Lewis County Sirens.com

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – An owl rescued from a barbed wire fence earlier today in Toledo is getting bandaged up and awaiting transport, hopefully, to a specialty clinic in Eastern Washington.

A sheriff’s deputy was dispatched this morning to an owl caught in a barbed wire fence along Kangas Road about 8 o’clock this morning, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

A citizen called 911 after seeing the young bird struggling to get loose, the sheriff’s office reported.

Sheriff’s detective Bruce Kimsey, with the help of a farmer who lives nearby, was able to extricate the owl from the wire, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

Brown said the owl was handed over to a wildlife group in Chehalis.

The owners of the group, called We are One: Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, hope to nurse it back to health so it can be returned to its own habitat as soon as possible, according to Brown.

Tammy Yuth, of We are One, said she is making arrangements to send the owl to the veterinary school at Washington State University in Pullman.

“He’ going to have to get a graft on his wing, he’s lost a lot of flesh,” Yuth said.

Yuth said he’s just a baby, born this spring.

He’s either a Barred Owl or a Spotted Owl, it’s hard to tell when they’re so young,” she said.

Yuth’s husband brought the bird to her workplace, Tumwater Veterinary Hospital, she said. He’s bandaged up and sitting in a kennel awaiting transport, she said this afternoon.

Yuth is a veterinary assistant there, but also operates a wildlife center in Chehalis, where she currently is rehabilitating numerous animals, including a baby beaver, a raccoon and variety of birds, she said.

Kimsey named the owl Orville.

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