11/07/2025
Hi, it’s me, Suz.
Asking for donations. The thing I hate doing.
But, fall brings donations to a screeching halt. This is a long post. I apologize. It’s been a long baby season.
Most of the times that I pick up an animal, no donation is made. I am not sure if people think I get paid for rescue/rehab or if the state helps fund this?
This is 100% my own money and donation based.
I must be crazy right? Who in their right mind would willingly have zero down time, give their money to animals, and spend day after day of ‘days off’ from her regular job watching geese to try and get fishing line and lures off them?
I can’t tell you how much it means when a finder of an animal needing help, passes a $20 bill to me with the baby. That act of kindness and understanding goes a long way.
📍📍I still have 6 teenage squirrels that will be here until next May, when they can begin their pre release back into the wild. 1 gray, 1 Pine( red) and 5 fox squirrels. They require specific foods and it can really add up. In addition to toys, things to chew on and destroy and more food.
📌📌A quick run down of numbers since April of ‘25
📌Over 8,000 miles logged. My drive to work is only 10 miles. So many trips to Casper, or halfway. Sheridan, Buffalo, Moorcroft, etc. Y’all get the point .
📌Over 160 bird calls answered and I do not take birds. I’m not legally permitted for them. So many bird calls. Unfortunately most were cat related deaths. I refuse to not answer a call for help; especially when I know that bird is suffering.
📌15 squirrels including a precious dwarf
📌103 rabbits. So many cottontials. It was a horrible year for lagomorphs. The deaths were overwhelming and awful.
📌Several turtles. Mostly native, Western Painted. 1 that was gathered up by an over zealous dog. She required two weeks of antibiotics and I got a crash course in turtle medicine, and learned how to palpate a turtle, and she was egg bearing. Myrtle The Turtle will always hold a special place in my heart. She was returned to her home area 🧡)
1 turtle with 2 fishing hooks through Its mouth and palate. Safely returned home after the hooks were removed with the help of my coworkers, and the wounds cleaned and proof that food was not an issue after a 24 hour hold period.
Another turtle that needed a turtle Uber, courtesy of a young lady at the country club and a golf cart.
Turtles should never be relocated or moved. They are territorial!
📌A Bushy Tailed Woodrat that forever changed my life. 🧡Minnie 🧡
📌5 raccoons. 1 decided to stay here. She is a scratch and dent model 🧡🦝
The others went to Rocking R Raccoon Rescue after a short time with me. The babies grew up and were successfully released
📌1 Jack rabbit
📌60 hours assisting game and fish, searching for and trying to catch injured geese at the fishing lake. The only time I have been able to kayak in 3 years and it was to catch a blind goose and try not to dump myself out into Dalbey. Somethings I wish were caught on camera. I did not fall in the lake, but was soaking wet and covered in feathers.
📍more caffeine than any one person should ever consume.
🧡📍🧡Point being, this is expensive and exhausting, and I cannot do this without donations.
📍Venmo
📍Cash app
$littlezswildlife
📍Regular Paypal
[email protected]
📍checks
Little Zs Wildlife Rehab
C/O Suzanne Hansen
PO Box 2113
Gillette WY 82717
📍donate button below
Please know that FB and PayPal hold this account for disbursements that may be between 45-90 days
The rehab is a federal 501(c)3 non profit organization.
🧡🧡Thank y’all🧡🧡
