WildCare is a wildlife rehabilitation organization here in California. They treat all mammals and birds. A hoary bat came in with a compound fracture of the metacarpal. Their vet pinned the bone with a hypodermic needle. This is proper bat care. If someone had brought this bat to Amanda Lollar, she would have pulled out scissors and just cut the wing off forcing the bat to live out its life in her "care." Amanda Lollar says pinning doesn't work. Pinning does work. Many bat veterinarians can and have pinned wings. This bat might not be releasable. We don't know yet. At least he has a chance. Even if he were not releasable, at least he would still have his wing and could fly.
 |
Bats that are taken in by wildlife rehabilitators will have dental issues because of their captive diet. Meal worm residue causes their teeth to develop tartar. What does WildCare do in this situation? They brush the bats teeth. Again, this is proper care. What does Amanda Lollar do? She obviously doesn't brush all 200 of her unreleasable insectivorous bats. She lets tartar accumulate, they get gun disease and their teeth rot. Then Amanda Lollar takes out tweezers and yanks them out with no pain relief. WildCare rehab all mammals and birds, not just bats. If a wildlife rehabilitation facility that doesn't specialize in bats can treat their bats properly, why not Amanda Lollar? It's because she doesn't care. There are books out there that could show her vet how to pin wings but Amanda Lollar won't hear of it. If she didn't write (plagiarize) the book, she won't read it. So many bats aren't getting proper care at Bat World Sanctuary for this reason. Plus, she doesn't like spending money on vet care. She'd rather blow $20,000 a month in legal fees to harass me. She also wastes money buying Facebook fans. She also admitted to spending thousands of dollars making all of her ihatemary websites and blogs. Amanda Lollar does not care about bats at all.
Another note. Amanda Lollar states she invented the captive diet for bats. No, she did not. Even if she were to have invented "feeding insects to insectivorous bats," it's not a perfect diet. The meal worm stickiness causes dental issues. I feed hoary bats crickets and some mealworms. I don't feed only mealworms. I think a better diet could be developed which won't cause dental issues.
"A Hoary Bat gets her teeth brushed
Lying in the middle of the road at dusk, this injured Hoary Bat was lucky she was found.
Her rescuer made sure to put on gloves (never touch a bat with bare hands!), and then scooped her into a paper grocery bag and brought her to WildCare.
The reason for intake was obvious— a compound fracture of the metacarpal bone of her right wing's fifth digit. But how did she break just the one bone? And how do you fix such a miniscule break?Story continues below..
http://www.wildcarebayarea.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Animal_Emails_HoaryBat_November2013&utm_source=housefile&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WeeklyEmail
For wildlife rehabilitators, here is the absolute best book on proper bat veterinary care. It's written by many bat veterinarians. It's one book in a four book series that is the bible of bat care. If you want to help bats, this is the book you need. I have all four books.
http://www.amazon.com/Bats-Captivity-Biological-Medical-Aspects/dp/1934899038/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384967924&sr=1-3&keywords=susan+barnard+bats
Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.
- Mary Cummins LinkedIn
- Mary Cummins Meet up
- Animal Advocates custom Facebook name
- Mary Cummins Real Estate blog
- Animal Advocates on Google maps
- Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates
- Mary Cummins biography resume short
- Mary Cummins Real Estate Services
- Animal Advocates fan page at Facebook.com
- Mary Cummins Animal Advocates Squirrel Rescue
- Mary Cummins Animal Advocates on Flickr photos
- Mary Cummins Animal Advocates on Twitter.com
- Mary Cummins on Picasa web photo albums
- Mary Cummins on MySpace.com
- Mary Cummins on Google Blogger Blogspot
- Mary Cummins on YouTube.com videos
- Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates on Classmates
- Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates on Google+