Our Dumpster girl gained her freedom and a restart to her life in Nature!! Huge thank you to her rescuers for keeping her shaded and hydrated until we got there to help her!!
The Stinkers are starting to shy away and avoid us at feeding time which is awesome and sad all at the same time..their enclosure is surrounded by visual barriers to limit their comfort with us coming and going as we do daily chores.
Skunk fact: We have to feed them enough food for them to get full but not enough for them to have left overs. Skunks love to eat and in a rehab setting can become obese very quickly.
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⚠️PSA None of our WILDLIFE (RVS/Non-RVS animals) leave the facility(we no longer have educational NRs) or interact with anyone unless it is our vet staff or licensed rehabilitators. They are not viewed by the public at anytime and are not taken to another facilities for any reason. These FIVE are orphaned wildlife who are in the process of rehabilitation to be released at a release site within their county of intake.⚠️
The Baby Bandits moved to their Pre Pre-Release enclosure and enjoyed some frozen fruit treats!!
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⚠️PSA None of our WILDLIFE (RVS/Non-RVS animals) leave the facility or interact with anyone unless it is our vet staff or licensed rehabilitators. They are not viewed by the public at anytime and are not taken to another facilities for any reason. These TWO are orphaned wildlife who are in the process of rehabilitation to be released at a release site within their county of intake.⚠️
Happy Wednesday one of our baby opies would like to remind you to get your steps in today!!
Martee had a puppy pad party in his limited mobility cage while we were cleaning cages last night(he missed the memo of limited mobility) we had to wait for him to get done playing before we could put his house and fresh blankets back in...martee had to come back into the wilding hut due to an injury to his gimpy leg so we could medicate the injured spot. Once he's healed he will go back out into the outdoor enclosure with the rest of the squirrels.
⚠️PSA we use these limited mobility cages bc its nearly impossible to catch a squirrel in our big 8 ft tall outdoor enclosure multiple times a day to provide medical care...it can be quite the workout for us and causes unnecessary stress for the squirrels⚠️
When you should be cleaning but the squirrel antics are to entertaining!!
⚠️PSA...The black specs in the straw are sunflower seed shells and thistle seeds not poops⚠️
Enjoy a Wildling Feeding Frenzy...Jelly Bean is growing he's getting his beard, whiskers andfur on his back/tail....He's eating 2 ccs like a champ...he gets some dry skin so we give him a coconut oil massage after every feeding...Martee is growing and gets big mad when he has to eat his food slowly. He is on dexamethasone injections twice a day for inflammation and will be seeing our vet Friday so we can look at his leg and get a care plan set up...Thank you to both of these guys rescuerers, followers and supporters.
PB slubbing his clean puppy pads...opies slub when they like the scent of something, to mark something as there's or because they like the feel of the texture.
Grape eating ASMR provided by Ms. Hathor
Ms. Amana says even though it's raining food makes everything better...Amana is our oldest Opie at a guess-timated age of 4+ due to her age at intake, how long she has been with us, the shape of her teeth and some of her blood work. She is on a soft food diet with some tough/harder food pieces to keep tartar off her teeth and keep her jowls muscles strong. Amana came to us after being hit by a car. She broke 17 out of 22 of the bones in her nose leading to her being unable to smell to forage. That along with her damaged eye and limited vision in her "good" eye led to her being non-releasable. She had a pouch full of babies when she came to us. She raised all of them herself and all 11 were released back into the wild!! Ms. Amana and wildlife like her are why we do what we do.
⚠️Disclosure: our daughter is laughing from outside the wildling hut she wanted to see how Amana eats tomatoes. Due to regulation changes she can no longer be within the rehab/wildling areas but sometimes she gets to watch night-time feedings from outside. ⚠️
Did you know Groundhogs hibernate for 90-158 days and during this hibernation they lose 30% of their body weight!! Once in hibernation they don't eat or drink they lower their body temperature from around 99° to around 37°. They are bulking up right now and will go into a torpor which is where they slow down and only come out when the weather is just right to conserve energy and not burn through their stored calories then along about the 2nd wk of November they will go into hibernation. If you see a groundhog please don't relocate them right now because they have a burrow that is made to keep them snug and safe during their hibernation plus they don't have time to search for food that will burn calories that they just can't afford to waste right now.
(Mr. Silva our Non-Releasable Groundhog is enjoying his morning salad)
Silva enjoys his room service salads! Adam says he eats salads the humans pay $24 for so I've attached pics of his salad ingredients so everyone can enjoy Silva's Specialty Salads!
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Today's Baby Bandit enrichment and heat survival kit includes swimming pools, frozen fruit, toys and puddles
Hercules has been released for a while but stays close to home and enjoys his pre-bedtime snacks.
