They take in a lot of orphaned squirrels at City Wildlife, and if you’d like to foster some of them, they’ll give you a wooden birdhouse-looking box for your garden complete with an entire family of babies. My next door neighbor was worried I was going to bring some home with me as she’s not a fan of squirrels.

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We went to the annual open house of City Wildlife, the only organization in the District of Columbia that rescues and rehabilitates the city’s wildlife. They hold this event every winter, when there are few animals being treated at the facility, and they don’t offer tours the rest of the year because they feel their patients would be too stressed with people constantly gawking at them. This will be a very small gallery, with some pictures of past residents and other things I was able to photograph, but it was very interesting and heartening to see that they have filled the gap for a service that was sadly lacking here.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

‘Game Fish,’ Larry Fuente, 1988 (2/3), posted earlier: