Wildlife Rehab Center

Yesterday was a pretty exciting field trip for my ecology class. We went to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which is where I am hoping to intern at later this summer. We went on a tour of the facility and got to observe some of the current animals being cared for. There were a few mallards, a couple Canadian geese, some trumpeter swans, several brown bats, a few painter turtles, a snapping turtle, and some mangy squirrels. It felt so good knowing that there are people out there who want the wild animals to be cared for and fixed, rather than leaving them in the wild to die. Every year, hundreds of turtles get their shells cracked, but people just don't care because "it's just a turtle." All animals are apart of this world. And more people need to start realized that we came in and ruined THEIR home, not the other way around.