Kawartha Wildlife Centre is helping animals you can’t take to your usual vet
Global News
In the last couple of weeks, the centre has seen deer mice, gulls, a bunny, a Tennessee warbler and a great blue heron, said executive director Lorna Wilson.
Kawartha Wildlife Centre is a charity organization, in Ennismore Ont., that takes in and cares for injured animals.
“This incarnation has been around since 2019,” said centre executive director, Lorna Wilson.
“We have a small little facility. There is less than 350 sq. ft. of space for the animals, but we are still able to help small animals and birds and a large variety of species.”
She said if they aren’t able to help a particular animal, they will do their best to direct people to the right organization.
“In the last couple of weeks, we have had anything from deer mice to herons, to gulls, a Tennessee warbler,” Wilson said.
She said birds and bunnies are their most common patients and, at the time of our visit, the centre was housing a rabbit and a young great blue heron.
The bunny was recovering from a run-in with a dog.
“A dog grabbed him, brought him to the back door, and they didn’t know where he came from,” Wilson said.
