Salem Wildlife Rescue Is Leaving, Owner Says Living In Massachusetts Is Too Expensive

WBZ NewsRadio's James Rojas reports. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 3 (00:00):
Benny.

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The bunny wasn't exactly the clientele that Jess Reese will
normally work with.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
The Salem police called me saying they found a domestic
bunny dumped in a park eating with the wild rabbits.
I took him in as a favor to bring him
to the shelter. The next day, he didn't make it
to the shelter.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I kept him.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
As the owner of Salem Wildlife Rescue. She's been rehabilitating
wild animals over the past four years, but come September,
she's packing up her belongings and Benny and her cats
and moving to North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Costs of living have been going up like crazy. It's
I have to close down everything I've built.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
She is concerned about how her absence will add to
the already limited number of people in her field.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I know there's not a lot of us, so who's
going to fill that gap?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Meanwhile, Jess we'll continue her animal rehab work in North
Carolina in Salem. James Rojas w b Z, Boston's news
radio