From FaceBook
Reminder about our baby Donkey naming contest. We are getting a lot of great suggestions for his name.
Please share with your friends, to help spread the word, so we can get our little guy a name.
We can't keep calling him 'baby donkey' anymore, so we are having a Donkey naming contest! Everyone is invited to enter a suggested name. We ask you make a $5 donation for each entry name you submit. The winning name will be drawn at random, and the winner will receive a $25 Starbucks gift card!! ☕☕☕
See below for more details..PLEASE SHARE!
We can't keep calling him 'baby donkey' anymore, so we are having a Donkey naming contest! Everyone is invited to enter a suggested name. We ask you make a $5 donation for each entry name you submit. The winning name will be drawn at random, and the winner will receive a $25 Starbucks gift card!! ☕☕☕
There are 2 ways to enter:
1) Come by the rescue, fill out an entry slip, and leave your donation. (Cash/check/Credit cards accepted)
2) Donate thru the "donate" button on this post, and in the COMMENTS, leave the name you wish to submit to enter into the contest. We will go thru all of the comments and fill out entry slips for every name suggestion.
Deadline to submit an entry and donate is 10/28/18. Winning entry will be drawn on 11/1/18.
The winner will be notified via phone, or FB, depending on how the entry was made. We ask you please only enter a name suggestion on our Fb page if you have donated the $5, otherwise things are going to get a bit confusing to keep track.
Donations will go towards the vetting and healthcare of the baby Donkey, who would have died in the womb along with his mother once they reached a slaughterhouse in Mexico if they were not rescued from an Asheboro killpen and invited to live here at Skywatch. Baby Donkey was born just days before Hurricane Florence. Their story might give u name inspiration!
Happy naming !
Emu's contribution to the work day was to get in everyone's way, and follow really closely!
We would like to thank everyone that came out for the work day today, we made lots of nice progress!
We have been getting calls about this poor Pelican for several days now, unfortunately the callers that reached out to us were unable or unwilling to stay with the bird and keep eyes on it, until a volunteer arrives for capture. Seeing as most of our volunteers live in Wilmington and we are low on mobile Manpower right now, it sometimes takes a little while before we can reach a bird that's all the way in Carolina Beach or Fort Fisher, and if no one watches the bird, he is gone most of the time once we arrive. We finally caught up with this bird today, and are able to treat him now for his condition related to having a treble hook and lure stuck in his wing along with fishing line he was entangled in. He also have cuts inside of his mouth from a different hook that tore through his pouch skin. After a pain medication, antibiotics, and a full belly of fish he is feeling much better now and resting. He will very soon make a full recovery and return to the wild.
We are in need of more First Responders, and Transporters that live near the Kure Beach, Fort Fisher, Carolina beach, and Monkey Junction areas. If you are not afraid of birds, and want to make an impactful and life saving difference in your community for them, please consider becoming one of our catchers to help birds reach the rescue. First Responders are trained to catch the birds contain them and transport them, if you have physical restrictions and cannot do captures you can still provide life-saving help by being a transporter, (which is essentially a birdie Uber for birds that are already boxed up or contained but simply need a ride in). A capture and handling class is provided to all. It is a 12-week commitment, there is no set schedule, you simply respond to the alerts if you're available when you see them. We normally ask Transporters and First Responders to try to do at least two captures or transports per month, to keep the skillset well practiced.
These birds lives depend on the fact that someone is willing to go out and roll up their sleeves and catch them and put them in their car and drive them to the rescue. If you would like to be one of those people, please message us. The next chapter and handling class is October 14th here at the rescue. Must RSVP.
Serious inquiries only please.