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A Happy Thanksgiving for one lucky Emu |
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We Are One Tammy Yuth President/Rehabilitator
Carol Ekker Vice President/Rehabilitator 360-264-4283
Patty Kaija –Treasurer Linda Anthony—Secretary Marlene Wenger—Board Member
Dr. Gregg Bennett Dr. Lina Wachsmuth Tumwater Veterinary Hospital 360-754-6008
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This November we received a call to rescue a feral Emu that had been living in the Shelton Washington area.
This bird had either escaped from an emu farm or been abandoned by his owners, and had been wandering between a couple of small farms in the area. |
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One of those families became concerned for the emu’s welfare when he began walking up to cars driving by on the county road. They called several organizations asking for help with him, but the only place that would take him was an emu farm. They did not want to rescue him from possibly getting hit on the road only to have him end up as someone’s dinner.
That’s when they contacted We Are One for help. Emus are native to Australia, and are farmed in the United States for their meat, oil and other products. As such they are outside the scope of our mission, and we don’t have the facilities to permanently house exotic animals.
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But we do have a good friend at the Olympic Game Farm, Bob Beebe. We called Bob and he agreed to give this bird a new permanent home with his female emu safe from both cars and butcher shops.
Bob is the grandson of Lloyd Beebe who trained animals for Disney in the 50’s and 60’s. Bob has recently taken over running the Olympic game farm and is in the process of renovating the facility.
This was actually the second time Bob has stepped forward to help us. The first time was a red fox we received that lost her front leg. Initially we did not think the fox was releasable and rather then euthanize her we contacted Bob as a possible permanent home. Bob agreed to provide a home for her, but the fox had other ideas and to everyone’s surprise, she managed to escape her enclosure and is now living wild at the Game Farm.
Thank you Bob for helping us help both of these animals.
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Left: Our escape artist fox right after we got her . Above Right: A European Fallow Deer at the game farm. Right: One of the Kodiak bears on the tour Below: We Are One volunteers (Richard, Mikey, Rachel, and Alex) get a special behind the scenes tour of the Olympic Game Farm. |
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Recently Bob was gracious enough to give some of our volunteers a behind the scene tour of the Olympic Game Farm. Our volunteers met Zimba, the bobcat (Above), up close and personal. Zimba is another rescue at the Olympic Game Farm. Zimba was originally owed as a pet and confiscated by Fish and Wildlife then given to Olympic Game Farm to care for. Sadly too many people acquire wild animals as pets, most often illegally. Most often these animals end up confiscated by wildlife departments or animal control officers. The lucky ones end up in sanctuaries or facilities like Zimba and our emu, but more often they end up being destroyed.
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