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Wildlife
I teach people about the wildlife around them, drawing on years of hands-on rehabilitation work.
What I do now
I focus almost entirely on educating the public, through the Wildlife Clinic website and by giving talks in the community.
It draws on years of extensive hands-on experience. I remain a licensed rabies-vector-species (RVS) wildlife rehabilitator, but I have retired from that work, and our physical clinic is no longer operating.
An Animal Institute project
The Wildlife Clinic
Our primary wildlife resource is a website, the Animal Institute’s Wildlife Clinic. Its aim is its tagline: understand the wildlife around you.
The Animal Institute is our family’s all-volunteer 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit animal protection organization.
Found an animal?
What to do right now, and how to find a licensed rehabilitator.A wildlife problem?
Many conflicts with wildlife can be resolved without trapping, killing or relocation.Understand what you saw
Animal behavior is often misunderstood. What looks like aggression is usually fear.The Wildlife Clinic is an educational project and does not accept animals. If an animal needs care, contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.
From the hands-on years
Pandora the Raccoon
Pandora was an orphaned raccoon whom I raised from a kit. This is me playing with her as a juvenile, when she was approximately the equivalent of a human 8 year old. She would grow up and eventually be released as a completely wild animal who wouldn't even consider playing with me as an adult.
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Amaretto the Red FoxFeeding Amaretto, a red fox suffering from sarcoptic mange, on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.- Pandora the RaccoonPandora was an orphaned raccoon whom I raised from a kit. This is me playing with her as a juvenile, when she was approximately the equivalent of a human 8 year old. She would grow up and eventually be released as a completely wild animal who wouldn't even consider playing with me as an adult.