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For owls that are superb.
US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
International Wildlife Rescues: RescueShelter.com
Australia Rescue Help: WIRES
Germany-Austria-Switzerland-Italy Wild Bird Rescue: wildvogelhilfe.org
If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.
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It is brutal in a way, but it is efficient and wastes nothing, so who are we to criticize? 🤔
It was oddly amusing seeing the Cooper's Hawk the other day "murder" its meal I brought it. Having the snacks be not alive to begin with makes it exponentially easier to swallow, both for them and myself. They're just even smaller Cornish hens at that point.
I just can't imagine how/if cats pass bones! I need to look it up. The old timers used to make puddings and included things currently thrown away, eyes, bladders, etc. A neighbor told me he won't eat store bought pudding because he watched it being made at home. Oddly, they rest hotdogs.
Do you all warm up your feathered friends meals?
I wouldn't have though cats eating bones would have been a hard thing to look up, but after a few different queries, all I get is from stuff about people trying to give a raw diet to housecats. As they're 100% carnivores, I'm sure they're designed to handle whatever they would eat purposefully, but it would be nice to have more details.
That reminds me, I heard someone "donated" a case of vegan dog food the other day, whatever that is. I didn't get a chance to check it out.
I love hotdogs, despite their reputation. After having about a quarter million as a kid, it's just too late to worry about their contents at this point! 😄
The animals that aren't on formula all eat ambient temp food as far as I've seen thus far. I'm just happy if someone actually bothered to thaw out prey items for me, I usually have to thaw them myself and it takes forever soaking them in water and flipping and separating them and all that to try to speed it up. Some animals have the precise weight of the food recorded, and since they swallow it whole, I have to make sure it's flexible, so I've got to thaw the whole bag to make sure I can get something appropriate for the specific animals.
In the wild, they'll eat cached or found found, so most don't require it to be so particular. We do accommodate if they're picky eaters though, like with the pregnant opossum that wouldn't eat the raw eggs, only scrambled.
Tbf, I don't want them raw either, especially nowadays.
I found something but the always playing kitten cleared all my browsing history. Anyway, the page said the bones are small enough to crush and gives needed calcium and strengthens teeth. The biggest issue is roundworm and toxoplasmosis.
Kitty didnt want you paying attention to other cats? 😁
That was much the extent I saw too, it was mainly from blogs or vendors though, so I had been hoping for something with some more credentials. Lots said chicken neck bones were good for size, digestibility, and as a source of collagen.
She doesn't want me paying attention to anything. I was speaking with my progeny recently about how if she's not eating or sleeping, she's in my lap, or on my chest, and how a rescue center for wilds requires feeders to wear masks of the animals they handle. Imprinting is real.
The bunny babies don't get handled any more than necessary for how delicate they are. The lady that handles them dropped 3 off in a nice field the other week, and she was saying she stopped back and did a "hey bunny bunny!" and one came hopping out to see her. I think they were calling it a Snow White Moment, when you call and the wild animals you took care of recognize you and come check you out. 😇