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WHERE THE
wild things are SALTHAVEN OFFERS HOPE AND HEALING By Janis Wallace ABOVE Brian Salt started Salthaven on a smaller property near London and has expanded to two locations to give rescued wildlife a fresh start.
52 Lifestyle July/August 2021
When you get right down to it, wildlife and people are not so different. We all heal better, faster when our mental health is healthy. We thrive when given good care. Those elements make Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre a resounding success – for animals and people. With one location outside Strathroy, Ontario and another near Regina, Saskatoon, Brian Salt’s mission to heal, release and free is making the world a better place one injured or ill animal at a time. The centre’s name indicates its two-fold purpose: to
save animals and teach people. The education starts with what he calls the apple core effect: You toss an apple core to the side of the road, thinking it’s organic, can be eaten by wildlife. But it draws them close to the road at great risk. Better to compost the core at home. The second lesson is feeding wildlife. No bread for waterfowl for example. Autopsies show geese and ducks have died of emaciation with a full stomach – full of indigestible bread. Another lesson: put yogurt and peanut butter jars in the blue box, well rinsed
