Through Animals' Eyes: True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary

230 Pages·1999·3.12 MB·English

by  Lynn Marie Cuny

Through Animals' Eyes : True Stories From
title:
a Wildlife Sanctuary
author: Cuny, Lynn Marie.
publisher: University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin: 1574410628
print isbn13: 9781574410624
ebook isbn13: 9780585263144
language: English
Wildlife rescue--Texas--Anecdotes,
Wildlife rehabilitation--Texas--Anecdotes,
subject
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc.--
Anecdotes.
publication date: 1998
lcc: QL83.2.C85 1998eb
ddc: 639.9/09764
Wildlife rescue--Texas--Anecdotes,
Wildlife rehabilitation--Texas--Anecdotes,
Wildlife rehabilitation--Texas--Anecdotes,
subject:
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc.--
Anecdotes.
Page i
Through Animals' Eyes
True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary
Lynn Marie Cuny
Page ii
© 1998 Lynn Marie Cuny
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America.
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PO Box 311336
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The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Materials, z39.48.1984. Binding materials have been chosen
for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cuny, Lynn Marie, 1951
Through animals' eyes : true stories from a wildlife
sanctuary / Lynn Marie Cuny.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-57441-062-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Wildlife rescueTexas-Ancedotes. 2. Wildlife
rehabilitationTexasAnecdotes. 3. Wildlife Rescue &
Rehabilitation, Inc.Anecdotes. I. Title.
QL83.2.C85 1999
639.9'09764dc21 98-32109
CIP
Photographs in the book are by Tim Ajax, Bill Terry, Tom Adams and
from the WRR Archives. Design by Angela Schmitt.
Printed on recycled paper.
Page iii
To my beloved parents, Agnes Grenrood Cuny and Robert
Cuny, who taught me to laugh, to love and appreciate
Nature, and to follow my heart every day of my life
and
to all non-human animals everywhere who have been
deprived of their birthright to a life of peace, freedom and
respect as sensient beings
Page v
Contents
Preface vii
The History of Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation ix
1 1
A Day in the Duck Family's Life
2 6
An Emu Looking for a Friend
3 12
The White Pelican
4 17
The Buck and the Doe
5 22
The Three-Legged Coyote
6 27
The Great Egret's Flight
7 31
The Fox Couple
8 36
The Magnificent Seven
9 41
The Fox and Flora, the Guardian Hen
10 46
Rescued from the Dark
11 51
The Vulture's Flight
12 56
Love At First Sight
13 59
Hope Comes to Syra
14 63
The Natural Healer
15 68
The Scissortail Flycatcher
16 72
Snapshots from the Sanctuary
17 84
The Baby Field Mouse
18 87
The Female Bobcat
19 92
The Great Horned Owl
20 96
The Macaque Sisters
21 100
The Fawn and the Doe
22 105
Bertha, Huey and the Bachelor Duck
23 110
The Crippled Raccoon
24 114
The Two Bobcats
25 119
Miles and Priscilla
26 122
The Squirrel Determined to Be a Mama
27 127
The Two Herons
Page vi
28 130
The Mocker Takes a Sparrow
29 135
Hansel and Gretel
30 140
His Brother's Keeper
31 146
The Dove Family and the Dog