Wildlife Center of Virginia Blog

The field can be fraught with a lot of emotional fatigue and burnout. For these reasons, I often find myself making the most out of every little thing that goes right, and celebrating each small victory as a success.

We’ve made a lot of progress in our four months together; we also have a long way to go. The process has been challenging, rewarding, frustrating, fun, and many other things. 

In the course of the last year, working on many projects, the Center and I made a friend in Lantz’s project superintendent Tony. 

My Year-End Memories sometimes end up focusing on my human coworkers rather than the animal patients seen in our hospital, and with good reason: the connections that are made between people at the Center, our supporters, our friends, our colleagues, and everyone else in between is what makes this place so special to so many