“My name is Dawn. I am the Founder and Director of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation. For those of you who don’t know me, I have been doing this for free every day for all of our over 20 years. I literally have not had a single day off since March 27, 2004.
I don’t often talk about myself because, quite honestly, Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation is not about me. It is about the animals for which we care. Yes, I have devoted my life to this, but the focus should always be the animals and not my personal issues or sacrifice.
I don’t normally post about the people who attack us out of ignorance, but now I feel the need to do so. Today someone commented on our post about the coyote found in the Aldi in Chicago, ‘be assured that they killed the coyote. Be very sure so I trust them with the coyote found that Aldi’s. Don’t trust these people one bit.’
She also separately posted on her page (regarding the coyote named Mercy), ‘Frightened coyote who bit a boy was certainly murdered in order to extract his brain cells to determine if he had rabies. That’s what they do and that’s exactly what they’ve done but they never make it public. Animal rights do not exist at the moment so they murder and call it euthanasia as those crazy welfareists want to twist things around in order to make violence seem acceptable. It’s called murder.’
If you know me, you know how absolutely absurd these comments are. Yet somehow we, as rehabbers, are subject to extremists on both sides that choose to create their own reality. If you are reading this, know that we did not kill Mercy and we are not killing the Aldi Coyote. If you want to post these types of comments, then you will be banned from our page because your comments are absolutely libelous, untrue and absurd.
Do you want to know why there aren’t more licensed wildlife rehabbers? This is one of the reasons.”
Posted on Facebook
Well done, you must fight disinformation at every corner.
God bless you Dawn!
I met Dawn last year when I called Flint Creek about an injured red tail hawk on 59. Dawn quickly captured and assessed the injured bird as a police officer and I watched. The bird was cared for and rehabbed at the facility for many months until release. I fully support Dawn and Flint Creek.
I am often confounded about innocent people who are forced to justify themselves because of attacks on social media. Those who attack are simply ignorant bullies with too much time on their hands. They puke up an ignorant opinions in hopes that someone with notice them. Please, turn off your social media intake. Continue to post but don’t offer an avenue for comment and simply ignore the haters. Lower your blood pressure and stress levels and consider the wretch that posts untruths. They don’t deserve a reaction.