Hirschfeld Veterinary Consulting, Inc.

Please donate and share! Lots of great prizes besides the cruise!! Please come visit the center if you have not already seen it, lots of new interactive installations and amazing exhibits!!

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We are excited to announce our 2024 Annual Online Raffle! Help support our Documentation and Educational Outreach programs and enter to win 1 of over 30 amazing raffle prizes, donated by our gracious and generous donors.

The price of one raffle ticket is $100, and if you buy five raffle tickets, you get one free. Check out the full list of prizes and purchase tickets at https://hdec.rallyup.com/hdecraffle2023/Campaign/Details. 🎟️

We greatly appreciate all of your efforts in making this year a success!

So happy I got to spend a good part of today at Flamingo Gardens celebrating Josh the bear’s 25th birthday with him!! He had an amazing sweet potato apple pie, and got salmon sticks, granola bars and strawberries from his papa Laura Wyatt Makella Thea Joseph Ricardo Meade, Shannon Gallagher An extra bonus was getting to see my Trini friends before they head home! Happy birthday Joshy Bear!! 🐻🫶🏼🥰😍🥳🥧🍓

It’s really sad that with the daily extinction of some species on our planet and the encroachment we already have on wildlife, never mind the prediction that Florida will be underwater in the future, the building just never stops!! We need to fund Everglades restoration and wildlife corridors to protect our native wildlife! Not pass laws that wouldn’t be necessary if there was more education (like making it legal to shoot bears if you feel threatened!! 😠). Please speak up and fund programs that protect our native wildlife as best as you can!! 🙏🏻🫶🏼🐹🦊🐻🐸🦉🦅🦇🐺🦋🐝🕷️🦞🦀🦐🦑🐙🪼🐡🦎🐢🐍🐋🐳🐬🐟🐠🦈🦭🐊🐂🦩🦨🦝🦡🦦🐿️🌴

Speak Out & Protect Species Need 1,000 more names

Sad……what a valiant effort though to save these magnificent animals 🙏🏻💔🐬🦈🐋

Yesterday afternoon a large pod of around 45 false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins, stranded at Taylor’s Beach on Mahia Peninsula.

They were refloated at high tide around 3:30pm, assisted by the local community. However, sadly the entire pod re-stranded at a remote and inaccessible reef point further south from Taylor’s Beach on Mahia Peninsula.

We assessed the whales and dolphins had an extremely low chance of being refloated and surviving. Our local rangers made the difficult decision to euthanise the animals to prevent them having suffered overnight.

The stranding incident was first reported to us at about 2pm Sunday afternoon. Our team travelled from Gisborne to Taylor’s Bay, arriving by 5pm, by which time the whales had been initially refloated.

We would like to thank the volunteers, iwi, local community, and Project Jonah volunteers who came to the beach to assist with initial refloating of the whales.

Whale and dolphin strandings are common in New Zealand. Why they strand is not fully known but factors can include sickness, navigational error, geographical features, a rapidly falling tide, being chased by a predator or extreme weather.

Find out about our response and our latest update here: https://bit.ly/3SaHtkR

In speaking to an FWC officer this morning, it is up to the public to fight this!

This has already been approved by the senate last week and is being pushed through today!!! Signatures needed! Public outcry is a must!!

FWC was not involved in the making of this rule, legislature should not be able to legally make this law (just as they did with banning reptile breeding). This is a law FWC should be the ones making. People are going to shoot bears in residential neighborhoods (firing a gun within city limits is now legal since 2018 if you have an acre and your bullet stays within your property limits) and possibly hit a neighbor or passerby!! Please sign this petition!! Bear education is what we need in this state!! Not the legalization to shoot them!!

Can you spare a minute to help Beth Hirschfeld? Help Protect Florida Black Bears!!! Stop Senate Bill 632 & House Bill 87.

Happy New Year’s everyone!!!
Remember between fireworks, noisemakers and general revelry, pets can experience high anxiety on New Year's Eve. Scared pets can bite or run and potentially get hurt, cause accidents or become lost. The best way to keep pets safe is to keep them indoors and comfortable; consider playing relaxing music to drown out any startling outside noises. Make sure fences and gates are secure and that your pet has a current ID tag and that all microchip information is up to date. If your pet has shown signs of extreme anxiety in the past, you might also consult your veterinarian and ask for anti-anxiety medications or natural
Calming agents like L-theanine products (Composure, Anxitane or Solliquin), CBD products (Oils, soft treats or Hard treats like Treatibles, Wilderness or Prana Pets among many) or homeopathic like Bach Flower Remedies or DōTerra oils or other calming preparations. Have a safe and happy new year!! Wishing everyone a 2024 filled with good health, happiness, love, prosperity and peace on earth!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween🎃🏴‍☠️🧜🏻‍♀️🤡💀👻🥳🫶🏼💀🤩😎🤙🏼 Remember to keep your Halloween Candy safe from your let’s who may choke on wrappers or be poisoned by the theobromine or caffeine in chocolates or have diarrhea and vomiting so severely they can die

Please go to the open comments meetings if you can!! These proposed changes will put a lot of rehabbers not at big centers out of business. The proposed changes are NOT beneficial to Florida rehabilitators or wildlife and do nothing to embetter conditions for rehab or their lives. The proposed change to have every single patient see a veterinarian within 72h is an unreasonable requirement that will put a strain on both the Rehabilitator and the veterinary community when both are already overtaxed both with finances and time! Wording needs to be changed to clarify other proposed changes like the IWRC course requirement for new applicants not renewing applicants. This is the time to make your concerns heard!! The proposed changes will be handed in October 28th so if you cannot make a meeting please make your concerns and comments on line by going to:
HTTPS://myFWC.com/license/captive-wildlife/public-comments/

Can you spare a minute to help Beth Hirschfeld? FWC Rules Changes for Wildlife Rehabilitation Permit

Only 33 days left to register for the 5k Walk in the Wild! Register today to help raise funds for much-needed reconstruction and repairs to our animal habitats, including the Panther and Bear Habitats, Owl Alley, the Flamingo Pond, and the Rookery.

Register today at: https://go.rallyup.com/walk-in-the-wild-2023/

Truth 😹

From Bruce S

Routine wellness exams are vital for a cat’s health and wellbeing. National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day is the perfect opportunity to schedule your cat’s annual checkup. Ensure you are prepared for the checkup by following our checklist to help reduce the stress associated with the visit. Learn more at https://bit.ly/44UoeBf.

Sadly true in some communities and definitely not in others! No matter how you slice it, dogs are the best companions! 🥰🐾🫶🏼For all the reasons listed below plus a million others including but not limited to: never leaving their pack, staying by your side when you are sick or sad or scared, hurting, lost🥺🥰………..jogging, walking, eating, sleeping 😂… they will ALWAYS try to be right by their alpha’s side! 🐾🫶🏼
They are the most loyal and loving animals no matter who or what species constitutes their pack. If they perceive a threat to any member of their pack, they become fierce protectors of those they love, no matter their size! Big or small!! Now for some the threat could be something as small as trying to steal a treat from a pack member😄but for most it could be an aggressive or imposing angry stranger or the delivery guy who is just a stranger knocking on your door to them;
Possibly trying to invade their den!🙀
I agree about the bad-assery of the working dog and that Ht sucks that some communities do discriminate. I’m lucky to live in a pet friendly area, the guy who wrote this clearly makes his point but should move if he doesn’t live in a pet friendly place! We have pet friendly restaurants, dog beaches, parks and even water parks! Still I know the difficulty of renting as a dog owner who has always had big dogs! Animal discrimination sucks, especially for the well behaved animals AND their people. It’s usually the irresponsible people who get the animals banned in their communities! Sad but true!

Love recycle Art (was my favorite medium), these are so cool! 🐑☎️ just realizing so many kids have never seen one of these in real life! How crazy is that?? Kitchen and hall phone cords were strangely long and stretched out, usually from multiple people winding it around their limbs and waists while talking! 😂🤣

Recycled telephones and cords

Our star bobcat ambassador Andy has an important safety message!!

On this Talk About It Tuesday post, we focus on traffic safety since August is National Traffic Awareness Month. As our local populations grows, we build more development that encroaches more and more on our local wildlife habitat. And with that comes more accidents between vehicle and animal.

According to State Farm's most recent analysis, there were an estimated 50,800 animal collision claims for Florida (July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021), compared to the previous year of approximately 38,800.

Our two year old bobcat, Andy, came to us in 2021, after he was orphaned due to a hit and run accident where his pregnant mother died on impact, but he fortunately survived. So what can you do to make a difference?

1. Pay attention to the road!
2. Follow traffic safety rules. Watch your speed!
3. Encourage others to follow traffic safety rules.

Imagine leaving your pet or child in your car? Dangerous temps like we have had for the last 43+ days aren’t needed for heatstroke to happen. The risk is in Florida, and other warm
Climates, almost year round! Always check the back seat 🙏🏻🐾🫶🏼🤟🏼

Using Texas heat as an oven: National Weather Service bakes cookies in car They took to Facebook to measure the weather while taking photo updates of their cookie-baking progress.

After completing 43 days in a row of triple digit temps, some important reminders! Always double check, it’s a good habit to hone!

My house may resemble this lately 😂it’s 4 dogs and 2 cats though and the 2 cats are not too comfortable yet with the two newest but oldest dogs!! 🫶🏼🐾