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Little Yodi Pup

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COMMENT 288080P	2012-06-14 09:19 PM
She looks great! Such a cutie... Keep up the good work!
SUSIECHAOS	2012-06-15 07:13 AM
Love those ears!
COMMENT 288127P	2012-06-15 08:00 AM
Beautiful creature. Appreciate your group's efforts.
FLICKA	2012-06-15 08:28 AM
Thank you for the good job!
COMMENT 288169	2012-06-15 09:38 AM
So much for natural selection. If this one is released back into the wild it will return to the city looking for food, and it will probably have company. Cute pup though. Will it be up for adoption?
COMMENT 288187P	2012-06-15 10:08 AM
I appreciate the work this group does but they should let the public know they do not come out for all wild animals in need. We called about a bird in our back yard, unable to fly but not completely without feathers. They said to leave it there and the parents would come down to feed it. Not much interest shown for the welfare of of the squawking little guy from them. Well the parents did come down once or twice but the baby ended up dying either from lack of food or cold. I can't help but think if we were calling about a hawk or an eagle they would have come right over, but a crow was not glamorous enough for their attention. I don't get excited about their stories the same as I used to unfortunately.
ANIMALLISTNER	2012-06-15 11:08 AM
Comment 288187P. Animal Rescue Team here: First off, our rescue hotline voicemail has specific instructions about birds, and to call Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. Both orgs. are run by volunteers. SBWCN is in Santa Barbara, ART, Inc in Santa Ynez. Responding to each and every wild bird plus all injured, orphaned and displaced wildlife would be virtually impossible. I promise you, that our org. DID NOT advise you, or anyone to leave the baby bird on the ground. There is nothing glamorous about the bloody, sad, intense, emotionally draining work we do. We are always open to a better solution. So please advise? You could have easily dropped the fallen bird off at SBWCN. Just saying!!!
COMMENT 288220	2012-06-15 11:49 AM
169: Coyotes will always be back to look for food in populated areas but not because they may be rescued, rehabbed, and released. Wherever there is urban interface with the wild there will be wildlife taking advantage of food sources in such close proximity to their habitat.
COMMENT 288237	2012-06-15 12:28 PM
Do you think a coyote would of extended the same courtesy to wounded puppy or kitten? Too bad a pack (that is how the coyote rolls is it not?) of dogs & cats didn't come by & "finish it off". I know you like to keep things positive but I have to listen to that canine garbage attack things all night & it makes me sick knowing it's probably someones beloved pet.
COMMENT 288261	2012-06-15 01:34 PM
I have no love for coyotes. Cute pups or not.
COMMENT 288273	2012-06-15 01:47 PM
I have to agree with some on here. Lots of time and money spent on something that should have been left to nature. Wish more people would spend time with all our humans in need in this town. I am a big brother and we could use all the help we can get.
COMMENT 288302	2012-06-15 02:45 PM
Nature never intended for humans to leave dozens of cats and dogs running a mock in an area initially inhabited by coyotes. They are just trying to get a meal, and I've heard of people doing some comparable things when times are tough. Just look at Wall Street. If your animal is eaten by one that naturally lives here, I'm sorry but you weren't watching it well enough. Nature also never intended for humans to drive cars, which hit coyotes, opossums, gophers, squirrels, cats, dogs, birds, raccoons, etc. Allowing a coyote to die from an unnatural wound is not leaving it up to nature.
COMMENT 288261	2012-06-15 02:48 PM
Man and his contraptions are part of nature.
COMMENT 288310P	2012-06-15 03:10 PM
The rescued Coyote pup was NOT sick and orphaned as as result of mother nature. Once again, this was the result of humans.
COMMENT 288336	2012-06-15 04:04 PM
288187P - Did you call ART in Santa Ynez or did you call the SBWCN in Goleta? I am guessing that it was the latter and that someone there advised you to leave it on the ground. This is something the volunteers there often do, 'though it's hard for most to know whether the chick can fly or not. That's sometimes good advice if it seems as though the bird could fly, but how can you tell? The best is to pick it up gently with towel, put it in a box to keep warm and safe --- and then to bring it to the SBWCN at the end of N. Fairview. You could also bring the bird to CARE on Garden and Haley and ask them to contact the SBWCN. Yes, there probably would have been more immediate response for a hawk or eagle (than for a crow) because the call would have gone/forwarded to EITS-trained and they would have responded. (Yes, wildlife care is specialized - and most volunteers would not be prepared to handle a hawk or an eagle --- or a coyote.) I understand your unhappiness with their attitude of doing nothing, but they are mostly volunteer (as is the ART) --- and as for not caring for crows, not true: they have a large aviary filled with crows being rehabilitated. Please do give the SBWCN another chance --- and please do notify them of your unhappiness with what happened and how the bird died. Even better, when you call 681-1080 how about offering to volunteer if you have some time: this is the very busy season and they can use caring people, as you sound to be.
COMMENT 288302	2012-06-15 08:12 PM
Man an his contraptions could be construed as a part of nature. The part of nature that tips the balance past the point of recovery. The part of nature that allows man not to be a part of nature.
ANIMALLISTNER	2012-06-16 12:24 AM
Dear FLYLIGHT, Amen, and thank you! We are ALL doing the best we can.... Bless you!
COMMENT 288187P	2012-06-16 08:18 AM
Flylight-I stand corrected. The number you listed is in fact the one we called. We asked if there was somewhere we could take the baby and explained there was no way it could fly because although it did have a good amount of feathers it was still mostly down underneath. We could clearly see that as he or she hopped and flapped its wings. We were not given the option to take it to another place or another number to call. At the time I thought we were talking to professionals and she must know what's best for the little one. Thank you for clarifying the difference in the organizations. Animallisntner-I see it Was a different organization. Too bad they did not give us the option of calling you or driving the bird to you. We did offer to take it somewhere safe. I know they can't all be saved. This just seemed like such a waste. When we called the baby was unhurt and seemed to have plenty of energy. So sad that it just couldn't make it through a cold night on the ground by itself.
COMMENT 288534	2012-06-16 10:54 AM
288187P: Thank you for your clarification. As for the SBWCN, the volunteers all do have training, but this is the very busy season. Not an excuse, really, but a possible explanation. I would recommend that you call Julia Parker, the Director of Animal Affairs; try the office number listed 681-1019, listed on the web site. I've heard that the 681-1080 number sometimes gets nothing but a message to leave a message, without a rapid or timely response. They all do care and would not be volunteering (or be staff) if they did not. However, there's a bit of a difference of opinion on what to do with a little bird on the ground, leave it or take it in? Where there's any doubt they should give the caller options; sorry they didn't do that and I am shocked that if you offered to drive the little bird somewhere safe, they did not give you options. CARE, open 24/7, in Santa Barbara is very helpful; ART, certainly, also. Please do report back on how they at SBWCN respond. And as a fellow bird/wildlife lover, I thank you for caring.
ANIMALLISTNER	2012-06-16 01:03 PM
Dear 288187P: Whew, thank you for following up. Our work is emotional enough. Again, we feel the bird needed to be assesed. Everyone has their own opinion. Each rescue is situational. Just yesterday a Great Horned Owl was left in a large plastic garbage bag in the heat for many hours, until SBWCN could find a volunteer to pick the injured owl up from Lake Cachuma. Sadly ART, Inc. was NEVER called or asked to help. We are much closer, and would have gone in a heart beat. We are following up with the Park Rangers, who are aware of our rescue work, as well as our facility location. We are always offering to help stablize any birds that arrive, that are to end up at SBWCN. Please do keep our rescue # handy, 805 896-1859

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