Geaux Wild Rehab

01/29/2025

Another opossum was brought here last night.

I am so thankful for kind people who stop and help these animals and don't just turn their backs on them. Send Miss May some good healing vibes and prayers y'all 🙏🏼

01/29/2025

This is the rabbit that came in weeks ago as a tiny 89gram baby. I 'tried' releasing him today...

Wild rabbits will take off and run when released. This guy sat here looking back at me for about 15 minutes. I rustled the leaves and grass and he didn't budge so I scooped him back up and brought him back in. Will try again in a few days...

Rabbits aren't handled in rehab here once they are self feeding. The less hands on we are with them the better it is for them since they stress so easily. It's unusual for one to not take off and run especially at his age

01/28/2025

More on the fur farm in Ohio

a HUGE shoutout to WEST Wildlife Rehab and any other rescue organization that was able to help and take in the animals that still have a chance. Praying for everyone involved. I can't begin to imagine how this was in person - the sounds, smells, up close visuals... It is just heartbreaking💔😓

Hundreds of animals have been rescued from what humane agents are calling a “fur and urine farm” in Ashtabula County.

01/28/2025

Continuation of the fur farm

01/28/2025

Horrific isn't even the right word to begin to describe this situation.

I'm including a link to the story and also sharing a few posts from WEST Wildlife Rehab showing just how awful this was.

https://www.humanesociety.org/news/most-horrific-hundreds-foxes-raccoons-wolf-dog-hybrids-skunks-and-coyotes-rescued-fur-farm

01/26/2025

Smiles for Sunday! Stories of recovery and healing...

Our youngest bunny has been ready for release but with this snow and insane temps I chose to wait. He will be released this week

Olaf, our injured opossum from last week, is doing fantastic! His hand is healing beautifully and the leg wound looks great too.

Nibbles, the Bachman squirrel, is growing so fast and will be moved to the outside cage soon and then released in the spring on another rehabbers property so she can join others

Hazel, our opossum with multiple facial fractures, is doing fantastic also. She is ready for release too.

And our rabbit from Friday night is doing great! The eye looks so much better already.

The foxes and bobcats are doing great! I think both are thankful for warmer temps now☀️
I don't have updated pics on them today to share

There is an Amazon wishlist that has supplies on it for all year long and also a separate one for supplies needed soon with baby season coming...

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1Z1S9SC7ZMG3B?ref_=wl_share

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/N7MIN9UAUTMO?ref_=wl_share

01/26/2025

A huge thank you to our anonymous donor and Tammy for these generous gifts from our Amazon wishlist! 🥰

Our formula supply is steadily growing as we get ready for the upcoming baby season.

🦊🦨🐇🦝🐿️🦡🐾

01/25/2025

🎉Y'all are AMAZING!!! With the donations yesterday I was able to give the two sub permittees $200.00 each to help with the care of the baby nutrias 🎉

I also replaced the funds that were used to order (2) 25 pound bags of Mazuri leaf eater blocks for them a couple of weeks ago

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! We are so blessed and appreciative of the support

01/25/2025

Copy/pasted from North Texas Wildlife Center

Capture myopathy (CM) is a non-infectious disease of wild and domestic animals in which muscle damage results from extreme exertion, struggle, or stress. CM often occurs as a result of chemical immobilization, capture, or transport, but it is not always associated with capture and can be the result of other causes of stress.

When working with cottontails, fawn, and birds, who are prone to CM, we must limit stress by decreasing stimulation from the environment. No music, minimize talking, small and intentional movements, and other mindful approaches can help decrease stress for wildlife.

If you find a cottontail in need of rehabilitative care, we encourage you to carefully place them in a lined and ventilated box and place the box in a quiet and dark place until you can secure rehabilitative placement. Do not handle, do not pass around for everyone to pet, and do not blast music when transporting.

These small but mindful actions can save little cottontail lives.

Capture myopathy (CM) is a non-infectious disease of wild and domestic animals in which muscle damage results from extreme exertion, struggle, or stress. CM often occurs as a result of chemical immobilization, capture, or transport, but it is not always associated with capture and can be the result of other causes of stress.

When working with cottontails, fawn, and birds, who are prone to CM, we must limit stress by decreasing stimulation from the environment. No music, minimize talking, small and intentional movements, and other mindful approaches can help decrease stress for wildlife.

If you find a cottontail in need of rehabilitative care, we encourage you to carefully place them in a lined and ventilated box and place the box in a quiet and dark place until you can secure rehabilitative placement. Do not handle, do not pass around for everyone to pet, and do not blast music when transporting.

These small but mindful actions can save little cottontail lives.

01/25/2025

This rabbit was found in the road this evening and brought here a little while ago.

He's very stressed so I only did a quick assessment and am letting him decompress tonight. His left eye is bleeding.
Meds have been started for pain and also an antibiotic

Rabbits stress so easily and especially the older ones when in captivity. Please keep this one in your prayers, he needs them

01/24/2025

Today is $5 Friday🎉🤗

We have 6 baby nutrias in rehab now. These little ones can eat like a teenage boy...
Every dollar counts and adds up to make a big difference🩷

https://venmo.com/u/GeauxWildRehab

https://www.paypal.com/biz/profile/geauxwild.

01/23/2025

Copied/shared from For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue

It’s mid-January and you wake up at night to the sound of a woman screaming in terror. Or… wait, that’s not a woman, is it? That’s a… bird of some kind? a Bigfoot? a mountain lion? It’s easy for our imaginations to get carried away when we hear that eerie scream in the darkness.

Most of the time, that bizarre scream that sounds like a woman is coming from a red fox. Although foxes can scream at any time of year, you’re most likely to hear this call between late December and mid-February, when vixens are most likely to be in heat.

Foxes will scream to communicate across long distances or claim a territory, but they also frequently scream when they’re trying to attract a mate. Male and female foxes both make this odd vocalization when they’re looking for love.

There’s no need to do anything in particular if you hear foxes screaming. It will probably only last a few nights and it’s not a sign that they’re hurt or in pain (even if it sounds like it to us). It’s all just part of these beautiful creatures’ complex communication as they find mates, raise families, and go about their lives on this planet we all share. 🦊

It’s mid-January and you wake up at night to the sound of a woman screaming in terror. Or… wait, that’s not a woman, is it? That’s a… bird of some kind? a Bigfoot? a mountain lion? It’s easy for our imaginations to get carried away when we hear that eerie scream in the darkness.

Most of the time, that bizarre scream that sounds like a woman is coming from a red fox. Although foxes can scream at any time of year, you’re most likely to hear this call between late December and mid-February, when vixens are most likely to be in heat.

Foxes will scream to communicate across long distances or claim a territory, but they also frequently scream when they’re trying to attract a mate. Male and female foxes both make this odd vocalization when they’re looking for love.

There’s no need to do anything in particular if you hear foxes screaming. It will probably only last a few nights and it’s not a sign that they’re hurt or in pain (even if it sounds like it to us). It’s all just part of these beautiful creatures’ complex communication as they find mates, raise families, and go about their lives on this planet we all share. 🦊

01/22/2025

🥶🥶🥶
Both water bowls were frozen
The foxes decided that they should p**p in theirs🤦🏼‍♀️🙄
The bobcats aren't thrilled and are staying under the roof and avoiding the ice and melting snow

We did make a ☃️ today

Time for warm gumbo and a fire...hope y'all have a wonderful evening and stay warm

01/22/2025

Wow! What a HUGE change it has been...from green and sunny to white and 🥶

How is the weather where you are?

Everything is still closed around here and the roads are not safe to drive on. The temps are around 12° now and the roads are icy.

Hope everyone affected by this winter storm is safe and warm. I'll bundle up soon and head out to check on the bobcats and foxes and replace their frozen water with fresh.
Stay warm and safe y'all

01/21/2025

LSU is available if anyone finds injured wildlife. They cannot take in rabies vector species - bats, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, skunks, or larger mammals like bobcats but CAN HELP with injured birds, squirrels, rabbits, opossums...small mammals

The animal MUST BE INJURED. They DO NOT take in healthy orphans.

LSU has an amazing staff and they do a lot to help wildlife here in Louisiana. Rumors are floating around that they euthanize everything and this IS NOT TRUE at all