Pocono Wildlife Rehab Center
Cherry Valley, PA
I hired a teacher to teach biology at my high school. I was the assistant principal at the time. It was 1989. This woman had just started a wildlife rehab center on her own. She paid for everything, out of her own, damn pocket. In the 30 years that she has been doing this work of mercy, she has grown in facility, skills, reputation and generosity. This facility is huge. And she still does everything for FREE. She gets grants now and she fund raises and she begs for donations and gifts and volunteer time. But she has saved thousands of animals from squirrels, rabbit, birds, bear, deer, fox, wolves, etc, She is remarkable. I am afraid of these animals and she embraces them, restores them and releases them back in to the wild.
I would go in to her class to observe her teaching and she would have bald eagles and ground hogs and other animals that the students could see first hand. One time a parent came in to my office to see me and she informed me that she saw a car in the faculty parking lot that had a deer in the back seat. I had to explain to her that this was Kathy's car and that deer was on a strict medicine administration schedule. Kathy ran out in between classes and tended to this deer. And when it was better, she released it back in the woods where it probably was hunted a few weeks later.
I went to visit her a few weeks back. A wolf had just arrived. She took me in to the pen with him. And then it dawned on me that I was in a pen with a wild wolf. I got out as quickly as possible. But she stayed in there for a few minutes and played with him as if he was a young puppy. "Isn't he beautiful?", she asked me. I was too afraid to notice his beauty.
Some people in my world are more generous than others.
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