It's been a long year, but what we have accomplished is exciting! Now, we need your help to continue this mission 🦦
Wildling Rehab
We apologize for the quiet week, it has been very busy working on preparations to release the wildlings in our care, dealing with our ferret surrender waitlist, rude phone calls and messages because our rescue doesn't ALSO work with cats, dogs, bunnies and pigeons, or that we do not want to PAY hundreds of dollars for someone to surrender an animal TO us.
Not only are we NOT a city shelter, we aren't funded by the city or state at all. We do not have the space nor expertise to properly work on any animals not in the mustelid family. We are simply put, a specialty rescue. We specialize in a specific set of animals so that we can provide them with the best and most appropriate care required of that species.
If you need a recommendation regarding a wildlife animal, we will happily help point you in the correct direction if it is not within the mustelid or related families. But please... do not get rude with us that we cannot physically help when an animal is not one that we are experienced in working with.
‼DESPERATELY NEEDED ITEMS NEXT WEEK:‼
Oxbow Critical Carnivore Care - at least 6x 340g bags
Dr Elsey's Clean Protein Cat Kibble - 6x 6.6lbs bags (duck, turkey or rabbit flavor)
Wysong Epigen 90 Ferret DS - 4x 5lbs bags
We've had to deal with a couple insulinoma crashes this past week, and along with adjustment of meds, it is crucial we provide a meal of CC in these events, as well as regularly to keep crashes from occurring.
Aster is movin' & groovin' ..or maybe that's just a booty itch!
#rmmr #minks #minkrescue #minkofrmmr #saveamink #minkoffacebook #minkofinstagram #rescue
Okay, we're gonna try this again, FB. We decided to do Toothy Tuesday today with Aster, because we saw our rescue friend, For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue, made a post yesterday with Calliope and her un-boopable snoot of doom. So we decided we would try to boop Aster's delightful, pink, little nose.
Suffice to say, Aster was more interested in getting free to play on my desk and trying to create chaos across the keyboard than getting his nose booped. When a mink is on a mission, it is very much like holding onto water... He did give us a lovely view of those sparkling, white chompers though... chompers that on some other mink would mean the loss of one's fingers.
Zhala, our little albino girl is starting to settle in, she is still unsure whether people mean her harm or if they can be trusted, but we are continuing to work on gaining her trust.
Unfortunately, our catio for the wild kits arrived this weekend and not in good condition. It was very banged up and damaged and would not be safe to use, so we are back to square one with less time, and may just have to build one from scratch now. We luckily got refunded for it, so the money can go towards buying the needed supplies to build one. We also spoke to rehabber friends, and an aluminum enclosure was suggested to us that could work, but it costs around $780 by itself, which would leave us without any of the funds needed to furnish the inside with a stock pool, climbing items, dens, etc.
#rmmr #minkoffacebook #minks #minkrescue #minkofrmmr #ToothyTuesday
For Toothy Tuesday, we decided to see if we could boop Aster's pink nose, after seeing For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue show off Calliope's danger dooter yesterday, which is considered non-boopable.
Spicy Tissues
Something's odd about this box of Kleenex....🤧
#minkrescue #minks #mustelidae #rmmr #kleenex #NeedTissue #albinoanimals
It's $5 Dollar Friday! We have the 3 little babies seeing the vet tomorrow and could use some funds towards their bill and good vibes for healthy results.
They are doing well so far, starting to flesh out a little instead of looking malnourished. As our hope and foremost goal is to be able to return these lovelies to the wild where they belong when they are ready, we are keeping them spicy towards people. They might expect us to drop dinner in their laps, but they are very hissy and snatchy about it.
We are also currently in need of some thunder prayers for Seth. Alec passed away last Saturday, and it has been a fight ever since to keep Seth going. While he still has other cagemates who love and snuggle him, without Alec, there is a deep despair in him. We have been lap feeding all week and there has not been any improvement... either things need to start improving or he may need to be fitted for his wings. It is always a deeply painful time when there is no other choice but to make that decision.
As always, if you want to support our mission and the animals in any way, please check out our website!
https://rockymountainminkrefuge.com/support-us/
#wildlife #wildanimals #mink #minks #rehab #rescue #rescueanimals #rmmr #minkofrmmr #minkrescue #FiveDollarFriday #fivedollarfriday #fivedollars
River Gets a Churu
River enjoying a treat for #tongueouttuesday!🩷
🎶Cotton Candy - MilkyyMelodies
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Astraea Got Rescued
#throwbackthursday with one of our sweetest babies, Astraea!
Asta is currently a resident mink at Wild Friends at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary down in Kanab, UT.
I deeply apologize for the lack of posts and other activity on our page. I have been working on getting the website back in order and creating the new pages for it and doing posts on Saveafox Mustelids... while caring for roughly 60 mustelids (cleaning cages, washing bedding, feeding, health checks, enrichment, medications), trying to get on top of reordering MUCH needed supplies where they can be gotten for the cheapest costs, as we are seriously turning around cents for the rescue at this time, dealing with euthanasia and death, and my 2yo is currently sick, trying to get my 4.5yo in a better routine for starting school in August, and other personal matters.
Please be patient as there is a lot that has to get done, and I'm an army of one. My birthday is on the 16th, and I would really like to take from then till the 19th to try and get up to date on some chores around the house and spend some slightly more quality time with my husband and kids. During that time, I will not be actively responding to calls and messages unless it's a true EMERGENCY.
Our Fundraiser is ending later this month and has done absolutely abysmal unfortunately. We again apologize for sounding like a broken record, but please invite others and share our page and links. We cannot make a difference without you.
https://www.facebook.com/donate/764096732330462/
https://www.facebook.com/donate/768567988793724/
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Luciën loves his new Dino!🦖
