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Slow week!

11/22/2015

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With few phone calls and no new intakes this past week, it felt almost like a holiday. Nice! I don’t expect it to last, but we’ll see…

The HBC screech from last week didn’t make it. If you’ll recall, he was alert and able to snap his beak at me and even eat, but still acted a bit concussed and had a bloody eye. Since he came in late Saturday, the plan was to take him to Smalley’s Animal Hospital for a thorough eye exam on Monday—in fact, I’d already discussed him with Richie Hatcher Sunday evening. 

However…Monday morning I discovered that he’d died during the night—AFTER eating another small mouse. When I texted Richie that I wouldn’t be bringing him in after all and described what had happened, he said it sounded like the screech had a brain bleed, so in effect he was dying from the moment of intake—and it wouldn’t have shown on an x-ray, so there was really nothing we could have done about that. At least he died in a warm, safe environment, with his belly full.

Meanwhile, our screech trio is still in residence. The predicted good weather last week didn’t pan out, as we experienced rain every other day. I’m really beginning to suspect those little feathered hooligans are in cahoots with Mother Nature to keep the weather juuuust nasty enough to preclude their release!
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Once again, the weather forecast for this coming week looks good for a release—as of today—so we’ll keep our fingers crossed that the forecast is correct for this week. These rascals need to be released ASAP.
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As many of you know, we’ve been doing a LWR calendar for the past several years now as an end-of-year fundraiser.  Unfortunately, these don’t tend to sell well; most years we’re lucky to sell 10 of them, making them hardly worth the effort to produce and garnering less than $100 in funds for LWR. With this in mind, I’m taking a new approach this year. The calendars will sell for $20 plus shipping, with purchasers able to order directly through Lulu.com, as in previous years. LWR will receive $8 for each calendar sold, per Lulu’s terms. However, this year I’m asking for a firm commitment to buy from at least 25 people before going to the effort of creating a calendar. If I don’t have firm commitments from 25 people by Dec. 4, there will be no 2016 LWR calendar.
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Hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving Thursday!
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Ann Feldman
11/22/2015 10:04:24 pm

Chuckling about the Three Stooges, er, Screeches. I'd love to order a calendar. Um, any idea how to do this ;-) ? Too bad about the fourth screech ... but a kiss for Larry Mo and Curley.

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Laurens Wildlife Rescue
11/22/2015 10:15:05 pm

Hey Ann, they're quite the trio, huh?! If I have 25 firm commitments to order by Dec. 4, I'll create the calendar and post links for ordering in the Dec. 5 update.

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Pipette
11/26/2015 01:02:23 am

Wishing you a peaceful (and perhaps screech-less?) Thanksgiving!

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Laurens Wildlife Rescue
11/26/2015 03:21:19 pm

Thanks Pipette, and hope your Thanksgiving is happy!

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