multiple educational stations featuring reptiles, mammals and birds of prey. Participants learned about the importance of wildlife habitat and what they can do to Re-Wild their yards to be wildlife friendly! Kids and adults alike enjoyed meeting our ambassador animals in our Birds of Prey presentations & Story time readings. Attendees also had the opportunity to get creative with wildlife-themed crafts and face painting!
Thank you to our generous sponsors, our volunteers, staff and our enthusiastic participants for making this event a great success year after year!
Patient Spotlight
This handsome male opossum was a recent admission from a member of the public who cared so much for this animal. This opossum had an unfortunate accident that occurred as a result of a humane trap. His finder was quite familiar with the opossum who had been making his yard his home for the past two years. When the opossum started to spend time around the caller’s ducks and quail, he rightfully became concerned for their well-being and decided to set a trap to humanely relocate the opossum. While humane trapping often sounds like a good idea to those that do not want to harm a wild animal, the truth about trapping is it often is not humane. While typically animals are not harmed by the traps themselves, the act of relocating an animal to a new territory often results in disorientation, territorial disputes with resident wildlife and ultimately death to the relocated animal.
In the case of this opossum, he actually did become injured by the trap which lacerated his nose when he was trying to escape. The very concerned member of the public contacted us for help and transported the opossum right away to our center. Fortunately, while the injury appeared gruesome, with treatment it was healing well in just a few days time. With a little education and a whole lot of effort, the homeowner was able to better secure his ducks and quail and happily agreed to take the opossum back home to his yard to release!
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