Care of Exotics

WSU vets ask public to call a wildlife rehabilitator before rescuing wildlife.

Students will be on-call 24/7 to provide initial care to injured or orphaned wildlife in Eastern Washington.

Paula Buchert is confident that radiation treatment at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital extended the life of one of her best friends—an Angora rabbit, named Zsa Zsa.

Dr. Winter works closely with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s exotics team.

WSU is among the only facilities in the Northwest to offer radiation therapy for pets.

It is easy to mistake healthy wildlife for one that may be orphaned or injured. The only time you should intervene with a wild animal is if it is clearly sick or injured, or if you are certain the parent is dead. What I should do when I come across injured or possibly abandoned wildlife? […]

It is easy to mistake a healthy baby for one that may be orphaned or injured.

A piece of trash stuck on a barbed wire fence caught Bob Stuekle’s eye on an August harvest morning as he made his way to his combine off Clear Creek Road near Colfax. “I thought it was a plastic bag,” Stueckle said. “Then we drove over and found the bird caught and hanging on the […]

Takihin is just one of roughly 500 of her species alive.

Idaho documented its first case of a fatal viral disease in wild rabbits.