A California wildlife officer carried out two rescues in quick succession, helping a great horned owl caught in barbed wire and a baby fox found inside an attic.<\/p>\n
The back-to-back saves, reported by FOX26<\/a>, are a reminder that wild animals often face danger at the edges of human spaces, and that quick action can make a major difference.<\/p>\n What happened?<\/p>\n The first call took California Department of Fish and Wildlife officer Molly Basurto to Fresno County, where a great horned owl was stuck in barbed wire fencing.<\/p>\n For a large bird of prey, entanglement can quickly become life-threatening, leaving the animal unable to fly, hunt, or defend itself.<\/p>\n Once the owl was freed, Basurto transported it to a permitted wildlife rehabilitation facility for care and recovery.<\/p>\n She next headed to Madera County after a baby fox was found in a building’s attic. The fox was taken to a nearby wildlife rehabilitation center for care by trained staff, with the aim of releasing it back into the wild.<\/p>\n Why does it matter?<\/p>\n Wild animals are constantly navigating fences, roads, and structures built for people, not for them.<\/p>\n When they become trapped or stranded, the outcome often depends on whether someone notices and calls for help in time.<\/p>\n Great horned owls and foxes are both predators, which means they help keep local ecosystems in balance by controlling populations of smaller animals.<\/p>\n Healthier ecosystems can support agriculture, reduce nuisance pest pressures, and help people coexist more safely with native wildlife.<\/p>\n When residents, wildlife officers, and rehabilitation professionals each do their part, animals have a much better chance of surviving encounters with human-made hazards.<\/p>\n What’s being done?<\/p>\n In both cases, the immediate response was to get the animals out of danger and into the care of rehabilitation professionals.<\/p>\n That is often the safest option for both wildlife and people, since untrained handling of injured or stressed wild animals can cause further harm.<\/p>\n Wildlife rehabilitation centers can stabilize injuries, care for young animals too vulnerable to survive on their own, and prepare them for a possible return to their habitat.<\/p>\n Get TCD’s free newsletters<\/a> for easy tips, smart advice, and a chance to earn $5,000 toward home upgrades. To see more stories like this one, change your Google preferences here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California wildlife officer carried out two rescues in quick succession, helping a great horned owl caught in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160201,160203,7,9,8,160200,160202,160205,15316,148087,160204,141781],"class_list":["post-398974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-baby-fox","tag-barbed-wire","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-molly-basurto","tag-rehabilitation-professionals","tag-wild-animals","tag-wildlife-officer","tag-wildlife-officers","tag-wildlife-rehabilitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}