LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5)—The non-profit has been plagued by a growing number of ducks dumped at the Las Vegas Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary.
Having all your ducks in a row is important to run a sanctuary.
However, Jennifer Langford, the executive director of Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary, said lately, the public has been making things difficult.
“I get asked a lot to take in ducks, geese, chickens and right now my numbers are too high where I cant take any in,” Langford said.
Many times, Langford shared that she is forced to take in birds that have been dumped on her.
Langford showed FOX5 a few of the ducks that were dumped over the fence.
In one instance, Langford told a woman she could not accept the duck, but she left it at the gate and drove off.
While others dropped three ducks over the sanctuary’s fence.
“It’s right off the road, so they kind of toss them over,” Langford explained.
Langford tells FOX5 that her heart wants to take in more animals but she can’t.
If this trend of dumping ducks continues, she is worried that if a sick duck is added to the mix, it could wipe out her whole bird population.
“If the bird flu comes in every bird on property would have to be put down we don’t want that disease,” Langford shared.
When the birds are already dumped, it is very difficult to follow the sanctuary’s standard protocol of quarantining each animal for 30 days.
“By the time we come in the morning, they will be in the pond,” explained Langford.
Recently, Lanford said they had a bunch of chickens dumped on their property so she needed to build another coop which cost the non-profit an extra $1,000.
Lanford said she gets calls daily about people wanting to surrender ducks and chickens.
She wants parents to be mindful when giving aby birds or ducks as pets to their children.
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