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(gravel rustling)

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>>I found him on the floor.

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At first I thought it was a 
little mole or a dead mouse

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and then all of a sudden 
he was just (groans).

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I was sprawled out and I was 
like, well, you're a bat!

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I know who to call.

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>>What should you do if you find

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a very young orphaned raccoon, 
skunk, or bird in the wild?

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To find out and to learn 
about an organization

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that works very hard to 
ensure that these animals

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make their way back into 
their natural habitat,

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join us as we visit 
Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary.

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Come on!

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(bird chirping)

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>>I've always been 
very fond of wildlife

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and non-human animals.

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I'm a landscaper by 
trade and one time,

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some lady gave me a 
crow but he couldn't fly

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so I took him home and 
then about a year later,

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a friend of mine said,

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"It's illegal for 
you to have this crow

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"but you can become a rehabber 
if you apply with the state."

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and blah, blah, blah, blah.

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So I did that and 
it's been a total joy.

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It's fulfilling, it's fun,

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it's wonderful for 
nature for us to do this.

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It's just all around good.

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>>Okay, so let's talk 
about the mission

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of the organization.

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Jessie, fill us in on that.

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>>Sure!

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So we have a couple of different 
main points to our mission.

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The first one is to take care

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of the injured and 
orphaned wildlife

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that comes into our care so 
that we can rehabilitate them

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and then release them back 
into the wild eventually.

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And then another one is 
advising citizens on what to do

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if they find an injured 
or orphaned wild animal.

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So to do that, we have to 
know the natural history

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of the animal species 
that they're dealing with,

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be able to tell them what 
is normal in the wild,

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and what is abnormal 
and give them advice

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on when to take 
action or inaction.

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And then the third 
is to reach out

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to schools and different 
educational events

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and talk a little bit 
about our native wildlife

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and their needs and what we 
can do to live with them.

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>>Give us an example 
of who comes to you.

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>>I guess the best way to say

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is we do all of 
the native animals

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except for fawns and bears.

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Everything else, opossums, 
and raccoons and bunnies and--

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>>Skunks. 
>>Skunks and--

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>>Foxes. 
>>Foxes, yeah.

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We do mostly all of the water 
birds in Central Virginia

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and we do all the songbirds.

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>>And someone 
called earlier today

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and they had a bat.

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>>So when somebody calls us,

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the first thing we do is we 
ask them what the situation is,

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what the animal was 
doing, what it looks like,

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another thing that's coming-- 
>>How old it is.

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>>How old it is.

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Another thing that's come 
in handy is smart phones

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because now people 
can take pictures

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and send them to us so we 
can get a better idea on age

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and if it's acting funny 
and kind of go from there.

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>>And the goal is for them 
to be back in the wild.

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That's the goal.

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And if they bond with humans.

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>>It's very difficult for them

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to become a wild animal again

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so we go out of our way to 
make sure when we bring them up

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that there's always 
two animals together

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so they bond on each 
other rather than on us.

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>>Give us an example 
of a typical day,

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who's fed and how they're fed 
and how often they're fed.

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So a typical day for us is 
seven o'clock in the morning

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until seven o'clock 
in the evening.

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So we're going all day long.

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So the first thing I'll do

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is start with feeding 
the baby birds

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because they have to be 
fed every 20 to 30 minutes.

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>>Oh my goodness! 
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So we have a little timer 
that we carry around with us

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and when it goes off, 
we stop what we're doing

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and we go feed the baby birds.

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to the baby mammals.

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So I would tube feed 
the baby possums next.

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>>And why are they tube-fed?

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>>Just to make sure 
they're getting

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the proper amount of 
formula each feeding

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so we can ensure that 
they grow up healthy.

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>>Right, if you tried to 
do it with a bottle feeder,

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you wouldn't know.

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It would fall all 
over their face

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and you wouldn't have any idea

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how much actually 
they took in, correct?

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>>Right, exactly. 
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And they also do not know

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how to go to the 
bathroom on their own.

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So what do you call that?

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>>We call it stimulating 
and we have to do that

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for all the baby mammals when 
they come in after they eat,

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before and after usually, 
we'll stimulate them.

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>>You call it poop and 
pee them, I heard you.

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>>Pee, pee them. 
>>Pop and pee them.

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>>We pee and poop 'em. 
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(everyone laughing)

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>>Stimulating is 
the official term.

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>>But it's interesting 
because that's something

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that most people don't know

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that their mother would 
normally help them with that.

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And how often do the little 
baby possums need to be fed?

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>>Well, the ones that 
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are four times a day now.

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They've just moved on 
from five times a day.

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So what we do is 
we spread that out

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so that their last 
feeding is at seven

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because we don't 
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to go longer than 12 hours 
overnight without being fed.

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>>If we get teeny weeny beanies,

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then somebody takes 
the incubator home

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so they can feed 'em at night.

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>>And that is the 
other point too

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is that when people find 
these orphaned animals,

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these little animals,

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it is so important 
that they stay warm.

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It has to be 100 degrees 
or something, right?

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but the tiny guys can't 
generate their own heat

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so they literally will be cold.

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and he's cold to the touch,

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then you need to heat 
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and we use heating pads for that

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or incubators or 
whatever you have.

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>>You have a nest of baby 
skunks that just came through

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and they're doing 
really well now

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but they had been so 
cold that it took--

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>>We lost two of them. 
>>Wow.

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>>Yeah.

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>>And how do you care 
for a baby skunk?

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>>So baby skunks, we start 
out by hand feeding them

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with a nipple and a syringe 
but once they open their eyes,

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they're very unwilling to accept

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the formula by hand 
anymore and so--

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>>They can eat on their own.

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>>They start eating 
on their own.

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We put in what we 
call a mush bowl

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and so that's 
their formula mixed

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with a couple other 
little soft foods

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to get them started 
on eating solids.

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>>Sweet potatoes.

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Everybody here eats 
sweet potatoes.

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>>Sweet potatoes! (laughs) 
>>It's all over her clothes.

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>>It's Southern! 
(both laughing)

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>>And boiled eggs.

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>>Boiled eggs, also 
another favorite

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and banana is a 
big favorite too.

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So we have a few little tricks 
that we get them started

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with eating the solid stuff

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and then we'll go on to the 
dog foods or the vegetables,

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things that they 
may not be willing

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to start out eating initially.

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>>And it's a transition so 
you have a new facility,

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the animals are no longer 
in your car or in your home,

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but then they 
transition outside.

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>>Yeah, so we start 
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in one of the nurseries.

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And that way, we can hand-feed 
them or bottle-feed them.

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The baby birds, as 
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have to be fed every 
20 to 30 minutes

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so we can easily do that inside.

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And then once they, 
what's called fledge,

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where in the wild they would 
willingly jump out of the nest

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and start learning 
to hop around and fly

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and find food on their own, 
but mom still is feeding them,

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we simulate that by putting 'em

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in our fledge cage or a aviary.

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And so same with mammals too.

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The raccoons, once 
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and started eating a little 
bit of their mush bowl,

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we can put them into a 
smaller outdoor enclosure

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so they can learn 
to start climbing.

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And then once they've 
gotten good at that

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and they're totally 
off hand-feeding,

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then we can put them into

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the regular large 
outdoor enclosure

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where they can continue 
to grow and develop

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and get stronger until 
they're released.

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>>And they're released 
at what, four months?

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>>Four or five.

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>>And them possums, you 
measure their length, right?

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To decide when they are-- 
>>Yeah, it's eight inches.

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>>Eight to 10 in the springtime

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because there's 
lots of food around.

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But possums come in all year.

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They don't have a season 
like squirrels do,

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so the ones that we get in 
in the fall, to release them,

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we wanna make sure they're 
a little more prepared

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because there's less food around

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so we wanna make 
their body length,

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not including the tail, 
12 inches at least.

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>>Right.

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And the facility was built 
way back in the woods

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so that they could be 
released right here.

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They're not worried about dogs, 
you're not worried about--

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>>Well, some of 
them we do release.

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We have a couple of estates 
where we're allowed to release

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'cause you can get 
overloaded with animals.

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And we don't wanna 
release the foxes,

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which is a predator 
with little bunnies,

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so they would go over 
in one of the estates.

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So I have a story about these 
woodpeckers that we have here.

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It was a VDOT guy who they 
were cleaning the lines,

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the power lines, and 
they cut a branch

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and the branch fell 
down and a woodpecker,

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a baby piliated, 
rolled on the ground.

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And so they gathered 
up the babies

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and the guy was sweet enough

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to put all the 
babies in his hoodie

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and keep the truck 
going for two hours.

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>>Oh, he knew. 
>>Yeah, pretty cool.

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Sweet guy.

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>>And all of your 
animals, again,

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that's the goal is for them

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to be released 
back into the wild.

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>>Yes, successfully. 
>>But you have a handful

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of educational animals 
here, they're handicapped,

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they wouldn't survive, so tell 
us a little bit about those.

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>>So, we have a few.

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We have Jack, the red-tailed 
hawk who is missing an eye.

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And because hawks rely on 
their vision for hunting,

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he can't be released 
into the wild.

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We have a barred owl who's 
severely handicapped visually.

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And then we have Esperanza the 
possum who is missing a tail

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so we can't release her.

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And the rule of 
thumb with possums

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is that they have 50% 
or more of their tail,

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we can still release 
them but anything less,

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and they probably wouldn't be 
able to survive on their own.

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And then we have an 
education corn snake

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who was raised by somebody

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who tried to sell her on 
Craigslist, which is illegal,

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but we offered to 
give her a home

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and use her as an 
education animal.

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And so he said he would do that.

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So we have her and then 
we have a box turtle

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who has some mobility 
issues with her hind legs.

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And that's

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all the guys we have. 
>>That's it.

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>>You have to follow 
specific rules and laws.

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Talk a little bit about that.

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>>Right, well the-- 
>>With the gaming.

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>>Virginia Department of 
Game and Inland Fishery.

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They're the ones who 
give us our permits.

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And then the Feds give us 
our permits to do birds.

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And the Department of 
Agriculture comes here too.

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So we actually have 
three departments

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that we're under 
and supervised by

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to make sure that we do 
everything correctly.

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>>Right.

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>>And it takes two years

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to earn a rehabilitation 
permit because--

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>>And if people wanna help,

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because I'm sure 
people love animals.

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If they wanna help, 
what can they do?

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>>Well, we are a 
501c3 non-profit

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so that means we 
don't get any money

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from the state or federal,

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so we run solely 
off of donations.

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We do some grant work so.

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Donations are first and 
foremost the best way to help.

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And then there's also things

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like donating Food 
Lion gift cards

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because we have to 
feed these animals

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lots of fresh fruits 
and vegetables

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so we're constantly 
going to the store.

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And then there's 
things like puppy pads

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that we use a lot of, Kleenex.

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>>Paper products. 
>>Yeah, paper towels.

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>>And volunteering and helping.

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>>Volunteering would 
be wonderful, yes.

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>>So tell us the difference 
between the sanctuary here

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and The Wildlife 
Center of Virginia.

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>>The Wildlife Center of 
Virginia is a hospital.

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It's a wildlife hospital.

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When we have an injured 
baby, we send 'em over there.

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When they have healthy orphans, 
they send them over here.

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So it's a totally 
symbiotic relationship

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and I'm just grateful that 
they are so close to us.

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>>We're very lucky

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because they're only about 
40 minutes aways from us

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and most states don't even have

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a wildlife veterinary 
specialist,

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so we've got 'em right 
over the mountain.

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>>One of the goals for 
you all is for people

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to understand the connection 
between wildlife and ourselves.

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>>Well, I think it's 
good to remember

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that we're part of 
a huge community

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and that community is not 
just human being communities.

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It's all the plants and 
it's all the wildlife

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and it makes us richer if we 
keep that community intact.

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>>There are things 
that we can do

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to help prevent animals 
from dying, correct?

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>>And one of the most 
important things you can do

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is plant native species 
of plants in your garden.

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If you don't have any native 
plants in your garden,

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the birds can't 
feed their babies.

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It's just that simple.

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>>Yeah.

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Well, thank you all so much for 
spending time with us today.

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>>Thank you. 
>>Thank you!

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It's been wonderful.

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(bird chirping)

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(jazz music)