Helping Each Other - EmerAidVet

Wild animals do not have bank accounts, nor do they have owners with checkbooks. Conservationists, veterinarians, biologists, and rehabilitators who work with wildlife face this reality every day. We believe that each corporation has a responsibility to charitably help make the world a better place in some tangible way.

EmerAid LLC is a division of Lafeber Company. One of the ways Lafeber Company accomplishes this is through its conservation and wildlife work:

Lafeber Company offers its EmerAid products to PERMITTED wildlife rehabilitators with a 50% discount off of the veterinary price. *Valid for United States and Canada only*

In order to qualify for this program, the rehabilitator must provide the following:

A completed Wildlife Survey that can be filled out online below
Copies of Federal and/or State Wildlife Permits, scanned and emailed to wildlife@lafeber.com
Provide at least 4 short stories (a paragraph or two) within one calendar year of signing up (and 4 each year thereafter) to be used on the EmerAid website and Facebook page with photos and/or a video included
- Include location and reason/condition for admission to hospital
- Species, weight upon entry, age (baby, young adult or adult) and name of patient (if patient is named)
- Which EmerAid product(s) were used and how
- Weight (if possible) and condition when released

Additional Benefit to Rehabilitators: To earn $50 credit toward EmerAid purchases.
Details on what the rehabilitator must provide and the benefit gained:

Write a case-study style article that will be posted on EmerAid.com. It must provide the following:
- - 500 to 700 words
  - Include location and reason/condition for admission to facility
  - Include name/number/description and age of patient(s), if available
  - If available, include admission weight and weight either at the time of story submission or time of release (whichever comes first)
  - EmerAid product having been used as part of the protocol. Note in text or show in photo/video which EmerAid product was used
  - Photos of patient before and after, to be submitted separately from text, not embedded in a Word document or slide show. Photos during treatment would also be appreciated.
  - Description of feeding protocol (frequency, amount, duration EmerAid was used)
  - Description of treatment protocol (medications, fluids, etc.)
  - Link to your website and/or social media, if desired
  - Submit to EmerAidInfo@EmerAid.com
  - If you’d like to view an example, please see this article.
Benefit to Rehabilitator
- Each article will provide a credit of $50 to be applied toward future EmerAid purchases (equivalent of a 2Kg bag of EmerAid — rehab cost)

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any comments or questions at wildlife@lafeber.com

Lafeber Company is also interested in collaborating with rehabilitators wishing to conduct research projects. Please send an email to Dr. Lafeber at EmerAidInfo@EmerAid.com.

Lafeber Co. Wildlife Care Survey

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1. Check each of the following species or taxonomic groups if your rehabilitation program receives more than 5 of that species or group (any age) in a calendar year.
- Gaviiformes (loons)
- Podicipediformes (grebes)
- Pelecaniformes (pelicans, comorants)
- Procelleriformes (petrels, albatross, booby)
- Ciconiiformes (herons, egrets)
- Gruiformes (cranes)
- Sea Ducks (eiders, mergansers, goldeneyes, long-tailed ducks, scoters, smew)
- Any other ducks (e.g. mallards, teal, pintail, widgeon, wood duck, black duck, etc.)
- Falcons (Falco spp, such as pergrines, gyrfalcons, kestrals, etc.)
- Soaring hawks (Buteo or parabuteo spp. such as red-tailed, red-shouldered, broad-winged, rough-legged, Swainson's or Harris' hawk)
- Northern harrier
- Osprey
- Accipiters (Accipiter spp. such as goshawk, sharp-shinned or Cooper's hawk)
- Strigiformes (spp. such as Great Horned Owl, Barn Owl, Screech Owl)
- Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
- Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
- Cathartidae (vultures or condors)
- Corvids (ravens, crows, jays, nutcrackers)
- Gulls, terns, jaegers or skuas
- Other Charadriiformes (shorebirds not including herons or gulls)
- Other terrestrial birds: Piciformes (woodpeckers), Coraciiformes (kingfisher), etc.
- Carnivorous reptiles (snakes, bearded dragons)
- Florivorous or omniovorous reptiles (iguanas, tortoises, turtles)
- Carnivorous or Omnivorous mammals (ferrets, shrews, raccoons, opossums, rats)
- Bats (insectivores and frugivores)
- Herbivorous mammals (rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas)
- Marine mammals (seals, whales, sea lions, dolphins, polar bears)
If there are other species that are not listed above, but you see more than 5 individuals in a given year, please list them below:
2. From the context of stabilizing critical patients, what are the three most problematic species that you receive?
3. From the context of getting newly admitted patients to spontaneously feed, what are the most problematic species you treat?
4. Thinking only of the species marked in question 1, check off the injury category that best describes the injuries commonly seen in these patients.
- Vehicular trauma (auto, boat, airplane, train)
- Other collision trauma (window, building, wire)
- Electrocution
- Fishing tackle entanglement or ingestion
- Lead intoxication (ingested lead shot or sinkers)
- Other foreign body ingestion (e.g. trash)
- Disease
- Failure to thrive (limited to juvenile or immature birds that are emaciated for reasons other than obvious trauma or disease)
- Leg-hold trap
- Oil spill
- Harmful algal bloom (HAB)
- Other: (please list below)
5. Does your facility typically respond to at least one high-caseload event (e.g. oil spill, harmful agal bloom, mass beaching, disease outbreak) on an annual basis?
- Yes
- No
6. Thinking only of the species marked in question 1, check off each presentation description that is commonly seen (e.g. seen in 50% or more of admitted individuals)
- Thin or emaciated
- Wounds
- Fractures
- Bumblefoot
- Proliferative lesions of the skin, oral cavity, eyes or cloaca (e.g. pox)
- Diptheritic lesions of the oral cavity or crop (e.g. trichomoniasis)
- Gastrointestinal parasites
- CNS signs (ataxia, dizziness, blindness (with intact eyes), seizures, convulsions, circling or profound depression, unconscious)
- Hematochezia (fresh blood in droppings)
- Regurgitation or vomiting (except for normal casting)
- Melena (scant, black tarry droppings suggestive of digested blood)
- Respiratory signs (coughing, congestion, bloody discharge from trachea or nares)
7. Please mark all the applicable routes or techniques that your rehabilitation center uses first for rehydrating and refeeding wildlife patients.
- Subcutaneous fluids
Check all that apply
- LRS
- Normosol
- Diluted dextrose
- Other
- Intraveneous fluids
Check all that apply
- Whole blood
- Plasma
- Hetastarch
- LRS
- Normosol
- Intraosseous fluids
Check all that apply
- Whole Blood
- Plasma
- Hetastarch
- LRS
- Normasol
- Gavage (tube) feeding
Check all that apply
- LRS
- Normosol
- Diluted dextrose
- Commercial product
- Home-made
- Other
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8. If you tube or assist-feed birds or other animals, please provide the following details about the product(s) you're using:
i) Describe the products(s) or tube-feeding recipe that you're using. If you are using a home-made formula, please share the ingredients and approximate proportions.
ii) Are you able to maintain or increase body weight with your gavage feeding formula for patients that are not self-feeding?
- Frequently
- Sometimes
- Never
- Not sure
(Feel free to provide other comments on weight maintenance below:)
iii) When you decide to gavage feed, what frequency do you tube feed and how do you determine this?
9. If you're using a tube-feeding diet, what are the top 3 benefits you see from its use?
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10. What are the top 3 frustrations you have with its use?
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11. If you have specifically used EmerAid Exotic Carnivore, Omnivore or Herbivore already, please let us know what your general impressions of the product have been:
i) Is it mixing and delivering well through your equipment?
- Yes
- No
Comments
ii) Has your staff commented on this product?
- Yes
- No
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iii) Have you noticed any significant changes in fecal character or digestion rates with use of this product?
- Yes
- No
Please describe changes in fecal characteristics:
vi) Please comment on any favorable or unfavorable responses in your patients:
12. We would like to develop a better understanding of the variety of stabilization and refeeding protocols used in the treatment of wildlife. Please share with us your preferred protocol for accomplishing this. We understand that this can vary considerably from species to species and even case to case. If it is easier, you can attach written protocols below, call us to describe it, or jot down a flowchart or outline below. We are primarily interested in the events that make up the first few days of a patient's transition into captivity (e.g. the stabilization period).
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13. Are there any other questions that we should be asking or any other comments you would like to contribute?
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