Critter Care Unlimited

11/06/2024

Facts ❤️

It is estimated there are over 612,000 individuals living in Delaware County that are 55 or older. Many have pets that provide enormous health and emotional benefits to their owners. Research has proven that the human-animal bond is especially beneficial to both humans and animals. The health benefits of a pet are numerous ―from reducing social isolation to improving depression, high blood pressure, and many chronic illnesses. When you improve care for a pet, you also improve outcomes for the humans who love them. Learn more about our Seniors for Seniors program by visiting: https://hsdcohio.org/seniors-for-seniors/

10/28/2024

10/25/2024

Thought this was cute. Anyone need to send a hidden message to their neighbors? 😉🙃

10/11/2024

Is your pup in need of a groom? Be sure to check out Bubbles and Bows Dog Grooming in Sunbury!

Got a stinky pup in need of a groom? 👃🦨
We’ve had a last-minute cancellation for 3 dogs tomorrow! Grab one of the spots before they're gone—give us a text! (740)965-5005🐾

Check out this BEAUTIFUL GROOM by !!🫧🎀

10/10/2024

It’s all about the critters! At CCU we 🍁 the leaves 🍂

10/08/2024

No matter the type of disaster, it is important to always have a plan. Depending on where you live you may be prone to wild fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. One of the quick and easy things you can do is have a to go bag packed and ready to go at all times. Have your pet registered, microchipped and with an appropriate collar or harness with contact information at all times in the event of separation. If it is appropriate to do so evacuate your pets early enough to friends or family. If you have a mass amount of animals practice how you would be able to get them all out in a timely manner and all in one trip. Practice ramp training. Having them leash and harness trained. Doing everything you can to always have things prepped and ready to be able to grab and go. Living in these places comes with risks; you just have to be prepared. Never leave your animals behind.

Here is a list to help get you started and thinking. There are a lot of lives lost and a lot of displaced animals due to the hurricanes and there is another one on the way. We send our condolences to those who have gone, those who are still missing, displaced, separated and we pray for those who are in the path of this next one coming in. 🙏

10/03/2024

Please donate if you can!

10/02/2024

🧐 Please read! 📖📚

Earlier this year, we didn't share some of the tasks we were working on behind the scenes.

Some of our local animal services were inundated with calls about distemper on top of loose dogs, cats, abandoned animals, etc.

Residents were contacting us asking for help. A few of the scenarios are described below.

- A raccoon draped over someone's pool, diarrhea everywhere, snot dripping, crusty eyes they couldn't even open and emaciated
- A raccoon in a storm drain for 3 days crying out in pain, emaciated, crusty eyes, green snot, diarrhea
- A raccoon draped over a tree for days, dripping fluid from both ends
- A resident who feeds raccoons (not the photo below) had a raccoon in a bucket playing when he started seizing. When I arrived, there was diarrhea all over their porch, water buckets, and the actively dying raccoon

While your tax dollars don't go to us, we did dispatch volunteers in quite a few instances to carefully retrieve the raccoons to either take to animal services or to humanely euthanize depending on the severity of their condition. For raccoons that weren't terribly symptomatic or ill, we sent off distemper tests ($20). Unfortunately, all the ones we tested were positive and subsequently humanely euthanized.

More often than not, finders reached out to us because their local animal services was not available for a few hours. When these calls were in close proximity to our leadership, we made it a point to go out to decrease the suffering of the raccoons and to ensure that residents had a positive outcome- helping the animal in a timely manner.

Our hope is that as we continue to grow, we can expand our services without spreading ourselves too thin.

There are a few ways you can proactively help local wildlife:
- Do not feed wildlife. Unnatural congregation can lead to an outbreak of distemper or other zoonotic diseases
- If you offer water, change it throughout the day
- Do not interact with wildlife unnecessarily. This includes trapping and relocating for your convenience
- Support your local wildlife rehabbers. What you see on Facebook is about 1/10th of the work they're actually doing

Thank you for supporting us and helping us spread this important message.

Photo source: social media

10/02/2024

09/25/2024

PSI members, be on the look out for your Oct-Dec '24 issue of Pet Sitter's World magazine to arrive in your mailbox this month!

Featured on the cover is PSI member Raven Jackson, owner of Critter Care Unlimited, LLC, in Marengo, Ohio.

📷The photo was taken by Greg Dettore Photography.

09/19/2024

It’s here!! Critter Care Unlimited made the front cover of Pet Sitter’s World magazine! My girl Blossom the skunk is on the front cover as well! So excited to have had this opportunity to be on the cover and be interviewed by Pet Sitters International! Thank you for all those involved!

https://issuu.com/petsittersinternational/docs/oct-dect_2024_world-issuu


Heartland Country Resort & Animal Sanctuary

09/08/2024

Such beautiful crisp mornings.. Happy Sunday ya’ll!

09/03/2024

Please don’t litter. No matter where you are. Ocean or woods.. if no one is looking or if it’s a place that no one ever frequents. Someone always finds it and typically it’s those who get hurt the most! Don’t litter and consider your trash if it were to blow away or be torn open. Food for thought!