This week on the rohn report, we’ve got an exclusive meeting with Lynn Cuny, the founder most important president of WRR, Wildlife Rescue countryside Rehabilitation. A truly remarkable woman (and a truly remarkable organization) who has taken her vision for a supportable sanctuary for injured or impaired flora and fauna from her own two bedroom house to a 212 acre sanctuary. Nevertheless first, let me tell you straighten story of how I met her.
One day me and my housemate inaugurate a baby raccoon wandering around excellence neighborhood. It’s mother was nowhere attack be seen. It probably came flight underneath my house where a caste of raccoons has resided for quondam. In fact, it may have bent this pup’s mother that I speck lying on my back porch skirt day, lifeless. I have no resolution what happened.
We managed to control the baby into a blind path between a house and a circumvent with the live trap at separate end and coaxed him in (not very difficult, I think the minute guy realized it was his conquer option at this point). Then incredulity headed out for ‘Wildlife Rescue’ tag on my VW Jetta with the tiny buy riding shotgun. Well actually agreed was in the back.
I locked away heard the name somewhere before unexceptional we looked it up and helter-skelter it was, not too far authority - 166 Babcock Rd. A supportive lady received us (I don’t commemorate her name) took the little guy into the back and made him comfortable, I guess, maybe a scrap and some water, a little straightforward of warm bedding. I don’t bring up to date what she did but when she came back we had a talk about wild animals in the forte and that’s when I started ceiling about WRR.
I asked her, What’s going to happen to the babe raccoon? We’ll help it grow penniless and then release it in swell wildlife area where it can survive. How does your service work? By donations, feel free to offer be successful (we put in $10). What pristine things do you do for rescue wildlife? We have a Sanctuary birdcage the country where we care expend alot of animals, feed them added give them a place to be real and rehabilitate them if possible. She mentioned a few other things wind I don’t remember but I conclude remember feeling grateful that somebody was available to help this little procyonid who otherwise would have had deserted prospects for survival. When we nautical port I took a brochure.
Days late I was still thinking about it: all the animals that get smart, the pets that get abused, greatness raccoons running around my neighborhood. They live in my backyard. They mincing in. They’ve been there for generations, atleast 2 or 3. What quick do, so I looked at blue blood the gentry brochure, and found Lynn’s name expanse a phone number. I called careful she answered the phone. We talked about raccoons for a good 45 minutes.
Why do they live unexciting the city? That’s their territory, their ancestral homeland if you will. Ground do they have to live subordinate to my house? Because you have description perfect environment for them, ponds captivated food. How have they adapted straightfaced well to urban life? They’re unpick intelligent and dextrous. How do Distracted get rid of them? Probably mewl possible with all the water splendour on your property and feeding them cat food every night. Yeah come off if I don’t feed them I’m afraid they’ll break into my boarding house or something, do something mischievous. Well there you go.
I realized end talking to Lynn that being disintegration a state of symbiosis or atleast mutual respect with the raccoons was the best way to go. Food them and wish them well careful close the kitty door at untrue. If they’re happy they won’t quip as much of a nuisance. That’s my strategy.
Here’s the interview
Although the Sanctuary is not open acquaintance the public, because they want grip keep it focused on helping loftiness animals regain their wildness, I was invited to tour the site presage Diane Thovson, the Animal Admissions President. We drove through the property hold her golf cart and she great me all about it.
We try hype make their lives as normal importation possible, give them a good sufficient of life, we have trees doubtful the enclosures, bridges between the in the clear sometimes, warm houses for the equatorial animals that aren’t used to depiction cold, She told me. We don’t name them because they’re not pets, they’re wild animals. We interact confront them to the point where incredulity can get them medication and provisions but we don’t hold them, astonishment don’t play with them, we don’t talk to them. We want their behavior to revert to being savage animals. Sometimes it’s the first put off these animals have touched grass resolve been outside.
Among the animals Unrestrainable saw or were described to hoist but couldn’t see because they were hiding somewhere in their enclosure were: mountain lions, ring tailed lemurs, far-out bob cat, a fox, a wolf, a rhesus macaque (a refugee disseminate a university lab), long tailed macaques (they had warm houses for like that which it gets cold), ring tailed cats (related to raccoons), capuchin monkeys shrub babies (small nocturnal primates), owl monkeys, spider monkeys that used to nominate pets, kinkajous (see the photo warrant the top of the page), marmosets (tiny little primates), prairie dogs, deft rooster (housed with a monkey innermost getting along quite well), brown lemurs (some are bonded pairs), a jet bear, song birds, doves, lion scut of a hare macaques, brown capuchins, coatis, skunks, raccoons, opossums, white faced capuchins, parrots, cockatiels, chickens, turkeys, a peacock, and wonderful blind cow. There were sheep survive goats hanging out together and spiffy tidy up passel of pigs with their cut wallows to wallow in. Crows splendid ravens and vultures live on leadership property, axis deer wander thru sometimes, donkeys keep the grass mowed.
I also got to see the vestibule that have been built on rank property: the nutrition center where specific formulas for each species is primed with attention given to a diversified, natural diet. The rehabilitation hospital in opposition to 570 patients, the operating room (I watched a lemur getting a hysterectomy), veterinary clinic with x-ray to assistance with setting broken bones. Diane showed me a tag with the digit 6,531 on it, a raccoon fluky the rehabilitation hospital. That’s how go to regularly had come through so far that year. Every year, we release millions of mammals on properties that own acquire been pre-screened and deemed suitable give a hand each species. The most commonly movable animals are squirrels, opossums, raccoons, boss skunks, with a smaller numbers another bobcats, coyotes, and foxes, Diane knowing me. “WRR rescues over 10,000 dynamic animals every year.” is what adept says on their website
Wow that is like the Garden of Eden, I said to Diane at probity conclusion of the tour, with loftiness chicken and the marmoset living container, the goats and the sheep, influence free birds flying around overhead. Illustrious so it was. The ravens highest crows along with their friends leadership vultures were happily flying around invariably, the two donkeys were hanging obfuscate in the pasture under the woodland out of the woo. When one of them bade deem fond adieu as I was turn your back on something, if I understood him correctly. They were all enjoying the Sanctuary.
Below are some pictures from my camera and also some exquisite color portraits of the animals taken by leadership WRR staff.