In other cases, the NTWC employee initially determines whether a veterinarian is required to treat extensive injuries. If no one is needed, a custom care plan for the animal's stay is created in the middle. Hamlin says that the average time spent at NTWC is up to a few months.
“We have a lot of time to heal them when it comes to an injury that they can heal from, but usually we can determine it pretty quickly if they can survive them Must go to one of our satellite facilities so that you do not take a cage for our fast healings. “
One of the most remarkable animals in the center was the camera-friendly ambassador Coconut, the White Opossum until a few months ago. The leukist (white, but not in pigmentation as in albinism) Opossum was published in Morning News Programs and celebrated his second birthday with Vector Brewing as an ambassador. Tragically, he died of the disease about spring, but has found a worthy successor in Turnip, a white opossum.
According to Hamlin, one of the most difficult days for employees came after a violent day of commemoration overloaded the center with almost 50 animals in two days. In these cases, she says, the organization is forced to conclude after income.
“I think the storm was May 25th,” she says. “The next day we had 48 animals into play. Many of them were critically injured, and we all looked at how it is much emotional, and that is physically a lot because we worked in the mud, we work on our feet. So we waited about two days and then we took a day off.”
One day when Hamlin certainly did not want to take off, came in August when the organization achieved its donation goal for a new facility with more than a month.
The situation of the center had spread far and wide on social media when Hamlin took place at FOX 4 and fundraising campaigns. Nevertheless, she had not expected to increase the funds in such a short time.
“Like on the first day when we collected $ 15,000 and it went from me, I was excited every time there was a donation. I would call someone or write and say:” Someone just donated $ 500 “, and then it just went on,” she says. “And I said: 'Okay, I can't keep calling every time we get a donation.”
The center is currently in the process of completing loan papers for a new institution that is not extremely not in residents. Windows has to be renewed, converted housings and data protection fences have to be installed, which is why it plans to support mini donation actions for individual projects.
The future of NTWC now looks much safer than a few months ago. It is a crucial turn for Hamlin who has cystic fibrosis and counts as well as the animals themselves as the animals themselves.
“All my life I never had the feeling of doing something that was useful or effective,” says Hamlin. “And then I started to rehabilitate wild animals. I found my purpose, I found my passion. And when I die at the age of 37, this is my legacy. I leave it behind and I take it easy at all, it is a really big deal at all. And not everyone has the privilege and luxury to live something that they passionately passionately left passionately.”