Rescueing Wildlife: A Guide to Helping Injured & Orphaned Animals - Paperback

by Peggy Sue Hentz (Author)

Second Edition. Your POCKET REFERENCE GUIDE to injured or orphaned wild animals When rescuing injured wildlife, the choices you make will impact that animal's life and possibly your own. Knowing about the risks to the animal as well as to you, your family and your pets, along with the right advice from the beginning can mean the difference between a heartwarming, educational experience and disaster. - How to determine the status of an injured creature using easy-to-follow flow charts - Instructions on safe-capture methods, emergency care, transportation, and finding a professional wildlife rehabilitator This informative guide teaches would-be rescuers how to identify an animal in need, capture that animal, and safely transport it to a wildlife rehabilitator.

Author Biography

Peggy grew up in Orwigsburg, a small Pennsylvania town nestled in the picturesque Appalachia Mountains. As far back as she can remember, animals were her passion, which led Peggy to pursue her dream of building a wildlife rehabilitation center. Red Creek Wildlife Center was founded in 1991 and today rehabilitates thousands of animals each year. Peggy is a frequent speaker at local schools and scouting groups, sharing her love for wildlife with children and adults. She also conducts classeson wildlife rehabilitation. Select presentations include The New Jersey Association of Wildlife Rehabilitators conference at Princeton University, an all-day seminar for the Maryland Wildlife Rehabilitators Association at the Patuxent National Wildlife Center, a seminar on handling public "wildlife in distress calls" for the Pennsylvania Game Commission Dispatchers, and several national and state wildlife conferences. Peggy developed the certification programs for the wildlife rehabilitation of threatened and endangered species in Pennsylvania, and wildlife capture and transport in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Peggy has also developed WildlifeEDU.com which offers training opportunities for wildlife professionals through online classes. Peggy's first general published work, "Rescuing Wildlife - A Guide to Helping Injured and Orphaned Animals" (Stackpole Books) is now listed at Kindle. A second version (published by Red Creek Wildlife Center) was released in October of 2017. "Zoey Finds a Bunnies Nest" and "Zoey Finds a Fawn" (published by Red Creek Wildlife Center) are her first children's books aimed at helping children learn about backyard wildlife. "Art has been a hobby all my life, and poetry has been a passion since I wrote my first poem at age nine. I never thought these would be used for anything more than my private reflection until the children's books. I hope children and adults will enjoy reading "Zoey Finds a Bunny Nest" and "Zoey Finds a Fawn" as much as I enjoyed writing them." Peggy Peggy is a member of the Pennsylvania Rehabilitation and Education Council, an advisory council to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Peggy shares her life with two Dobermans, parrots, and (of course) the many wild critters who are in Red Creek's care on both a temporary and a permanent basis.