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Wildlife Rescue and Transport

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Wildlife & Exotic Animals (ANIM2202)

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Durham College ( )

Very informative document on how to conduct wildlife rescue and transport in the best manner possible. Covers how to handle and restrain a huge number of animals, as well as equipment needed, zoonotic diseases, and how to avoid injury, amongst other information.

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Uploaded on June 30, 2022
Number of pages 6
Written in 2018/2019
Type Class notes
Professor(s) Keri semenko
Contains Wildlife rescue

wildlife
rescue
transport
how to
detailed
animal care
stress
animal husbandry
birds
mammals
reptiles
handling
restraint
health
safety
zoonotic
disease
scratch
parasite
bite

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Wildlife Handling & Restraint

Wildlife Rescue & Transport
Do you have the proper equipment?
 Avoid physical contact where possible (e.g. herding)
 Ensure you are not endangering yourself or other members of the public (i.e. at the side of the
highway)
Is the rescuer aware of zoonotic concerns?
Are there any public safety issues?

Minimizing stress for the animal:
 Bring pets and children inside
 Keep warm, dark, and quiet
 No peeking!
 No food and water
 Is heat therapy necessary? Unless you are concerned about the animal’s body temperature
being too high, heat therapy can be applied.
 Transport animal ASAP

General Guidelines:
Birds:
 Use cardboard box with air holes- ensure box is appropriate size for bird, not too big so that
they try and fly around or too small so that they don’t fit
 Don’t use bird cage- may injure themselves on wire and is difficult to keep dark
Mammals:
 Evaluate on individual basis
Reptiles:
 Turtles: plastic storage container (no lid)
 Snapping Turtle- use caution
 Snakes: pillow cases, plastic storage containers, trash container

Conducting a Physical Exam
Ways to reduce stress:
 Wear gloves
 Prepare in advance
 Diminish sensory perception
 No talking! (Also important for transporting animals as well as no radio, keep windows up, no
smoking)
 No visual contact with predators or prey
 Be careful about potential for disease transmission

Work with a partner

Handling and Restraint Equipment
 Catch Pole
 Nets
 Towels
 Gloves (Latex, Leather, Kevlar)- Standard protection, should be used whenever handling wildlife
 Safety goggles- Standard protection
 Snake hook

, Wildlife Handling & Restraint

 Other tools as needed (sometimes you have to improvise)

Health and Safety Concerns
 Bites
 Scratches
 Zoonotic Disease
 Parasite Transfer
 Muscle Strain
 Eye Injury

Zoonotic Diseases
Used to identify any disease transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans
Can occur by:
 Direct transmission- via contact with the animal, its saliva, its urine, or its feces
 Indirect transmission- via air, soil, or water contaminated by infectious agent

General Guidelines to Avoid Exposure
 Always wear gloves
 Use appropriate safety equipment and proper techniques
 Practice good hygiene
 Clean and disinfect all areas animal was housed or examined- Throw away used bedding, don’t
just wash and reuse
 Examine and house animal in well-ventilated area

When Exposure Occurs
In all situations, the individual must consult their physician and public health officials
Human health must always be the primary consideration

Zoonotic Disease in Wildlife
 Lyme Disease- Spread by a tick from reservoirs such as mice and deer
 Aspergillosis- Caused by a fungus particularly common in the respiratory systems of aquatic
birds and transmitted by the inhalation of spores
 Tularemia- Caused by bacteria common in rabbits, also spread through bites from parasites
 Leptospirosis- Caused by bacteria which is common in urine and feces, particularly in raccoons
 Was previously eradicated in Ontario through vaccination in dogs but because it
wasn’t around, people stopped vaccinating their pets and it came back
 Can cause red eyes, stomach pain, diarrhea, eventually jaundice
 Tuberculosis- Caused by bacteria which can be present in deer and elk
 Airborne- respiratory illness
 Looks like a cold at first, can lead to weight loss symptoms and respiratory
trouble
 Powassan- Caused by a virus which can be found in ticks on woodchucks
 No treatment due to viral cause
 10% of infected people die
 Salmonella- Caused by bacteria that is common to many animals
 Particularly prevalent in reptiles
Three additional zoonoses of which wildlife care workers must be particularly mindful are:
 Rabies

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