Eastern Shore Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, shore wildlife mammal rehab

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Kathy Cummings * Keller, Virginia * 757-442-7665 or 757-709-1840 * * Wildlife Rehab Permit Number 028007

Check below for current updates. Does that wild child really need help? Nuisance Wildlife How You Can Help Update Archive A BIG Thank You Main Page ________________		What is Wildlife Rehabilitation? Wildlife rehabilitation or rescue is taking in injured or baby wildlife and rehabilitating them so they can be released back into the wild as soon as possible. I am licensed to just do mammals (including rabies vector) but do take every type of animal or reptile or birds. I have resources in the Virginia Beach area licensed for the birds. They will take them when I get them, including eagles and hawks. How We Do It (very, very short version) Feedings depend on the age and condition of babies, some needing formula as often as once every three hours. Babies must be kept fed, warm, cozy and, as they get older, even challanged. Babies need to be trained to live independently in the wild before release. The goal is to make everyanimal coming into our care an animal that can live happily and as safely as possible in the wild Release cages for the animal's re-entry into the wild are placed in various parts of the woods or fields so the animal can slowly adjust to release and its surroundings before being turned loose again in the wild. See the play pen for the little guys
		LATEST UPDATES: 20 April '08 Last week we had three beautiful baby otters comer in from some very caring folks in northern Accomack county. Their eyes are still closed but have made the transition well. They are being rehabilitated in Va. Beach by a caring rehabber with another single baby who needed somes buddies! Unfortuntately, with so many to care for and so little resources on our side of the water, we could not keep our little otters. Cost to feed a baby otter to release age has been estimated by an experienced otter replacement mom at $1000.00 for the amount of fish they eat and because they are not released until late fall or spring. We are in need of a large used freezer to store this much fish. Our one freezer is curently full of food for the raptors and other mammals we take in. We are also looking for a good source of fish that won't bankrupt us. I hope that by the time we get our next otter children, we will have the resources to keep them on our side of the Bay for rehabbing and more importantly for release!!! Hope some caring folks can lend a hand. THANKS. And a big 'thank you' for all you have done. Several weeks ago we took in a baby great horned owl that had been blown from its nest. This was the first time we received such a small owl; only a few days old. No nest was seen or family members found. That's a shame because many times they can be replaced in the nest. Then Lisa got in her own baby G.H. Owl so we combined the two because it is better for them to be raised with siblings - they imprint on people very easily. Last week(you guessed it) another baby Owl about the same age as the first group. His wing had been broken in his fall but he is doing great now and all three are growing so fast!!!!! They are in Va. Beach now - doing well. The only sad casualty is my food processor, the one I got for Christmas. It became the aid to processing frozen mice for the owls, once they were gutted and skinned. My husband, Jack is laughing, saying he never thought I would be skinning MICE!!!!!! So my Christmas food processor is now officially for the critters. My friends tell me they won't be buying anything food related at my yard sales!!!!! <G> Call us any time - we are always here for the wild ones!!!! Bye for now, Kathy UPDATE ARCHIVE