(bright music) - Hi, I'm Karen Kalunian, and today we're gonna talk about the mission of Sweet Binks.

(bright music) Hi everyone.

Today we're here with Pam Hood from Sweet Binks.

She's done some amazing work out here, and she's gonna talk to us first a little bit about the mission that you have, Pam.

I know that you've transitioned a little bit, but you've been around for a long time.

So give us a little bit of the history of Sweet Binks.

- Well, I've been doing animal rescue for 20 years, and most of it was domestic rabbit rescue and farm animal rescue for about 17 years.

- We all know about the bunny.

- Yeah.

About six years ago I transitioned to wildlife rehabilitation, and I'm very excited and it's where I'm supposed to be.

I'm doing what I've been meant to do.

So, as a natural progression, I'm getting more involved with birds, birds of prey.

I do fawn rehab, I do skunks.

Those are kind of my sole focuses now.

- What you're sort of honing in on - - Exactly.

- is that I know that you have several birds here on the property now that you're working with.

So you think you're gonna just stick with this at this point and move towards birds all the way?

- I think it's an organic kind of natural process, and I've just, you know, I've learned how to rehab everything that comes through the door.

You know, from squirrels to bunnies to chipmunks to everything... - Skunks.

- I had a tree frog come in a couple weeks ago.

But what I'm leaning towards is strictly birds, birds of prey.

I will continue rehabbing fawns as I'm the state's only fawn rehabber this year, and I'm maxed out on my fawns.

But I do enjoy doing the fawn rehab and it's a good environment to do fawn rehab here.

And I do love skunks.

I will rehab baby orphan skunks.

I do love them.

- And you tell people that and they just say, "Okay."

- Yeah.

- I love skunks.

- They just make me happy.

- Well, I appreciate everything that you're doing here for the wildlife, and being a rehabber here in Rhode Island, which is totally amazing.

And we're gonna take a look around your property and hopefully show - - Great!

- some of the animals that you're working with.

- Absolutely.

- Thank you so much for having us, Pam.

- Thank you.

- [Karen] To watch more videos like this, visit ripbs.org/animal talk.

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