Austin Wildlife Rescue is being rescued after a call for help on social media. The $15,000 needed to buy a new x-ray machine was raised in a matter of days.
The opossum needed surgery, but first she needed a trip to the rescue's intake location several miles away in Austin for an x-ray. A similar trip was scheduled for a turkey vulture, with a busted wing and leg.
"So our x-ray machine is pretty one of our most critical equipment that we have here at the facility. It allows us to do literally lifesaving surgeries here at our facility, because when we're doing orthopedic surgery, which is probably the most common catastrophic injury that we get on animals, we are needing to see what the placement of the pins look like once we have them situated within the bone. And currently we're not able to do that," said Maron.
An example of how expensive caring for the animals is a stack of buckets filled with animal baby formula at the center. The first load of the season cost $20,000. Another shipment will be needed later in the year for the fall baby season.
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