Animals I work with
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JanieDough
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lol you SAID I could ask!!!
I just think it's cool. Except the car accident parts.
WIRES lady? cam elle toe
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lol you SAID I could ask!!!
I just think it's cool. Except the car accident parts.
I know.....WIRES is Wildlife Information REScue ....a lady at my work cares for injured wildlife...and we get heaps..
Actually...you;ll like this one...Theres a bloke they take our turtles to when they get run over and their shell gets squashed. He is able to somehow "superglue" (obviously he doesnt use super glue) it back together.
I saw one of his success stories the other day..apparently it can take up to a year for the shell to "take" and stay together..does that sound right.
Peter Parka
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I like eating kangaroos, very nice, bit like venison.:licklips:
Cool photos.
I've worked voluntary at pets corner but didn't have to deal with anything quite that exotic, mainly rare breeds of farm animals. Used to have to take the shire horses out to pasture and they are absolute giants but pretty docile.
Cool photos.
I've worked voluntary at pets corner but didn't have to deal with anything quite that exotic, mainly rare breeds of farm animals. Used to have to take the shire horses out to pasture and they are absolute giants but pretty docile.
JanieDough
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WIRES is Wildlife Information REScue ....a lady at my work cares for injured wildlife...and we get heaps..
Actually...you;ll like this one...Theres a bloke they take our turtles to when they get run over and their shell gets squashed. He is able to somehow "superglue" (obviously he doesnt use super glue) it back together.
I saw one of his success stories the other day..apparently it can take up to a year for the shell to "take" and stay together..does that sound right.
there's a guy in florida that does that.
This one turtle he found was about to lay a clutch, but she got ran over. He literally took the eggs out of her, patched her up, incubated the eggs and managed to save the mom and four of the babies!
MadScientistSA
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We save animals that people either took as pets and gave up, or from zoos closing down and have nowhere else to send the animals, or situations like that.
The bear was someone's pet. He couldn't afford the $100 formula a month for him. If it costs $100 a month at 2 months old, just imagine how much a 4-month old bear eats, when it's 4 times the size.
One of the tigers were a Christmas gift from some grandparents to a 5-year old girl in Tulsa. :eek
The animals stay with us until they die, or until they get a better home from someone who has the means and desire to actually raise the animal until they die.
freakofnature
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What kind of grandparents give their 5 year old grandchild a tiger for Christmas??? :unsure: :willy_nilly:
MadScientistSA
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You don't think it's a smart, rational idea for a gift? Who WOULDN'T want to give their 5-year old grandchild a tiger?!
freakofnature
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Personally, I'd prefer a cheetah.
JanieDough
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that's pretty cool. the animals are well taken care of? the cages look kind of small...
MadScientistSA
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Most of the cages are no smaller than the room they would get in a zoo. Granted, that amount of space is small, but it's either be in smaller cage, or not be alive.
A few of the cages are smaller because they're being confined for medical procedures or they're waiting for a bigger cage to be built. We only get money from admissions and donations. So during the winter months when very few people come to see the animals, building goes on hold and we use the money for food for them.
They're VERY well taken care of. Most of the animals seem very happy.
JanieDough
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I'm sorry - I didn't mean to seem to criticize or seem to look for something to criticize. I was amazed at something like your organization existing! i think it's pretty cool and I would be beyond impressed if they had a cage larger than my room! which is why I was asking - I know funding for that stuff can be hard.
Sounds like they do awesome though! very cool!
does anyone interact with the larger animals?
MadScientistSA
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Oh, you'll have to try harder than that to offend me.
Yeah, we interact with the larger animals. Obviously precautions have to be taken with the big cats.... more than one person has to be around every single time, and we have a waterhose on hand to scare them away if they get too frisky, and mace if they get even friskier. That won't be enough in some situations, so if we see that a particular animal is in a bad mood, we just don't interact with them that day. We're very careful. Most of them have lockout areas too, in case we need to go in without them around. We don't do that every day, though. Once or twice a week.
We have smaller "big cats" too, like cougars and bobcats and caracals and servals... they could potentially hurt us, so we have to still take precautions, but we interact with them almost daily.
The bears are usually pretty docile, until recently. They're not happy about the baby bear being around. We've been locking them out until they're happier about the baby, but we still pet them through the fence.
The wolves are like overgrown, hyper, happy dogs, so we always go in with them and play.
We have other big animals, but they're not carnivores. A camel that thinks she's a human, and the kangaroos are as spoiled as a pet dog. They wouldn't hurt us even if we poked them with a stick.
JanieDough
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:homo::nod:
i love bears and wolves!!! I would love to play with them!
and i've never met a camel or a kangaroo - not up close in person!!
MadScientistSA
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beautiful! why are his stripes so light?
She's a golden tabby tiger. Her name is Shammi, and she used to be Mike Tyson's pet, before he went broke.
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