Roanoke wildlife center temporarily halts accepting new animals
ROANOKE, Va. โ A Roanoke wildlife center is not be accepting new animals for a few days, although it could be longer than that. The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center announced on Saturday afternoon that it would, โpause intaking new patients for a few days, perhaps even beyond that.โThe organization cited a few reasons for what it called a โdifficult decisionโ:Working with a skeleton crewSeeing more animals than the previous yearThe strain of the coronavirus pandemic on the centerโs resourcesOngoing lawsuits preventing the center from having suitable caging to quicken our turnaround time for patientsโ... in blunt honesty, we are all killing ourselves trying to save everything. We are all completely overwhelmed both each individually and as an organization,โ the center posted to Facebook. While no new animals will be admitted, animals already in the centerโs care will continue to be treated. โWeโre sick to our stomachs that we even had to consider doing this โ this is the first time in our history that weโve had to do something like this and we feel ashamed.โ