[Animals] Think your job is tough? Why Central Pa. woman will 'sacrifice everything' for the animals

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Animal chaos swirled around her, once more.

Tracie Young talked on the phone with one hand and rehabbed a bird's bad foot with the other.

The microwave was beeping, the baby foxes were whining and the "road boss" duck quacked continuously while waddling between legs.

One volunteer chopped vegetables, another dissected mice.

Young put down her phone just long enough for a sip of coffee. She never stopped gently pulling and pushing the recovering right leg of a female kestrel, the tiny raptor weighing only five or six ounces.

"There's a rabbit coming in, hit by a car," she said to her pair of volunteers, fearing the worst.

A fox, found on the side of the road with a head injury, was on its way, too. 

Her phone buzzed every five or 10 minutes with a request.

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