Meet a very special bird - our 27,000th patient in our Raptor Hospital!
Patient #27000 is a baby Barred Owl that lost its nest during a wind storm. This baby is currently rooming with another young Barred Owl in our care, and we are hoping that we can renest both soon!
I’ve visited CRC and it’s a great place!
If you’re wondering why they are sporting some colored hairdos, that is a dye marker so the care team knows who’s who.
If there’s more than one animal kept together, this makes identifying them easy so their specific feeding and care instructions can be followed.
"Put me down!”
We had a baby racoon yesterday wailing like a human baby, and they were just trying to put it on the scale but you’d swear we were torturing it! 😄
Fetch . . the soft cushions!!
*musical sting*
Confess. Confess! CONFESS! 😠
Yep. I’ve had rescues that fought like I was trying to kill them when trying to free/care for them.
It reminds me of when I was bitten by a pit mix, who was wrapped in his chain, stuck under a fence, against a tree. His owners were underserved, to say the least, and neighborhood kids would throw things at him and poke him with sticks for amusement while the family was working, so of course the poor thing was defensive. I finally got him free, gave him fresh water and food. I felt honored when I’d worked with him enough that he would leap and wag to greet me, over the months. I was very sad when we had to part, but happy we’d become trusted friends.
I went to see friends once and they had adopted an abused rescue. I dont know what it was, but it was a pretty large mixed breed dog. It was fairly skittish around me, but they said he went nuts for ice cubes. They gave me a big handful to toss to him. He excitedly ate about 10 cubes, and upon holding my hand open to show that was it, it immediately tore into my hand.
Oh boy, did that hurt! I got a nasty hole in my finger, but I couldn’t get mad. He musta been through some stuff to make him that way because he was nice around everyone else there that he had gotten time to get used to. Needless to say, I gave up on making close friends with him at that point. Even I don’t need to be told twice like that! 😅
I don’t blame you! I’m hard-headed though, and I did get mad when he bit me, when I was just trying to free him from choking on his chain and giving him fresh water! But I got over it and resolved to become friends. It took several months, but it worked out. It was more about me though. I knew if I didn’t approach him again, I’d be a prisoner of my own fear, and resenting the poor dog, for it. He did what he did, and I was too stubborn and proud to admit defeat.
The day before we parted, it was like he knew. He came to me as I sat on my porch and laid his head in my lap, staring into my eyes. Perhaps I projected my own sorrow into those eyes, because he sure looked sad to me. After a few moments, I kissed his nose, he nuzzled my cheek, and that was the last I saw him. I moved. I do so hope he is happy and well.
I’m glad you both got to understand each other! They never understand our intentions, especially if they’ve only ever known bad people. But just like people, with some compassion and time, we can be friends with almost anyone.
Yes sir. “Almost” being key. Sometimes you just have to respect boundaries, your own and others.
Reminds me of this lol
stolen from frostpunk subredditThat is one cool cat! 😮
I’d love to have him as a pet! Until he turns my house into a totalitarian dictatorship… (i’m forced to pet him, 24/7 😔)
I’ve talked to one Screech Owl caretaker and she said in her 5+ years she’s never even seen it eat, and the resident Screeches we have at the clinic, they say they snatch the food sometimes before they’re even out of the pen, so there’s a wide variety of animal behavior, but everything is always going to be on their terms, no matter what it is! 😅
That’s really excellent work, but I read the title as ‘Carolina Reaper Center Reaches Patient #27,000!’ and got quite worried.
Isn’t that the plot of Pixar’s Soul? 🤔
Does that moocher even have health insurance?
I dunno, but it gets more comprehensive coverage than I do! 😒😁
Daww it’s a baby yutyrannus.
Looking up dinos these days gives such wide variety of takes on what they looked like! Some images had various amounts of feathers and others had pretty wild colors. So different from when they were all just green or brown and scaley when I was little.
Hey Kids! https://carolinaraptorcenter.org/ “Breakfast with the Birds” sounds pretty cool!
Or, y’know, you can thank them for 27,000 patients with some cash - clams, or bones, or whatever you call them.
Those poor birds can’t eat a thing off that table! 🤨
Looks like they have some free admission Mothers/Fathers Day events too.
Too bad their store isn’t online, they have a cool logo for merch.
I stopped by on my way to Gatlinburg and it was well worth it.
