Can’t get enough of his milk. ❤️
Can’t get enough of his milk. ❤️
Mangy fox update. ❤️
Mangy fox update. ❤️
Two days ago she was too weak to even swallow. I wasn’t sure she would even make the drive to try. We were only able to do dextrose through her fluids to keep her going. These small steps mean SO much to us and remind us why we work so hard to do what we do.
She is not yet out of the woods by any means, but with sub-q fluids around the clock, parasite treatment, oxygen therapy, force feeding, and heat, we are going upwards and that is all we can ask for.
To those who have helped with donations in the past for our ICU unit and oxygen tank, you have truly helped us save so many lives!! ❤️ And thank you so much to all those who have donated towards her care!
Babysitting the cutest little house guests while our fellow rehabber @ Hopper Hills Wildlife Rehab Center, Inc. takes a much needed break and camping trip. We love buns!! 💕
Nothing is more entertaining than watching and listening to these little peanuts eat. ❤️
Dinner time for some of the older kiddos. ❤️
Look at our hit by car chippie!!
#whywerescue
Mama and her babies. ❤️❤️❤️
Cat caught with a wicked wound. Back to where he belongs. ❤️🕊️
Cat caught with a wicked wound. Back to where he belongs. ❤️
The sad reality of the season, for any species. He passed away not even 5 minutes in our care from starvation. We are sharing this to remind everyone to please drive carefully and watch closely for animals crossing the road. DO NOT use rodenticide. You could be taking the life of an entire family. Of course accidents happen and so many other things can happen to our wildlife mamas. But anything we can do on our part as humans to avoid this suffering is so important.
Rest in peace, sweet baby.
Thinking a couple weeks back on Todd’s intake. He was so dehydrated, emaciated, and just looked awful. Pictures really didn’t do his condition justice from not being able to hunt and suffering for atleast a week, after he stepped in a spring trap which took off part of his front leg. He’s filled out so much, his coat looks healthier, and it’s only been two weeks since his surgery. ❤️❤️
We love you so much, sweet boy. ❤️
You can just tell how much more comfortable he’s feeling. ❤️
He’s been having some trouble eating with the cone on, but unfortunately it has to be on for 7-10 days to keep him from messing with his sutures. BUT that doesn’t mean we can’t give him a helping hand and personally feed him his snacks! All of his medications have been disguised in meatballs which he takes willingly. He’s been one easy patient and we are loving every minute of nursing him back to health. 🦊
We are still deciding on a name, if anyone has any name ideas, we will pick tomorrow!
WE DID IT!! ❤️🦊
It’s been an incredibly long day for us and even more so, for our poor boy who had an emergency leg amputation after trapping his arm inside a spring trap. But we made it through! And yes, we have a boy!
He also recieved his rabies and distemper vaccinations and was heart worm tested, which came back positive for anaplamosis, a bacterial tick borne disease, which responds quickly to antibiotics.
He took his meds incredibly well and accepted our help feeding, let us clean up his cone, and even tolerated some gentle pets as he drifted asleep. With a completely missing front leg, he was deemed non-releasable, so we will get more into that when the time comes for placement.
For right now, please send us healing thoughts and prayers for a smooth recovery and that we can make friends and get him to trust us. ❤️
We need name ideas!!!
Eating and resting. ❤️
Such a long few days she’s had and I’m sure with little food or sleep involved. We can’t say it enough, but she’s been such an amazing sport during all of this. Just one more night and we have her surgery bright and early. 💕
We apologize for the delay, as it’s been a long night and day of work.
Last night, we posted about our precious baby fox kit that we received a message about who was found crying and circling in the road. Shortly after coming home and announcing his arrival, we noticed some severe neurological symptoms, such as seizures and tremors that only got worse the next few hours until he sadly took his last breath in our arms. 😞
Last year, wildlife rehabbers in our area were seeing these same symptoms in a lot of red fox kits and Cornell’s wildlife hospital began testing to see if we could figure out what was going on with these guys. It appeared that many of the cases associated with these symptoms tested positive for the avian bird flu, previous known to only effect species of birds. Of course these symptoms could have many other causes such as a toxin, rabies, distemper, an unknown head injury, etc., but we are concerned we may be seeing this again this year. We are waiting for a call back from Cornell’s pathology department and he will likely be sent out for necropsy.
We are so sorry we couldn’t save you, sweet baby. Fly high and know your life mattered and we loved you so.
After being on a diet for 20 minutes.
Anyone….? 🤣
It doesn’t quite seem like it, but Gregory has grown SO much already and is becoming more and more active. ❤️
We love watching every little milestone of these guys. Sheldon is younger and more shy, so he often stays in his shell. They both usually ignore one another, but we are happy they have eachother. 💞
You can tell he’s becoming a little snapper. 🤣🐢
