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PAWS Wildlife Center
Expanding to meet the needs of wild animals
in our region.
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care for wild animals. Hallways and doors are extra wide to allow for movement of staff, equipment, and patients. The HVAC system is engineered to minimize air exchange between rooms to reduce the risk of infection and disease. Interior windows allow staff to discreetly observe wild patients without entering rooms to disturb them. Large surgery and treatment rooms allow staff to move easily around animals and also facilitate veterinary students to assist, learn from, and perform their own procedures while in training at PAWS.
In addition to dramatically increasing the square footage of animal care areas, like the surgery room and radiology room, the newly-designed Wildlife Center also introduces spaces that do not exist in the current Lynnwood facility, including: a wildlife waiting area where patients can settle before their first examination, an isolation room to provide flexible care space, an intensive care unit where sensitive patients can be closely monitored, and a treatment room where patients will receive expert care.
Once patients are stabilized and recovering, the PAWS wildlife team turns their focus to preparing the animals to return to the wild. Moving from a 3.5-acre facility in Lynnwood to a 25-acre site has allowed PAWS to construct new types of enclosures based on the latest innovations in the field of wildlife rehabilitation. New custom-built recovery habitats on this remote property will reduce visual and auditory stress for animals, better support their changing needs while rehabilitating, and ultimately lead to improved outcomes, decreasing the time that animals need to spend at the PAWS Wildlife Center before they are released.
Construction of the remaining components of the new campus—the Wildlife Care Unit and the Outdoor Aquatics Complex—is already underway!
If you have questions or would like to learn more, please email: Snohomish@paws.org
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