Anyone here licensed for wildlife rehab?

[CTReptileRescue]

Anyone, anyone.
I am getting alott of calls this spring.
One out of Stamford today. Some nice folks found "a foot and a half long turtle" in the road and wanted to save it.
I know these are good people and they are just trying to do the right thing. I think the problem is that most people don't know what the right thing to do is.
Then when I tell them the best thing for the turtle is to put it back. To put it at the side of the road it was heading to, they think i am a horrible person. "It's going to die, there isn't a pond".
Ok folks these turtles have been around long before us, and will hopefully be here for years to come.
A road is not going to stop millions of years of evolution. Plus I can't move the road out of the turtles habitat. Maybe in my next life, but not this one.
OK now the crazy voices in my head have calmed themselves.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Rusty

[frankykeno]

Vent away sweetie, you probably needed it. Just like the folks that will come upon a whitetail fawn curled up and insist on "rescuing" it because "it's mother has OBVIOUSLY abandoned it and it will DIE!!!".

[CTReptileRescue]

Thanks Jo....
My son was behind my shoulder and likes to look at the smiling faces on the side where you write your post. Then when I posted it he asked who I was sending it too, I told him all my friends at BP.net. He asked why I told them I was crazy?
They already know I am bud..lol
Rusty

[Shadrach]

Yeah lets not forget the nest of baby bunnies the mother has abandoned. Because they don't realize the mother bunny only returns twice a day for feedings.

[frankykeno]

I remember friends of ours with this pic of their parents on vacation in northern Ontario, Canada. They were hugging a wild moose calf! All I could think of was..."OMG do they not realize just how big and just how protective a cow moose is!" They will easily drive wolves off of their young! Those folks had no clue how lucky they were to get away with that stupid picture (other than the absolute needless stress placed on a young wild creature to be handled by humans for a photo op )

[tigerlily]

I had a friend who worked at Yellowstone, and had people put their children on the wild buffalo. Then wondered where did they stable them at night!!

I did work in wildlife rehab. Confiscated a red tail hawk, some guy was driving around with in the front seat of his jeep. I love the one where this guy called and told us he was dropping off a half drowned hawk - it was a pigeon! LOL!! Couldn't convince him it wasn't a hawk. So many fawns were brought in, because people were sure that it was abandoned. (JUST LEAVE IT ALONE DANGIT) Soo many baby birds too. Of course the mother won't come back, you need to go away first.