Time is a real factor.
Working with the animals has become a full time job for me. The total number of wild animals treated in 1999 was 502. Add to that a considerable number of exotic domestics - those pets that some people purchase as a novelty and quickly tire of or realize they are too time intensive. In the inception year of 1993 and for a few years following, this was a seasonal avocation, with the greatest amount of work being done during baby season , April to September. Last winter, there was hardly a week when we didn t receive several injured adult animals. . .