As soon as you walk into the Volunteers for Wildlife hospital and education center, there are mammals being fed on your left while birds on your right are being examined to see how much they have healed since being rescued. No matter which season it is or the time of the day, the phone is ringing off the hook at Volunteers for Wildlife for another native Long Island animal to be rescued. Volunteers for Wildlife, Inc. founded in 1982 was the first Wildlife Hospital on Long Island. Co-founders Sallie Rupert, Joyce DeGeorge, and Marilyn Forman first began caring for injured and orphaned wildlife out of Sallie’s garage. “These animals need care every single day of the year including holidays and including a...