It may not sound like much, but I get a little happy feeling every time we get a call from Paul “Dief” Diefenderfer asking if it’s OK to release a rehabilitated wild rescue animal at Harmony Hollow.
Aside from always being available to help a neighbor with a stranded gila monster here and there, Paul works with Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center to rehab wildlife in need and then set them free back into their natural settings.
This was a group of three and I was so excited for the release. Dief probably laughed a little on the inside because I was afraid that they’d run out and do who knows what to us. I may have even hid behind his truck. They were in no hurry to leave their cozy crates.
He said sometimes it takes a few days before they are ready to wander off on their own, after having been recovering in captivity for a while.
