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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Julie Reel of the Wildlife Center of Virginia presented a talk at the library on Friday, July 11 for the summer reading program. She began by explaining to the crowd of close to 80, including many preschoolers, that she works at a special place that cares for wild animals when they are hurt or abandoned.
Animals come from all over Virginia and even surrounding states and are treated with the intention of being returned to the wild. Sometimes the animal’s injuries are so severe they cannot survive in the wild and so remain at the center where people can learn from them.
From the beginning Julie engaged the audience by asking if anyone did not like snakes. She proceeded to pull a three-foot Florida King snake from a bag. As it wrapped around her hand and i up her arm she insisted he ; was not only friendly, but valt ued for his appetite for J rodents. Not an eye left her ■ hand.
She answered questions about reticulated pythons, poisonous snakes, and she told a story about a snake brought into the Wildlife Center that had swallowed a golf ball. She cautioned children about removing turtles from the road and bringing them home, because often these turtles
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