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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

"Beverly Hills Vet" television series by Animal Planet on Discovery - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates

"Beverly Hills Vet" was a television series made by Animal Planet on the Discovery channel. This episode "Julianne's Choice" was from 2003. Mary Cummins played herself. The star and host is Katrina Warren a veterinarian from Australia. In this jepisode a kind man finds an orphaned baby squirrel, brings it to Mary Cummins who raises it for release back into the wild.

Video will be posted later. Here are some stills.

Mary Cummins Animal Planet Katrina Warren Animal Planet Discovery Channel television series wildlife rehabilitation squirrel rescue Los Angeles, California

* The video is not 100% what actually happened. Some scenes had to be rearranged due to time constraints. Some were reenacted for the same reasons. Sound effects were added in some of the edited parts.

LOS ANGELES, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In Animal Planet's new series BEVERLY
HILLS VET, Katrina Warren, the dynamic Australian veterinarian and expert in
animal behavior, lands in Beverly Hills to take viewers on a whirlwind trip
around Los Angeles where she prescribes cures for animals with unimaginable
oddities and meets their equally eccentric families. The biggest challenge
Katrina faces is figuring out if some pets' real problem is the one they can't
shake ... their owners. Viewers learn how Katrina Warren diagnoses these
animal anomalies and if their commanders will obey when she comes to the L.A.
area's rescue in the world premiere of BEVERLY HILLS VET on September 2, 2003
from 8-9 p.m. (ET).

Throughout the series' episodes, Katrina analyzes a parrot that hates his
new owner so much that he uses four-letter words to tell her so and an alpaca
that can't seem to stop banging his head on the wall. She treats "Bitey," the
snake, who lives up to his name and the pampering couple living with "Ribbet,"
the 200-pound pig that needs to visit "Little Orphan Hammies," his favorite
pig camp more often to help him leave is brutish home behavior behind.
Katrina even uses hidden video to spy on a schnauzer that raids the
refrigerator when no ones around to catch him in the act!

Soon after her arrival in California, Katrina is not only faced with the
difficulties of moving to a new place with quite different and unusual people,
but is also confronted with correcting the weird behaviors of exotic pets
she's never seen in her Australian homeland. Katrina is so determined to
offer owners every possible solution to their pet's problems that she ends up
making many human friends along the way. She finds specialists across Los
Angeles, who lend their advice to help her make the best diagnosis. For
example, she meets Ian, the herpetologist who really knows his way around a
snake; and Susie, the pig expert from "Little Orphan Hammies" -- where pigs
without a home find refuge. All in all, Katrina's just the woman to make
people and their pets happier together.

BEVERLY HILLS VET is produced for Animal Planet by Fox TV Studios in
association with Painless Productions. For Fox TV Studios, David Martin is
executive producer. For Painless Productions, Jim Casey and Joe Carolei are
executive producers, Katrina Warren is co-executive producer and Jacqueline
Bender is supervising producer. For Animal Planet, Jeanie Vink is executive
producer and Kelly Lueschow is associate producer.

Animal Planet, available in more than 81 million homes nationwide, is the
only television network dedicated exclusively to the connection between humans
and animals. The network's original programming brings together people of all
ages by tapping into a fundamental fascination with animals and providing an
entertaining mix of programming including original movies, adventure series,
sports, drama and sitcoms. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery
Communications, Inc., operates and manages the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal
Planet, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids, and a
family of newer, targeted channels. The unit also distributes BBC America.
Visit Animal Planet on the Web by going to www.discovery.com and clicking on
Animal Planet.

SOURCE Animal Planet

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate Services has been in real estate since 1983, over 35 years. She is licensed by the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Mary Cummins was an agent and broker licensed with the California Department of Real Estate selling residential income, commercial buildings, raw land and homes for Merrill Lynch Realty in Beverly Hills and Westside Properties in Los Angeles before concentrating on appraisals. Mary Cummins currently provides real estate appraisals, expert witness testimony, historical research, legal real estate research for mortgage brokers, banks, lawyers, factors, insurance companies, financial consultants and private individuals. Mary Cummins was born and raised in Southern California. Cummins attended Beverly Hills Good Shepherd Catholic School and Beverly Hills High School. Besides being on the Dean's list, Mary Cummins was a top ten national swimmer and competed on the men's water polo team. Mary Cummins began college at the age of 15 attending the University of Southern California on scholarship, majoring in Psychology/Sociology. http://www.animaladvocates.us http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Cute raccoons enjoying enrichment at Animal Advocates - Mary Cummins

Raccoons enjoying enrichment at Animal Advocates.

Raccoon enrichment. Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Monday, September 28, 2015

Emu rescue by Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates

Emu rescue by Mary Cummins of Animal Advocate

Published by Mary Cummins · September 10, 2014 at 10:59am

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An emu ranch closed down and one emu escaped. He made his way to the neighbor's house on a lake and lived there for a few months. Then the HOA told them they could not have an emu and had to get rid of it.

December 15th they called me. I only handle wildlife so I contacted Gentle Barn, Animal Acres but no response. Frank Allen of Animal Acres did give me some emu handling tips. I decided to place ads for him on Petfinder, AdoptAPet, Craigslist and Facebook. I offered to transport if someone would adopt him for free. December 16th a few people responded to the ad. I chose the person who already had a female emu and emu experience. Thanks to everyone else who offered him a home.

I'd assumed that I could get the emu to sit in a large crate in my PT Cruiser (don't laugh). Seems you must transport them in a trailer or truck with sides and top. I called all over to rent a horse trailer but couldn't find anyone with a small horse trailer. The adopters then said that they will transport him in their truck. We agreed to transport him December 19 meeting at a truck stop in Barstow at 1 p.m.

Morning of December 19 was of course a huge rain storm. I left at 9:15 a.m. to get there by 1. Thank god I did. I had my wipers on high almost the entire way. My car hydroplaned quite a few times. I could only drive in the middle lane of the 10 freeway because the side lanes were flooded. As I approached the 60 a police car slowed traffic and closed that freeway completely because of accidents.

I continued on in the heavy rain. Even with the wipers on high I could barely see. I was white knuckling my steering wheel while leaning forward and opening my eyes as wide as possible to try to see better. It didn't help. I just ended up with dry eyes and a neck ache.

When I got to the 15 there were multiple car collisions littered on both side of the highway. I must have seen at least 50 tow trucks that day. There were 4x4, SUV and trucks in those accidents. I was driving a PT Cruiser with a lowered sport package and racing wheels, not what you want to drive in a rain storm.

By the time I neared Barstow the rain stopped and a rainbow appeared. I was so glad we would be loading the emu in dry weather. I pulled into the truck stop where we were supposed to meet at 12:30. I called everyone. They would all be late because of the weather.

The adopters truck wouldn't start that morning so they had to jerry rig someone else's truck with a gate, sides and a roof. The people who owned the house where the emu was staying arrived at 1:30. We had fun chatting and joking around until 3:30 when the adopters showed up. By then it was sprinkling and windy. We drove to pick up the emu as a motorcade.

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As soon as we arrived at their house the emu came towards us to say "hello." The adopter went up and hugged the emu. Now we weren't quite sure the emu was a male or female as none of us are emu experts. I think the emu smelled the female emu on the adopters shirt because he soon showed us he was definitely a male. He tried to make some moves on the adopter.

Now to try to get the emu in the truck. We had no ramp so we'd have to lift him into the truck. Mind you he's 6' tall and weighs 150 lbs. Emus also have sharp claws on their feet. In fact a few weeks earlier a six foot side winder bit the emu on the leg. Then the emu killed it with his feet. His leg swelled a little and he was under the weather for half a day but he was fine. The vet they called said emus aren't too badly affected by venomous snake bites.

They also have sharp scales on their legs which they can open at will and cut you like multiple knives. We decided to wrap his legs in a towel I'd brought then lift him into the truck. The adopter, his daughter and I lifted him into the truck sideways. Unfortunately the towel didn't cover all of his legs and the scales really cut the adopter's thumb. There was blood all over his bumper. He wrapped his thumb and applied pressure but it kept bleeding.

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After securing the emu in the truck with all the gates it was time to go to his new home. The old owner gave us some cookies and cake for the road. The first few miles the emu was sticking his head out, slipping, butt in the air, feet in the air, feathers in the air. He finally calmed down when we hit the freeway. Then it started to rain, and rain, and rain.

We took the 15 freeway south but then had to take a two lane highway all the way to Canyon Country. There was a lot of mud, some rocks and tons of water. Every time we'd hit a dip we'd get sprayed with muddy water from the other cars. One time a semi-truck hit a flooded muddy dip and literally sprayed a tsunami of solid mud over both the truck and my car. Even with my wipers on high it took six wipes to get the mud off so I could just barely see. I was going 50 at the time, driving blind.

We finally made it to the 14 and could see a ton of flashing lights ahead across the entire freeway. The police shut down the 14 freeway and rerouted us because of yet another multiple car collision. A few miles later we were finally able to get on the 14 with no traffic. After another half an hour or so we were at the emu's new home. Fortunately the rain trickled down to a light shower.

The emu's new home is a ranch mansion! As soon as we pulled into the automatic gates the female emu came up to us. She was making her sex calls and getting in the position. She let us pet her.

By now her new friend was really motion sick. He was just sitting in the truck with a green look on his face. We had to help him out of the truck. Then he took a big dump then stumbled away. The new adopter went up to him and held him steady while he walked. It really looked like someone walking a drunk out of a bar. They walked around a bit then took him to see the female. Even though he was in the mood when we left he was too motion sick to even say "hello" to her. They did do a group hug at least. He finally sat down for 20 minutes or so. The female came over and checked him out.

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His new owner was giving me some produce from his other truck for my animals. I was filling up my bags with produce when the male emu came to investigate. He had to look in the bags. I was so glad he was feeling better. We then said our goodbyes and I drove home. I drove over 300 miles that day because of the closed freeways.

Unfortunately when I got home my office was flooded. I guess it rained hard here at home as well. The roof leaked at the sky light right on top of my desk. The only leak in the house would be on top of my iMac, laptop, camera chargers, wireless network. I took apart my laptop and chargers to dry. The laptop is working, will have to take the iMac to the shop.

Video of the first time the guy meets the emu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOVBDN9LRmQ

Video of the guy hugging the emu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w19Jm-sdozQ

Full photo album of the rescue
https://www.facebook.com/marycummins/media_set?set=a.10150103610676212.315091.733516211&type=3

Mary Cummins

Monday, July 20, 2015

Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates rescues coyotes in Los Angeles, California

Animal Advocates, Mary Cummins is licensed, permitted to rescue coyotes in Los Angeles, California

Mary Cummins 17 Jan 2010 23:49 GMT

Animal Advocates has been rescuing ill, injured and orphaned coyotes in the Los Angeles area of California. We also provide humane coyote control and speak to groups about dealing with coyote issues. We recently received our permit to permanently rehabilitate coyotes at our own facility.
Coyotes in Los Angeles, California weighs 20-35 pounds and stand 23 to 26 inches at the shoulder. The coyote looks similar to a smaller tan colored shepherd-type dog with long pointed muzzle, large ears, long legs and a bushy tail.

  Coyotes, whose natural habitat is the Los Angeles basin, have adjusted to their shrinking habitat by living closer to humans, sometimes in residential areas, parks and on the landscaped areas of the freeway system.

Because coyotes are now habituating closer to humans, they suffer the effects of our existence. They are hit by cars or are poisoned from eating poisoned ground squirrels and rats. They also succumb to sarcoptic mange from mites.

If you find ill, injured or orphaned wildlife, contact us or visit our website so we can help you or refer you to someone who can.

Animal Advocates is a non-profit corporation recognized by the IRS. We operate on donations from the public. We are licensed by the California Department of Fish & Game to rescue ill, injured and orphaned wildlife for release back to the wild. We rescue coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, foxes, opossums, skunks, squirrels, moles, voles, gophers, bats and more.

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Friday, July 3, 2015

Baby ground squirrel being rehabber in Los Angeles, California by Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates

This very tiny baby who just barely has his teeth tried to make a break for it. He is now in the Fort Knox of enclosures which is all metal. He's an extremely small runt of the litter who can't even sit up. I separated him because his siblings were too rough with him. I've since put him back in with his siblings and am watching them carefully.

Animal Advocates, Mary Cummins, baby ground squirrel, Los Angeles, California


	Animal Advocates, Mary Cummins, baby ground squirrel, Los Angeles, California

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Feeding baby wood rat - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates

Mary Cummins feeding a baby wood rat at Animal Advocates in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Monday, March 9, 2015

Sam Simon passed away yesterday at his home, June 6, 1955 - March 8, 2015

Sam Simon, Sam Simon Foundation, Los Angeles, California, Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates, 1955-2015

Sam Simon "(June 6, 1955 - March 8, 2015) was an American director, producer, writer, boxing manager and philanthropist. While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. He submitted a spec script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced, and later became the series' showrunner. Over the next few years, Simon wrote and produced for Cheers, It's Garry Shandling's Show and other programs, as well as writing the 1991 film The Super."

Sam grew up in Beverly Hills and went to Beverly Hills High School. He is ten years older than me so he was the class of 1973. I was 1983. Below are some pics from the yearbook and alumni guide. He was on the wrestling and football teams and excelled in both. Father Arthur Sheldon Simon, mother Joan Feld, sister Sydney Eve Simon, ex-wives Jennifer Tilly, Jami Michelle Ferrell.

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Monday, March 2, 2015

Donate to Baby Warm for an incubator for Animal Advocates - Mary Cummins, Los Angeles

Baby Warm, incubator, Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates, donate, Los Angeles, California

Like so many rehabbers, Mary started helping animals when she couldn't find anybody to help some orphaned babies. She now cares for everything from squirrels, raccoons, opossums, voles, moles, gophers, birds to larger animals like bobcats, coyotes and the occasional fox. Her incubator will be used for tiny orphaned babies - skunks, raccoons, opossums and bats. In between caring for animals, Mary also answers wildlife questions from around the world and does all she can to share her passion for wildlife with animal lovers everywhere.

Donate here!

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Today is squirrel appreciation day. Animal Advocates Mary Cummins in Los Angeles, California

Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day! Share these cute squirrel photos and ask your groups to "like" Animal Advocates so we can rescue more squirrels. Thanks!