Debbie Sykes

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Animal Training Academy: Making Ripples · Shifting Perspectives in Wildlife Rehabilitation with Debbie Sykes [Episode 73] · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Oh my gosh.

It reminds me, there was one time we used to do programs at, we have this place called Opryland Hotel in Nashville, where people would just, it's an indoor nursery, just many different

spaces in the hotel and it's huge but people would come to do a sierra wildlife programs and we did a possum one and this guy came up and immediately like showed us a picture of his on his phone of him like holding a possum he had i can't remember if he like shot it or just caught it but it was by the tail and thank goodness amanda was there because she was like oh

that possum is huge.

You're right.

Instead of me, who definitely, I don't think I saved face when this man was showing me this picture.

But she was able to connect with him.

He stayed for the whole show, watched the possum.

And what a much better experience than if I would have been like, why would you do that?

You know, kind of shove my trauma onto him.

He may not have stayed and then left and not been connected with the possum.

Oh, quite a few, I would say.

So one of the... There's a few big ones.

So of course, if you can't mow at the highest setting, we always talk about how it's also better for grass to mow at the highest setting as well.

And so it keeps it healthier longer, but then...

A few other things.

So we would do in the fall, we'd have a big leave your leaves campaign.

And that was about giving people the permission to just be lazy and not break up their leaves if that's what they needed.

And so we had a sign that they could get where we talk about like leaving my leaves for wildlife.

Or if that's not something, you know, you have an HOA and you have to do that, just raking it up to a couple different piles.

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