Posts by Aileen
by Guest Blogger Emily Davenport Executive Director, Founder Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance We’ve heard this story before… “A raccoon was trapped and relocated, now I have a bunch of squirrels trying to get into the attic.” Or “A skunk was relocated, and now there are rats in the crawlspace.” Wildlife has its checks and…
Read MoreBlue Rose Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary
By Guest Blogger, Cheryl Webb, Founder & Owner Springfield, Colorado The Rescue Blue Rose Ranch, Inc. rescues, rehabilitates, and trains horses for adoption. My husband John and I founded Blue Rose Ranch in 2006 because of our concern regarding the growing problem of unwanted horses and the typically inhumane treatment of horses caught in…
Read MoreHorses Belong in Pastures, not on Plates
By Roland Halpern Executive Director, Colorado Voters for Animals In 2007, with the passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, the three horse slaughterhouses operating in the United States were shuttered. The act stripped federal funding for horse meat inspectors, meaning horse meat could not be sold as food for human consumption. This didn’t…
Read MoreTales from the Sand Wash Basin Wild Horse Roundup: StellaLuna – One Year Later
By Amy Hefestay The 2021 wild horse helicopter roundup in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area (HMA) in northwest Colorado took place in the first week of September, 2021. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) own documentation states that, “Helicopters should travel at a speed that matches the slowest horse, to avoid separating…
Read MoreLessons From a Mangy Coyote: Why Anticoagulant Rodenticides Must Go
By Guest Blogger Will Falk, Writer, Lawyer, and Environmental Activist Edited by Sunny Weber, Author, Behaviorist, Humane Educator Heartbreak in the Wild The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke. Most of her fur was gone. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions, had a sickly pink pallor. Her tail…
Read MoreSpring House Guests
By Jack Murphy, CEO of Urban Wildlife Rescue Spring is almost here and that means one thing–babies. Although mice, rats, rabbits and pigeons have young year around, most animals give birth in the spring. The majority of wild animals give birth to and raise their young outside, but squirrels and raccoons sometimes choose human habitats to…
Read MoreRabbits as Pet Companions: Why Rabbits Make Good Housemates
by Nancy LaRoche Guest Blogger and Rabbit Specialist Domestic rabbits make wonderful pet companions—for the right people. Domestic rabbits are descended from the European wild rabbit, yet their physical, emotional, and intellectual needs are quite different from those of the wild cottontails found throughout North America. There many breeds of rabbits that are suitable as…
Read MoreTilly: The True Story of a Rabbit Who Overcame Impossible Odds
By Nancy LaRoche Founder of the Colorado House Rabbit Society & Guest Blogger The once beautiful red and white mini-rex rabbit lay suffering in her urine. There had been no food for days, and the last of her water had been lapped what seemed like long ago. Now she was too weak to move. She…
Read MoreThe Inadvertent Urban Animal Trap–Window Wells!
by Jack Murphy If you live in a house that has a basement, you probably have window wells, also called egress windows. A window well is a hole around a basement window that allows light to enter the basement and also offers human residents a means of escape in case of fire. Unfortunately, window wells…
Read MoreTales From The Sand Wash Basin Wild Horse Roundup: The 25th Stallion
By Amy Hefestay Photo A: Picasso Junior, aka PJ. The son of famed Sand Wash Basin stallion, Picasso The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) began the roundup of the horses in Colorado’s Herd Management Area (HMA) called the Sand Wash Basin (SWB), on Wednesday, September 1st. Prior to the roundup start, the BLM promised to…
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