Despite giving every critter that I receive the best care and feeding I have available, sometimes my efforts do not result in the animal returning to the wild. Part of me has accepted that reality. Every once in a while when I lose one I cannot apply acceptance, and it hurts. That was the case […]
This year has been a crazy newborn season. I have been answering forty or more calls every day. A couple days ago I hit a new high; I responded to sixty-three calls in one day. Needless to say, these calls take an enormous amount of my time and energy. Most of them concern one subject; […]
About a week and a half ago, I received a call that a family had discovered a baby owl under a trampoline when they were mowing lawn. All fuzz, the little guy was the size of tennis ball. He has now grown to be the size of a baseball. The feathers are coming in on […]
I could have taken in twenty baby raccoons today, and that doesn’t include yesterday and the day before that, etc., etc. In one sad situation, mom fell out of the tree and died, leaving five little ones peeking out of the hole where they lived. The ones I have are so cute and doing very […]
We are in the midst of Mother Nature’s baby season, and, let me tell you, it is busy. A couple weeks ago, I picked up six baby Starlings, who the rescuer thought were baby Robins. They do look alike. They had to be fed every half-hour to forty-five minutes, and they loudly let me know […]
Sharon passed away a year ago Sunday. In her honor, Patti Stangel released a beautiful great-horned owl back into the wild Sunday night at a location near our home. We couldn’t release the owl in our woods because we do not have many trees left due to the tornado. I have been helping Patti by […]
Right now every day I am getting an increasing number of calls on baby song birds. I tell callers the most important action to take is to keep the babies warm. You can do that by filling a pop bottle with warm water or taking a hand warmer and putting it under the container in […]
Baby Huey, my great horned owl who came to me the size of a cantaloupe with a bunch of fuzz, is now the size of a watermelon. He has been discovering parts of his body. His wings now have a three feet wing span. When he is fully grown their span will be three and […]
I got in four pinky squirrel babies only two to three inches long with eyes and noses not yet formed. Their noses only were two holes through which to breathe. I started by making sure they were warm. That is most important for squirrel babies, keeping them warm. They can go for a while without […]
The best option for a wild animal is to learn normal behavior from members of its own species. Sights, sounds, and smells from people and domestic animals can highly stress a wild animal, potentially causing it harm or death. Wild animals have complex nutritional needs that are not easily met in captivity. Possessing, owning, controlling, […]