Non profits that know a soft touch when they see one

Lately, my e-mail box has been filling up with opportunities to make last-minute tax deductions and save the oceans, a small African community, a polar bear, a trout or to adopt an octopus.

Good causes all. However, one that I haven't heard from and will probably send a few more $$ to is the Sarvey Wildlife Rescue Center. These guys and gals take care of the animals and wild things that come into contact with us, our cars, our pets and our developments, and always come out the worst of it.

They used to have a guy named Bob who went around in a rescue van to pick up raccoons, stray opossums, fox litters et al, anything that had been displaced around the Federal Way area. So, if you have some spare change you haven't thrown in the red kettle yet, consider the critters.

Photo courtesy of the Sarvey Wildlife Rescue Center.