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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

They showed me their wounds! The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. The carrier was a normal cardboard box, but the opossum was nestled on a square of white fur, surrounded by pinecones and greenery, and all of it was festively tied with a ribbon.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

When I rescued a mother opossum and her babies from a trashcan full of filthy water, she bit my finger,” said Bettina Bowers. And it wasn’t even the opossum, it was the nasty water.”. “My asked Johanna Walton. “My My ophthalmologist said it was one of his ‘top three professional lifetime bizarre stories.’