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| 29.10.2013, 11:30 - fenpxsli - Pfeifenkopp - 205 Posts People flock to Elburn wildlife center open house ELBURN The Fox Valley Wildlife Center, 45W061 Highway 38, shared its wildlife inhabitants with visitors during its annual open house on Sunday afternoon. The big event featured a cake walk, pie walk, bake sale, pumpkin and pine cone painting, free popcorn and cider, a raffle and an opportunity to spend time with native creatures. "Yodi found the center in 2009 from a litter of three that was found under a porch without their mother," said volunteer Ethan Neil of St. Charles. "His favorite meals are chicken." Since Yodi never became aggressive enough to deal with himself,canada goose online buy, he can't be released into the wild. The middle is a nonprofit organization that is independent of Elburn Woods Forest Preserve, in which the center is situated. It does not receive federal, state, county or local funding. It relies solely on taxdeductible donations in order to care for orphaned or injured animals. The middle has about 60 volunteers to assist look after approximately 20 birds,www.fairhomeinteriors.ca/archives/1959, 70 mammals, and some reptiles. Along with consuming injured squirrels, Neil said, the center is among the few shelters that accepts injured pigeons in the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors. Ashley Flint may be the center's director. Carol Stream resident Kim Baldyga, a member of Field of Dreams Horse Rescue in Batavia, said Flint does amazing work. "Field of Dreams Horse Rescue and Fox Valley Wildlife Center support one another," Baldyga said. "We share volunteers. I remember when i watched Ashley helping a swan that were attacked by other swans. The skin on his neck was hanging down. Ashley stitched him up and glued his ear drum." Savanna Chimenti, 12, of Sugar Grove likes to volunteer at the center because she can really interact with the animals when she feeds them. Chimenti and fellow volunteer Sue Lester of South Elgin showed Snitch the opossum to visitors on Sunday. "Snitch was injured with a car in 2010," said Lester. "She was braindamaged and blind with her palate broken. She was at the University of Illinois wildlife clinic before she came here. Since playing dead is definitely an involuntary response by opossums and Snitch never feels threatened, she doesn't do it. She does sleep a great deal. You can cuddle with her and pick her up. Her favorite meals are watermelon." Volunteer Jamie Rothstein of St. Charles said Lucy the Canada goose likes grapes and sweet corn. "Lucy was released twice around the Fox River, but she prefers to follow people," Rothstein said. "While Canada geese were once endangered,canada goose online, they are now experiencing a population explosion. There's a lot open water around here they no longer need to migrate. The warmer weather causes ponds to freeze after before." The Kane County Mounted Rangers attended the open house on Sunday so children often see their horses close up. St. Charles resident Kate Leidi continues to be with the mounted rangers for 18 years. "We do parades, search and rescue operations, and patrol forest preserves," Leidi said. "I once found an 8yearold boy at Leroy Oakes Forest Preserve (at St. Charles). He was hiding while he was afraid that his mother would be mad at him for getting lost. He was crying and scared. I offered to allow him to ride my horse with me. As he was reunited together with his mother, he explained he wanted to ride the horse again." DeKalb sisters Mindy Walker and Jessica Williams came to the middle on Sunday to exhibit visitors Cornelius the albino corn snake, Toby the threetoed box turtle, plus some Vietnamese walking stick insects. To ensure that children to learn more about the upcoming presidential election, Walker asserted TAILS Humane Society in DeKalb and also the Midwest Museum of Natural History in Sycamore are holding their very own presidential election. Hercules, a huge tortoise, may be the museum's candidate, while TAILS is supporting Athena the hare. The general public will vote online for the winner, and elementary school children assists on the Electoral College that decides the race between the tortoise and also the hare. The Fox Valley Wildlife Center operates on fundraisers, memberships and donations. Calendars, sweatshirts,parajumpers canada, Tshirts and baseball caps with the center's logo can be purchased to boost money for the center. |