Some people ask, why don't you let nature take it's course? My answer is that most of the injuries are caused by man-made objects or pets, and they are not natural.

Because of my job, people would bring a wild animal to me. I was always an outdoor person, and a couple of gentlemen at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources encouraged me to get my first permit to handle wildlife. I did it thinking I would handle a couple of birds a year.

We are not funded by the government.

We did not contain their perimeter people and we put them on the line too many times.

There is just a huge, long list of people who have lived with this problem here.

People remember stories, not facts.