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Breaking a Habit of Abuse — The campaign to end the “Possum Drop” in western North Carolina

Abuse, Advocacy, Uncategorized, Wildlife Rehabilitation

Co-Authored with Kathleen McCurdy, Concerned North Carolina Citizen and Member of Team Millie. Team Millie is a cooperative effort led by Animal Help Now and The Opossum’s Pouch Sanctuary, Rescue and Rehabilitation, seeking year-round protection for opossums in North Carolina.…

Dave
November 21, 2019
6 Comments

Euthanasia: The Quiz.

Uncategorized

It’s time for a new term. Anthrothanasia, perhaps? Euthanasia is defined as a kind death, generally applying to animals outside our own species, mostly to our animal companions, whom we deem to no longer have (or to soon no longer…

Dave
October 19, 2019
4 Comments

Careful What You Prune and Fell

Birds, Humane Living, Living with Wildlife, Orphaned wildlife, Raccoons, Squirrels, Wildlife Rescue

With apologies to Mr. Kilmer: I know I must look hard to seeA squirrel’s nest in a leafy treeRaccoon dens, too, elude my sightAs tree trunks reach their tow’ring heights Most of us know by now that landscape and tree…

Dave
September 17, 2019

Orphaned raccoons being transported to safety

A hidden crisis, an abundance of opportunity

Injured wildlife, Raccoons, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescue

(They’re safe.) Another baby/busy season is well under way, and again we at Animal Help Now are deluged with reminders that even in an age of increasing appreciation for wildlife, the critical work of wildlife rehabilitation remains woefully under-appreciated, under-supported,…

Dave
July 2, 2019

A fate worse than death, then death

"nuisance" wildlife, Humane Living, Living with Wildlife, Rodents

I’ll not soon forget one of my heroes – Jon Stewart, then host of The Daily Show – giggling while airing a video of a skunk or raccoon with her head stuck in a jar of peanut butter or some…

Dave
July 1, 2019

raptor rehab, ballston spa veterinary clinic

Ethics: Killing One Animal to Save Another

Ethics, Wildlife Rehabilitation

A big ethical issue in rehab is the killing of one animal to support the rehabilitation of another. As far as I can tell, not a lot of people are talking about this, but I think it’s something each of…

Dave
May 3, 2019
3 Comments

Of Opossum “Drops” and Less Obvious Affronts

Abuse, Advocacy, Wildlife

Note: For an update on Millie, the opossum referenced below, and on the “opossum drop” itself, see our Nov 2019 blog, here. The ridiculous, cruel and anachronistic opossum “drop” in Andrews, North Carolina, went ahead last night as planned (video).…

Dave
January 1, 2019
2 Comments

Helping Wildlife During Hurricane Michael and Beyond

Climate Change, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescue

With Hurricane Michael hammering the Florida Panhandle and surrounding areas, we’re facing yet another harsh reminder of the fragility of life. We know you join Animal Help Now in our hopes that those in the hurricane’s path can make it…

Dave
October 10, 2018

High-Tech Wildlife 911

Emergency Services, Injured wildlife, Uncategorized

This article was originally published in New Mexico Vegan. Think fast. Your neighbor’s cat has injured a bird. You’ve managed to scare off the cat, and now it’s just you and the bird, who’s dazed and bleeding slightly. What do…

Dave
September 25, 2018

Watch your step!

Living with Wildlife

— I sicken a little to think of all the insects I kill when traveling in my car. So I’m extra careful when on foot. This little fellow – the size of a cherry pit – narrowly escaped death when…

Dave
September 7, 2018

When millions of years of evolution aren’t enough

Birds, Injured wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation

Yesterday on my way into Boulder on Highway 36 I noticed a person with a net looking through deep grass off the road’s shoulder. I figured she was looking for an animal of some sort, so I stopped to offer…

Dave
June 7, 2018
1 Comment

Facebook cheats, and animals pay the price

Community, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation

UPDATE (3/31/18) Until Google develops a better system of communicating to Android app users about the various ways that apps interact with a user’s list of contacts, Animal Help Now is pulling its “Add Helper to Contacts” functionality from its…

Dave
March 30, 2018
2 Comments

Watch your step! In 2018 more than ever.

Uncategorized

It’s a cold, sunny day, and you’re strolling alone on a sidewalk in an unfamiliar neighborhood in an unfamiliar town. Enjoying the new sights and sounds, you don’t notice the black ice patch until it’s too late. You hear your…

Dave
January 1, 2018

The Height of Injustice? Animals Saved From Death Summarily Killed

Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation

Animal Help Now’s December Animal Hero award goes to Jasmine Fletcher Glaze, director of A Soft Place To Land in Graham, Washington. Jasmine has been working with animals since the age of 14 and rehabilitated 300 – 350 mammals a…

Dave
November 30, 2017
4 Comments

Hurry July 5

Domestic Animals, Living with Wildlife, Wildlife

Among the several reasons to enjoy July 4 in the United States is the calm that comes about when this country takes a collective recess from work. Not a collective meditative calm, which is hard to even imagine, but at…

Dave
July 4, 2017