Hurricane Katrina-RESCUED INJURED WILDLIFE

The following also comes from the Best Friends website:

"Meanwhile, since last Thursday, September 1, Becki Bolm has released eleven of her birds and has taken in a flood of hurricane victims: three Eastern blue jays, some Merganser ducks, Madagascar ducks, five squirrel babies, a red-tailed hawk, and a barred owl. The NWRA will be sending Becki a giant “care package” of food and rehabilitation supplies for birds and mammals to help with all these extra patients.

Becki is also giving instructions on emergency care by phone to a couple dozen volunteers scattered across several counties who are raising squirrel babies. Gas is still scarce, and it’s difficult to bring the babies to her center.

One of these new squirrel caregivers is an eighty-two year old lady living between Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana, who is feeding the baby squirrels a makeshift diet that is the best she can do in the circumstances. She insisted that she didn’t need any help herself and says that both the squirrels and she are doing just fine!

Becki explains that the newly arrived ducks and blue jays were brought out of New Orleans by a couple, Edie and her husband, as they evacuated the city. They’ve lost their house and their jobs, but discovered unexpected kindness on the part of a gentleman in Jackson, who not only invited them to be guests in his home, but who drove them both, along with the three blue jays and the little group of ducks, all in need of care, out to Becki’s wildlife center. "

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SeEtta