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injured wildlife that has come to
us in need of help.
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Cars, Boats, ATVs
Do you have an old car,
boat, snowmobile or ATV
you would
like to get rid of?
You can donate it to
Kindred Kingdoms.
If you would like to donate,
please call Jean at
(315) 695-6418.
This will greatly help us
continue
to care for our furred
and feathered friends.
United
Way
If you are contributing to the
to the United Way, and you
would like
to designate your contribution to
Kindred Kingdoms.
Call Jean at
(315) 695-6418
and we will direct
you to the
correct contact
for your county.
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Big
Brown Bat Pup...
Probably our greatest success story this
year was the release of a brown bat pup
that came to us the size of a honey bee.
We got a call from Suzanne Ray in Meridian who had found a tiny bat
pup in the grass
by her house. She carefully wrapped it in a towel and got it in a box
and brought it to us. It was obviously a newborn that had fallen off
its mother’s back. It appeared healthy and was eager to
drink the special formula I had prepared for it.
Over time he grew and was ready to eat mealworms and crickets on his
own. As he got bigger, he was moved to increasingly larger
habitats. Now I knew my work was cut out
for me since bats are not born knowing how to fly. They are trained
by their attentive mothers who can retrieve them if they fall to the
ground. After lengthy phone conversations with Mary Francis Farrell,
a bat specialist in Lake Placid, we began our flying lessons.
She told me that he would not be ready for release until he could sustain
flight for at least five minutes. He must be able to make turns and
land on a tree or pole so that he could leap into flight again.
With each flying lesson he became stronger and more adept. Finally
the day arrived when I gently tossed him into the air in our back yard.
I watched as he took flight and banked around over my head. Soon
he turned again and flew all the way to the end of the tree line in
the back wood lot. He turned again and kept circling around and
around the pasture. I watched him gain altitude and then swoop
down and get lift again. It was a great feeling of accomplishment
for both of us. We wish him well and hope that he will snack on
the thousands of mosquitoes in the area.
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If
you share our passion for wildlife, please consider donating in memory
of a loved one or leaving a legacy in your will to Kindred Kingdoms.
Bequests will allow us to continue the care we give for the ever-increasing
number of animals we receive each year.
Wish
List
New items that we have added to our wish list include: gift cards from:
Wegmans, Home Depot, Lowes, Staples, and Kinkos. We also always need
natural items such as: acorns, beechnuts, hollow logs, rotted logs,
maple sap, maple seeds, drift wood, flat stones, walnuts, hickory nuts,
and wild grapevine.
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Thanks
to Our Veterinarians
Kindred
Kingdoms sends a hearty
thank you to all the veterinarians who have been willing to assist us
this year with injured wildlife.
They are:
Dr. Lender, Dr. Wolfer, Dr. Gilbraith,
Dr. Cargill, Dr. Davis,
Dr. Hammerschmidt, Dr. Wallace,
Dr. Capparelli, and all the vets at the Wildife Clinic at Cornell.
We couldn’t do it without them.
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