to 2:00 p.m., at the Center, located at the entrance to the Rio Grande Nature Center, at 2901 Candelaria Road, NW, in Albuquerque. The Open House is on April 26, from 10 a.m. Helping more than two thousand injured or orphaned animals each year requires many well-trained volunteers who love animals. In addition, it provides training for people who would like to volunteer to work at the center. Wildlife Rescue, whose mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release our wild cousins, enters its busiest season with an annual open house, the only time of the year that it is allowed to give the public a tour of its facilities. Some of them are going to need rescuing and Wildlife Rescue of New Mexico will be the rescuer. It’s spring and all kinds of wild critters are being born-roadrunners, songbirds, squirrels, and more. Kent Winchester Wildlife Rescue NM annual volunteer training and open house Orphaned roadrunner chicks-bottle-fed by volunteers from Wildlife Rescue of New Mexico “Winter dove, 2014” -Michael and Jeremie Sare, La Mesa, Placitas
“Who’s a pretty boy, Peter?” -Lois Nethery Lalo loves to receive your pet and animal photos to print in the Signpost.Įmail them to “Lalo” mail prints to: Signpost, P. Two dogs: A blonde dog and a black dog seen running loose on Camino de la Buena Vista (a little west of the Village of Placitas and north of Highway 165) on March 23. He is an indoor cat (who got out), and he is very new to the area, so please keep your eyes out for him and help him find his way home. “Leo” is a male, yellow/orange tabby cat with white chest, nose, and feet. “If you see me, call Dave.” Reward offered.Ĭat: Orange-and-white tabby lost from Ranchos de Placitas, just north of highway 165, at Juniper Road. She was lost from Yucca Lane, not far from Placitas Homesteads. “Sonya” is a blonde/yellow, 14-year-old, who can’t see well. Call Dave and January at 867-6135 or 263-2266 and leave a detailed message, or email the Animal Hotline at: (but call, too).ĭog: Chow/lab cross, older female lost from Ranchos de Placitas, on March 3.
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Placing a Lost or Found in the Animal Hotline is a free service courtesy of the Signpost-we can sometimes even include a photo. The Hotline is a nonprofit service run by Dave and January Harper to help reunite lost and found pets. If you lose or find an animal in Placitas area, call the Animal Hotline at 867-6135. Says Mikal Deese, Corrales’ new bird lady: “She’s forgotten more than I’ll ever know.An independent monthly newspaper serving the community since 1988 Nature is marvelous, she says, regaining in an instant all the clarity that her memory has robbed her of in recent years. Though she is phasing out of rescue work, and training others to take her place, Kendall still lights up with enthusiasm whenever the topic turns to crane migration or the anatomy of a turkey vulture. Kendall’s home in the bosque serves as a kind of wild bird hospital, with a half dozen large flight cages built by her husband, Jack, a mouse-breeding shed, and a veterinary office off the kitchen that speaks to a lifetime of looking after creatures that never wag in appreciation or fetch her slippers. On a cold winter morning, we came across her tending to a great horned owl with a splinted wing-probably hit by a car, she thinks, while feeding on road kill. in Albuquerque, and at university, but hers is the kind of knowledge developed over years of tending birds on her own, day after day, and living with the consequences.
She got some training at Wildlife Rescue Inc.
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When she started, in the 1970 and ’80s, almost nothing was known about how to care for wild animals. Corrales resident Shirley Kendall was a pioneer in wildlife rescue, and for years she’s been among the few individuals in the Rio Grande Valley with a permit to rehabilitate injured wildlife-and still the only one specializing in raptors. She has long been known for her incredible skill in nursing scores of injured wild birds back to health.
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