+1 for awareness
“It seems impossible at first, and then only improbable, and then it’s happening”
I always think how long it took me to know where my local wildlife rescue was. I knew a bunch of vets for pets if I ever found one hurt, but nothing for wild animals. I’d want to help them just as much. I think more of us should learn who our local people are.
right you are - maybe a state-by-state spotlight or something sometime.
I did a 50 State of Owls early on, and that was the start of my owl mega-feed. Some states seemed very limited though. It was kind of sad seeing some large but low population states having hardly any resources I could find. So many animals are probably unable to be served.
We did add some databases in the sidebar to try to help, but as many are small 1 or 2 person operations and come and go all the time due to there being no funding, so it’s a tough job to maintain any up to date list, but it’s the best I could find. A quick google of “my_city wild animal rescue” is probably your best bet.
Maye be “Sponsor a State Wildlife Rescue” day or recurring theme where someone picks a state and shows what’s there rescue wise (or maybe even preservation wise or protected land wise?).
You could post it like a quesiton and see if anyone has any info. There’s often at least some gap between rescue projects and the web. Maybe people know of one somehow and want to highlight it. I dunno. Just a thought :)
I’ve pointed out a few places to people, but most (understandably) don’t want to give out their locations.
I’m sure I’ve already doxxed myself many times over on here repping my local animal places, and talking about school district drama during all the Mothers for Liberty school takeovers we had. Not the best job for someone with an “anon” name, but this was supposed to just last a couple days while I lurked and didn’t post. Whoops.
I’d like yoooooou guys to do some of the sharing your local animal helpers, but again, I know that runs into the same issues. You could pick a place where you have distant relatives or like to vacation at or something thoooooough… 😜
You could pick a place where you have distant relatives or like to vacation at or something thoooooough… 😜
Exactly. That’s why I’m thinking “Sponsor a State”. If you have personal knowledge of a rescue - any rescue - call it out. Maybe you went there, maybe you drove by, maybe you know a guy who knows a guy - whatever.
Ah, now I gotcha. wink wink
