My rabies shots were pretty easy, as intradermal preventative shots in the arm rather than intramuscular shots at some random bite location. I barely felt them, and they just felt like mosquito bites for a while afterwards.

You’ll need to find who your local wildlife rescue is and see when they start taking volunteer applications. I think my group starts taking applications in January. Baby season starts in April, so they’re likely going to want to be staffed by then, as it’s the busiest time of year if they do mammals and songbirds. Different places can choose what they want to rehab. Some only do birds or bunnies, some only do things like bats. We had a brief interview with one of the heads to see if we were a good fit, and we had to do a state background check like you would for employment and a child abuse type background check since we have an education center that has children on site. That kind of thing is probably going to differ from center to center based on what services they provide the public.

Volunteers don’t typically need any experience, and the only thing I had to buy was leather work gloves from the farm supply store. The main thing in the interview was do you think you can handle basic animal mess and will you show up when you say you will.

I’m glad you’re getting happiness from the posts here. We live in a world of such natural beauty and wonder, I just want people to appreciate it, especially the owlish side of things, as that is often hidden from us humans.