Mutt Farm Wildlife Rehabilitation

10/29/2024

There are a few more days to vote for Wild Bill in the Fairfield County Trail of Scarecrows. We would appreciate more votes! We are out to win the Stoutsville category again to keep our title and bragging rights; and the prize money goes towards supplies for the animals in care.

This year the animals have teamed up to cage Wild Bill.

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08/20/2024

If you have a raccoon in or around your house, it’s best to assume there are babies too! We typically receive baby raccoons when there’s a situation with a "nuisance" mama raccoon in someone's house. The homeowner will relocate mom then days later the babies are discovered. The baby raccoons have been flowing in this week, so let’s help keep them with their mom this season by trying humane hazing techniques before you contact a pest control service.

Raccoons like dark, quiet locations to raise their young, so make your attic/ crawl space the opposite! You want to do this around dusk since raccoons are nocturnal.

💡🔦 Light it up! Spotlights, flashlights, strobe lights, work lights, use whatever you have! Set them up by the entrance/exit point or throughout your attic to ensure maximum annoyance.

🎙📣 Crank it up! Place a speaker or radio in or near the attic and turn it on as loud as you (and your neighbors) can tolerate. Rock music, talk radio, anything loud or with human voices will work.

If the mom is successfully annoyed, she will carry her babies one by one to a new location. It will probably take a full night or two, but she should come back for them all.

- If you're sure they have completely vacated, put up some hardware cloth or chicken wire to cover the entrance/exit hole until you can arrange a more permanent fix.

- If you're unsure if they've left, stuff some newspaper into the entrance/exit hole. Alternatively, tape one or two layers of paper covering it. If a few nights go by and it's undisturbed, then congrats! Your attic is now raccoon free and mom and babies can keep on living their best life!

📜✅ (If you do resort to a pest control service, ask them to double check for babies so they can at least be relocated together. Also ask to see the company’s state permit before you sign a contract to be sure they will actually be relocating the raccoons.)

08/07/2024

AHNOW.ORG can help you find a rehabber. Keep warm and quiet and call a rehabber ASAP.

07/27/2024

🎈 🥳 BIG NEWS TODAY! 🥳 🎈
We are so excited for the completion of our skunk and raccoon pre-release cage! This new enclosure has been a year and a half in the making.

A huge thank you to Matthew for his hard work and time building us a second enclosure for our rescue animals!

❤️ We would like to thank: ❤️
Atomic Credit Union,
Grandma Fayes Grocery and Deli,
Pam and Laura,
And our wonderful monthly My Giving Circle donators Kim, Melinda, Lori, and Amy.
Your donations made this wonderful new space possible!

Stink, Stank, Stunk, and Bomb enjoyed their first meal in the large new space, and then explored every nook and cranny. This evening we added a tire swing and a house.

This enclosure will enable us to help more animals each year!

Next we would like to convert our old duck pen into a fox enclosure to allow us to start accepting fox. Please reach out if you would like to help make this next dream a reality. 🥰

07/25/2024

07/15/2024

Last week we were honored to be asked to share our education animals and program at 2 branches of the Pickaway County Library (Circleville and Ashville) for their summer reading program. We are very grateful for the wonderful supply donations gathered at the branches to help our intakes. A huge thank you to everyone that contributed!
This Wednesday we are visiting the Ross County Parks summer program for kids, and next week the PARS program for at-risk children in Circleville.

06/16/2024

And for all animals dogs and cats, insects included, we have 2 bee drinking stations set up and today they were drinking up

06/13/2024

We are getting lots of calls about fawns found alone.

Deer and rabbit mamas don’t stay with their babies. They know their presence brings predators. They watch from a distance. If chased by a predator they will run the opposite direction from the baby to lead the predator away. She will return at dusk to feed when it’s just dark enough that you won’t see her.

But should something happen to mom, like getting hit by a car, here are the signs to watch for. First look for dehydration. If dehydrated the baby’s ears will start curling up like potato chips. After that comes hungry. If hungry she will start crying and get up to go look for mama.

Information on the internet is all crap. Don't feed the baby! Well meaning people kill too many fawns with a bad diet. A bad diet is a horrible, slow, painful way to die.

She may leave her baby there for days and just come at dawn and dusk to feed. Baby is not big enough to keep up with her yet when she goes to eat or to outrun predators.

06/07/2024

Part 3

Tipsy has been questioned again by authorities. She is one calm criminal who seems to have no remorse for her crimes.

05/02/2024

Part 2

She returned to the scene of the crime, but she had retained a lawyer and was not talking!

05/02/2024

Part 1

Tipsy was enjoying some exercise time last night playing in her swimming pool playground, so I decided to let her play while I ran upstairs to grab something to eat and wait for the baby opossums to arrive. This is what I returned to find.

04/20/2024

We do not take songbirds, but get dozens of calls a month. This is great information to help you decide when to intervene. Not all animals need help.

04/16/2024

Copper is a beautiful Copper Screech Owl. He is an adult and a whopping 6” tall. Screech owls are among the smallest owls in North America.

Last month Copper was hit by a van and his wing became stuck in the sliding door, dragging him for an unknown distance. When the driver arrived at work Copper was discovered. He was taken to the Circleville Police Department and we were contacted for help. Exhausted and missing feathers with possible fractures; he needed special help and was transported to the Glen Helen Raptor Center. Rebecca and the gang are amazing! Copper made a full recovery, with no broken bones, and this evening was released back to the wild. Unfortunately we don’t know exactly where he came from, so he was released here at Mutt Farm (within a few miles of the path of the van that morning). A quick look around, and he flew out of the box and straight to the creek to start learning his new surroundings. Best of luck beautiful Copper!!!

We finally captured our Lead Volunteer, Arron, assisting after another long transport (aka: Mother Nature’s Uber). Thanks for everything Arron!

03/12/2024

Know anyone hiring? The nice lady here says it’s time for me to get a job and start buying my own carrots! Who knew a bag of carrots should last longer than 2 days?!?!

03/09/2024

Raccoons Seem to Wash Their Food Before Eating It
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Procyon lotor is the Latin name for the raccoon — lotor means “the washerman.” If you watch raccoons eating you'll notice that they often seem to wash their food before they dine. If there’s no water around, they still go through the same motions, moving their forepaws around on their food and lifting it up and down. However, researchers say it's not a cleanliness habit that drives this behavior.

Wildlife biologists believe that raccoons have very sensitive nerves on the fingers of their front paws. When they are foraging for food in water, they are feeling around with their paws to gather sensory information. In a study of 136 raccoons, researchers in Nova Scotia found that wetting the skin helped increase the responsiveness of those nerves. But even when there’s no water around, the dunking ritual helps them grip their food and get it to their mouths.

03/07/2024

🕳️🦫 UPDATE 🕳️🦫

Nippy’s name was changed to Tipsy, a much more fitting name. Her coordination and vision have greatly improved from her arrival as her brain continues to recover. She has started daily exercise sessions to burn off some energy, allow us to monitor her success walking and getting around obstacles, and her vision with locating treats and toys. Soon we hope to move outside.

Anyone that has ever seen the teeth on an adult woodchuck will understand why I am wearing leather snow boots, just in case. 😳😏

11/18/2023

⭐️ Saturday, November 25th ⭐️
Mutt Farm Wildlife Rehabilitation
Fundraiser
Hocking Hills’ Frozen Yogurt Company
104 E Main Street
Logan, Ohio
12:00 -4:00

Come enjoy a treat and meet Radar.
A percentage of the profits will help
save animals!