No room at animal shelter for wildlife rescue group

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A16/Irvine World News
May 27, 2004
No room at animal shelter
for wildlife rescue group
BY LAYLAN CONNELLY
IRVINE WORLD NEWS
A raccoon with black fur, white
streaks and a brown belly bolts up
and plops its long claws over cage
bars, peering closely at a passerby
using its one good eye.
Illness blinded the other eye.
When the now spunky raccoon
was brought to the Pacific Wildlife
Project, its body was home to maggots living inside deep wounds.
At least 50 other creatures likely
will fend for themselves after Pacific Wildlife, located off of Sand
Canyon and Oak Canyon, shuts
down. After seven years leasing a
building at the city’s animal shelter, the organization has been
asked to leave and is searching for
a new place to care for wild birds
and small mammals.
The city has plans –– and always
has had –– to expand the animal
“Without us, these animals will
be euthanized or die,” said Linda
Winkle, volunteer coordinator at
the Pacific Wildlife Project.
Deanna Manning, community
services director, said the city
needs the building for a new animal control unit because of Irvine’s
increasing population. It would be
an extension of two existing animal control buildings. The city,
however, generally cares for only
domestic animals such as cats,
dogs and rabbits.
Winkle said her center is the only safe haven in south Orange
County where wild animals can be
taken. A center in Huntington
Beach cares for birds, where the
city says it will start transporting
injured birds and small animals.
The center won’t, however, take
crows and other types of birds,
LAYLAN CONNELY/IRVINE WORLD NEWS
This raccoon was brought to the Pacific Wildlife Sanctuary after becoming
blind in one eye.
control division into the building
occupied by Pacific Wildlife,
which serves as both a foster home
and rehabilitation center for injured or abandoned birds and
small mammals.
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Wildlife: City needs buildings
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Winkle notes.
“We’re not abandoning the birds or
doing anything of that nature. We’re
simply exercising what we need to do.
We’ll do everything we can to ensure
the birds will have a safe environment,” Manning said.
The city will determine if animal control can care for ducklings that are
found abandoned at Woodbridge Lake.
A dozen week-old ducklings–– each
small enough to scoop up in the palm of
a hand –– live in a fish tank that serves
as an incubator, snuggled under a red
heat lamp. As babies, they cannot produce oils in their feathers to keep them
warm, and can easily suffer hypothermia, Winkle said.
A note taped onto the fish tank reads:
“Found in concrete parking structure.
No ponds or creek around. No mom.”
There are dozens of ducks at the center at any given time, Winkle said.
Other animals include an injured
pelican that sits behind a sign that
reads “Intensive Care.” A Canada
goose –– described as a powerful bird
full of muscle –– hops on its left foot
around his 8-foot tall cage. The other
foot is limp and dangles.
Throughout the years, thousands of
birds and small animals have been
patched up at the center, Winkle said.
Former patients include brown pelicans who had fishing lines wrapped
around their bills, or hooks deep in
their legs or breasts. Volunteers bring
them in from Newport Beach and Dana
Point harbors.
Pacific Wildlife has been at its site for
the last seven years. It came here on an
emergency basis in the wake of a botulism outbreak among brown pelicans at
the Salton Sea.
Not only does the center work to save
animals, it serves as a place to volunteer for individuals and groups, including teens from the Braille Institute.
The partially-sighted adolescents will
soon be holding a pancake breakfast to
raise funds for Pacific Wildlife.
The center has been in negotiations
several times with the city to keep leasing the building. The deadline for moving is June 30.
“They’ve been asked to move on a
number of occasions throughout the
years,” said Manning. “We need those
buildings.”
Contact the reporter: Laylan Connelly at (949) 553-2911 or Lconnelly@ocregister.com.
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