Snug Harbor Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary

03/14/2025

We got back to back bunny calls today!! This little one in Chapin and one in Aiken, both caught by cats.

When a cat catches or messes with any wildlife babies they need to come in and be put on antibiotics. Even if there are no visuals injuries. Cat saliva can be extremely toxic to these babies.

We have her warming up in the incubator now since her body temperature is a little low and possibly in shock. As soon as she’s had a little bit we will give antibiotics, pain meds and fluids.

The sweetest little boy found him in his back yard today and was impressively proactive and sweet about caring for this precious bunny. LaBunny James

03/14/2025

☀️ Good Morning and Happy FRIDAY!!! ☀️

$5 Friday is an affordable way you can help make a huge impact! When all of the $5 donations are put together it adds up quickly.

🌸This Friday we are setting a goal of $250. $250 will cover a 20 lb bucket of formula that will feed lots of babies in the coming weeks!🌸

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2NFZF8RLDRRMJ&fbclid=IwY2xjawGMzT1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHe6zM3kF-KIYJgQ_14h8fxsvLtjf_jPDYt5kLIJ87jYqQ3FFPnc-6uuzyA_aem_mHWm0z2jY1_VP9l_kokqUA

Or Venmo/CashApp SnugHarborWildlifeSC

We hope everyone has a great afternoon and even better weekend!

💜,
The Snug Harbor Wildlife Family

Help support Snug Harbor Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary by donating or sharing with your friends.

03/14/2025

South Carolina lawmakers are looking at changes to how wild animals are regulated.

03/14/2025

Can’t let the last post of the evening be a sad one!

Remember Chip and Dale!? Our little pinkies that came in super early in January. Little Dale was the one who had the severely bruised head from flying 20 ft away when the tree was cut down. He has a little misshaped head from the trauma but no developmental/cognitive issues, can see fine out of that eye and should be perfect to be released.

These little goobers have been hopping around the incubator with the other 4 their age. They are hilarious to watch when they all get going 😂

03/14/2025

Not the post I want to be making tonight. 😭

We lost all five baby opossums today, two mid-day and the others as the days gone on. Their little bodies are so fragile, and it shows how miraculous and beautiful the work of a mama really is- and why being with their mother is always best.

They were given their best chance without a doubt. They passed away with full bellies and a warm soft blanket. A few did start showing slight bruising from the dog attack where they were bumped into; they were all knocked out of mamas pouch. Still beyond greatful the finders checked the yard for them several times to be sure.

Your mama was waiting on y’all and I’m sure happy to have her babies back.

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03/13/2025

😅False Alarm!😅

Update: Donate button Is back in business! AI google was wrong! Take that AI!

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🌸🔊 You may have seen on a few of our posts the “donate” button where you can donate to us directly through Facebook. Yesterday/today it’s greyed out for hundreds of rescues and non profits across the country. I started doing some digging and saw that Facebook is discontinuing the function. Don’t worry though! All donations that have been sent recently will still get to us!🔊🌸

Luckily we have many other options and use these more than the Facebook donate button. We wanted to post this just to let you know incase you notice the issue while scrolling through or see other posts about it. Tagging some of our fellow rescue friends incase they haven’t figured it out yet as well.

✨You can still donate the following ways!✨

Our Website:
www.snugharborwildlifesc.com

Our direct PayPal link:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2NFZF8RLDRRMJ

Or through CashApp/Venmo
SnugHarborWildlifeSC

☀️We hope everyone enjoyed this gorgeous SUNNY day and had a happy Friday Eve!☀️

Thank you all for all your continued love and support!!!

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Snug Harbor Wildlife is a network of in-home wildlife rehabilitators. 100% non profit rescue for SC native wildlife, giving all babies a second chance. Run by friends with love and compassion for our community and the critters within it!

03/13/2025

03/13/2025

This isn’t animal related but important enough to share!

I’ve had multiple friends loose the homes to fires whether it’s electrical or otherwise. This is something we often don’t think about is having your dryer vent deep cleaned especially if you’re in an older home.

Never leave your dryer running and leave the house either.

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03/13/2025

3:30 am feeding these tiny precious babies. Holding a life so fragile and innocent that’s part of this crazy busy spinning world we live in just feels surreal sometimes.

I wanted to show the feeding tube that we use to feed baby opossums. We have posted a few times about how their mother’s teats are longer, the babies swallow the teat allowing her to secrete the milk into their bellies. That’s just the neatest thing to me. This is why it’s so important never to try to syringe feed or bottle feed a baby opossum, they don’t suckle like other babies and will aspirate and basically drown.

This tube is about an inch into this little girl, feeding it down her throat around/past her lungs and into her stomach. This process is basically like threading a needle. Training this skill can often be tricky because it’s based on a lot of feeling the things you cannot see, feeling it glide easily or any resistance getting stuck on the cheek or by their tongue- their tongues are basically stuck to the roof of their mouths at this age. And most importantly the stopping of the tube too short- the feeding tube is measured by the baby’s size before feeding too see how far you need to go to reach the stomach. If it stops half way down that means you are in the lungs. This tube is about the thickness of a spaghetti noodle for size comparison. Needless to say it can be a scary process with such tiny ones.

Every time I go to check on them I say a little prayer that they are all still with us. Will be so glad when we are a little more out the danger zone the next few days to a week!

03/13/2025

Sammy says goodnight! And hopes you sleep well!!!

03/12/2025

🎉It’s Wishlist Wednesday!! If you happen to be on amazon today and want to send a little something our way here is our wishlist! 🎉

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O20M6IIW2K2C?ref_=wl_share

Items we most need are marked High/Highest priority on our amazon wish list. Items like Fox Valley formulas and Henry blocks for squirrels that are listed; can actually be purchased cheaper if ordered directly through the manufacturers! If you would like to order those items we can put those websites in the comments or if you want to send a direct donation for those items we can order them under our discount.

Our mailing address is:

Snug Harbor Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary
1305 St. Peters Church Rd
Chapin, SC 29036

(Please remember that we do not have a facility and we operate out of our homes; if you need to bring an animal or other donations in person please call ahead so we can make those arrangements.)

If you're not sure what to get off amazon and would like to make a direct donation you may do so through our paypal link:

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or via Cashapp/Venmo SnugHarborWildlifeSC

We hope everyone has a great day!!

💜,
The Snug Harbor Wildlife Family!

03/12/2025

Wednesday 10:30 pm Update

We still have all 5 babies 🤞 they just got their first feeding of milk and antibiotics. We start all orphaned opossums on antibiotics, since they are marsupials and not incubated in a placenta they come into the world having received no antibodies from mama.

Putting them on the antibiotics helps prevent any infection or other exposures from taking over these little ones immune systems; especially since these guys were nursing on mama after she passed.

We have three boys and two little girls.

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Wednesday 1am original post:

Our midnight intakes. Last night we got a call that a dog had attacked an opossum and babies had fallen out of the pouch. The finders were fantastic in gathering the babies and getting mama into a box until we got there. Unfortunately mama didn’t make it and left us 6 tiny tiny babies. The babies are between 9-12 grams which puts their chance of surviving pretty low at this size. But to give them that chance was worth the hour and a half ride.

Baby opossums have to be tube fed and at this age it’s every two hours. They did fantastic getting hydrated the last few hours and we are going to do everything we can to get these babies out of the danger zone.

03/12/2025

These two don’t know what to think about going outside to pre release. But mama over here is ecstatic for this step!!! Video in comments!