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Wild About Wildlife Month: Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre needs a helping wing with HPAI
Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre needs a helping wing with HPAI

Wild Wednesday: Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre shares what you need to know about bird flu and how they are coping

This year my conversation about conservation with the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre (OVWBCC) team flew me in a different direction. Wildlife rescue is serious business. It’s even more so when navigating a contagious viral infection like H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more commonly referred to as avian flu or ‘bird flu.’


It’s difficult to provide care to animals with infections diseases. The prognosis can be worse and risks increase for other animals in the facility and in some cases, humans too. Imagine the patient who tested positive and can’t talk- only tweet! And I’m not talking about Twitter. That’s the challenge the OVWBCC is facing right now. 

I connected with Patty McLaughlin, OVWBCC Education Program Manager, and Sandra Sawers, OVWBCC Executive Director to learn

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Helping Your Dog Through Separation Anxiety

Photo by Matilda Wormwood from Pexels

Separation anxiety is the term used for dogs who struggle to cope being home alone without the company of their owners or another human companion. When left alone, these dogs will perform separation-related behaviors that signal to us that they are in distress. These behaviors range from vocalizing, digging, and generally trying to get the attention of the person who left them. It can, however, lead to destructive behaviors such as injuring themselves and damaging your home if it progresses.

Common signs to identify separation anxiety

Some of the milder behaviors a dog with separation anxiety may display can be something as small as they will not eat treats you left them until you return. This might not be damaging to your house or your dog but is just one of the smaller clues that might tell you that your dog does not feel

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How animal shelters are helping conserve animals immediately after Hurricane Ida

It really is not just the folks of Louisiana and Mississippi who are working with the awful aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

Animal shelters nationwide are pitching in to enable evacuate all the animals in will need from the two states following the Group 4 hurricane prompted significant destruction and widespread electrical power outages.

Kerry Sanders spent time with a pair of lovely canines at the Humane Society of Broward County in Dana Beach, Florida, on Currently Wednesday as the group performs to assist animals in distress obtain a new house.

Numerous of the cats and canines transported to shelters close to the nation will not return to Louisiana and Mississippi, which implies they are on the lookout for new properties in new states. Eight animals have previously been adopted at the Humane Culture of Broward County.

Companies from Washington, D.C., to San Diego have been functioning to bring the animals

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