Adawehi Animal Rescue

09/14/2025

RIP Melissa and Mark Hortman, assassinated on June 14, along with their beloved dog Gilbert.

Gilbert was trained to be a service dog but was let go from the program because he was “too friendly.”

09/07/2025

Kansas City Chiefs star Isiah Pacheco is building Dogtopia — a 6-hectare, $5 million facility near Bologna dedicated to abused and abandoned dogs and cats. “This is not just a shelter,” he said. “We provide training services, water play areas, 24/7 veterinary care — but most importantly, love. Dogs and cats are family.” Dogtopia aims to become a national model and inspire other athletes to take action.....see more: https://www.fcsports.online/8yYfXArFA

09/05/2025

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at age 91. Oh, how he loved to play with his cats. ❤️💚

09/01/2025

📸 The Photo of the Week. Month. Year. A photo that deserves to be seen by the whole world. ❤️🩹

And no — it’s not an edited AI image that racks up millions of likes just because someone said “happy birthday.”

This is real.
This is raw.
These are our warriors. 💪🇺🇦

An honor to witness. A reminder never to forget. 🙏❣️

08/31/2025

As we close out the week, leaving you with some "good news."

Cincinnati firefighters Eric Uhlhorn and Martez Mitchell rescued this young fawn from a storm drain on Ridge Rd in Oakley Friday evening.

The deer was uninjured and reunited with its mother 🙂

Thank you for your service, Eric and Eric!

📸 : Cincinnati Fire & EMS

08/29/2025

A rare Pampas cat, also known as a colocolo, that lives in the forests of Chile.

With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, experts call Muñoa's pampas cat one of the most endangered felines in the world and warn it go extinct within 10 years as its natural habitat is cleared for cropland.

08/28/2025

08/28/2025

I went out to feed our fawns this morning and as they were running up towards their bottles, with their little noses in the air, all I could think about were the 22 little noses that won't be running up to their bottles this morning. And to be honest, I just had to sit down and cry. The weight of what happened yesterday is too much. My heart aches for the beautiful rehabbers that raised those babies and gave them everything they needed to survive only to have it all stripped away from them yesterday.

My emotions are all over the place, and I'm trying to stop thinking about it but my mind and my heart won't let me. I'm angry. I'm so angry. And I'm hurt. But I'm also scared. If this could happen to them, it could happen to any of us. How long before it's our county? How long before it's our animals? I've never felt so defeated and I'm questioning whether or not to even continue.

As rehabbers, we are forced to walk a very delicate and thin line. We don't dare to rage against the machine because that very machine decides what we can and cannot do. It holds all the power. Wildlife rehabbers, for the most part, get into this work because it's more than just a decision, it's a calling. A calling so deeply rooted in our hearts that there just isn't any other option. This, quite literally, is our life's mission. And it's important. It matters.

If you have wildlife rehabbers in your county or ones that you follow, support them... even if it's just kind words from the sidelines. They carry heavy burdens every day and they're just trying to do their best and make a difference... not only in the lives of the countless wildlife animals that they care for... but also in the world around them.

Please pray for and send kind words to Broadbent today and in the days to come. I know their hearts are shattered. I can't even fathom the amount of defeat they must be feeling... that's the worst part. 😪

08/27/2025

Seems totally unnecessary. If you find an abandoned fawn, find out if you are in the so-called "chronic wasting disease surveillance zone". Kentucky is apparently putting down any and all orphaned fawns in these areas, even if healthy and thriving.

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This one hurts to share. 💔 Kentucky Fish and Wildlife confirmed to me that the 22 fawns at Broadbent Wildlife Sanctuary were, as they described, “humanely euthanized” on Tuesday.

These were the little ones so many of you have been watching, caring about, and rooting for. But because conservation officials say they were taken in illegally after Meade, Breckinridge, and Hardin counties were added to the Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance zone, the state says they could not be released or rehabilitated.

“While the agency regrets the need for euthanasia in this situation, regulations were put in place to limit the spread of CWD,” Kentucky Fish and Wildlife said in a statement.

CWD is an always-fatal disease with no cure and, unfortunately, there is not an approved CWD test for live animals. That doesn’t make this any less heartbreaking for those who poured their hearts into giving these fawns a chance.

I know so many of you are devastated by this outcome.💔

Conservation officials say if you come across a fawn in the wild, please leave it be — in almost every case, its mother is close by.

📷: This photo is one of the fawns that Broadbent was caring for. Our reporter, Destinee Flowers, was there a couple weeks ago and captured this sweet image.

08/27/2025

Happy 74th birthday to the Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford!

08/26/2025

Local cat colony adopts lion. A young wild lion, believed to have been abandoned by its pride months ago, has taken up an unlikely new family. Locals say a colony of feral cats living near the village accepted the lion when it was still a cub, and over time the bond only grew stronger.

Now, if you pass through Kariega in the early mornings, you’ll often see the full grown lion perched proudly on a rocky ledge surrounded by dozens of cats grooming, lounging, and stretching in the sun as if he were one of them.

So far, officials report that the unusual arrangement has caused no safety concerns. The lion keeps to the cats and avoids people, and conservation officers are quietly monitoring the situation