• Injuries. Most injuries are caused by animals who have been caught by a dog or cat or hit by a car.
• Illness. Animals become ill for a variety of reasons, including parasites and diseases such as Lyme disease, West Nile Virus, or parvovirus.
• Displacement. In nature, animal parents do not leave their young. However, circumstances beyond their control sometimes prevent them from raising their young. For example, the parents may have been killed, leaving the young orphaned. Young animals can be displaced, rather than truly orphaned—perhaps a human inadvertently intervened by excluding an adult animal from a house without realizing the adult's young were still trapped inside, or perhaps someone cut down a tree without realizing the tree held a nest of young.
  
  
  

We also occasionally see animals such as coyotes, foxes, and shore and wading birds.

Our new building will provide us with additional hospital space and a new public education area. This new facility will allow us to provide complete onsite veterinary care for wild animals, including surgeries, radiology, and isolation. The new facility will greatly improve our ability to provide emergency care and will enable us to quarantine ailing animals more effectively to prevent the spread of disease.

In addition, the new facility will eventually accommodate public areas where members of the community can learn more about local wildlife, and it will allow us to present education programs for small groups. Raising awareness about local species has always been a core part of the Center's mission. Now we will have the opportunity to share even more information and to help ensure that future generations maintain a strong interest in the natural world around us.