AR-News: (US MD) Edgewood Woman's Animal Care Could Face Shutdown

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New Neighbors Complain About Animal Noise
POSTED: 5:29 pm EDT June 30,  2004
EDGEWOOD, Md. -- A  Harford County woman claims to have spent her life 
working with state and local  agencies to help save wounded or sick animals. Now she 
claims she is being  forced to get rid of the animals she's trying to save, 
WBAL-TV 11 News reporter  Jennifer Franciotti reported.  

Betty Ack is taking care of some baby possums  until they can be released 
back into the wild. Ack, a certified wildlife  rehabilitator, has helped sick or 
injured animals in her Edgewood back yard for  more than 20 years, answering 
40 to 50 calls a day from agencies like the state  police and the Harford 
County Sheriff's Office.  
"I'll take in anything that's injured, anything at all," Ack said.      
She's not kidding. Baby bunnies, groundhogs, pigeons, and a sparrow  covered 
in oil all needed help to survive.  
On Wednesday, she took in an inured box turtle.
 
Outside her little animal hospital, ducks and other  waterfowl gather. They 
are at the center of a dispute that's drawn the attention  of Harford County 
Planning and Zoning, and now, Ack said she has been told to  get rid of all the 
animals.  

"If I can't do it in there, I can't do my  wildlife rehabilitation," Ack 
said.  
What used to be hundreds of acres of woods behind her house is now a new  
housing development, and neighbors said the noise is too much.


full  story:
_http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3478899/detail.html_ 
(http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3478899/detail.html)  



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