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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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>>Right, yeah.

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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!
>>And that's all day long.

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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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And then I work on
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.
>>That's right.

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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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(both laughing)

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>>We pee and poop 'em.
>>Yeah.

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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
we just fed today

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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
want any animals

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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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>>Yeah, they can't generate,
depending on their age,

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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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So if you find a baby
and you pick him up

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and he's cold to the touch,

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then you need to heat
him up immediately

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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
all our babies inside

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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
I mentioned before,

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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
they've graduated

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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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