Skunks and more skunks! Bats! Birds! and opossums…always opossums…and a snake surgery! What a darling face! The year of the skunk Last year was the year of the armadillo, this one is turning out to be the year of the skunk. Being licensed for so many species means my door is open to nearly everyone. …
This will be the briefest blog post ever! I’ll be making another one this week and will get it out to everyone Three adorable faces that came in one after another! Two of these baby skunks were orphaned after their mother was hit by a car. The third was found in a field, wandering alone….
Baby bird growing up! Emergency snake surgery! Cute opossums! Little girl getting physical therapy Such a sweet, hopeful face A true fighting spirit This little girl has seen some hard times and challenges and met them head on. After an accident involving a running wheel in her cage, she was paralyzed from the waist down. …
Right now I have more animals at once than I’ve ever had, and the time it takes to care for them all, and myself, is immense. I’m lucky to have a few dedicated volunteers who help out but 95% of the time it’s just me. So here’s a big bunch of photos without a lot…
What a week! I’m up to 62 patients now. Here are some of them. Cottontail Little bunny came in one day old, attacked by a cat. He’s growing and thriving! I feed him two to three times a day with bunny milk replacer. My second armadillo and a bluebird This little very young armadillo was…
This week had an extracurricular activity and LOTS of hotline phone calls But first, cute baby photos Of course! That little kid is super excited about milk that he’s putting his whole body into slurping it down. 5 new babies enjoy their Timothy hay filled nest, soft and sweet-smelling. Photos in this post are taken…
The last week has been similar to the week before- a few new opossums coming in, everyone here getting bigger, and a couple challenges. Baby update The 37 babies are all growing and getting nice and fat. They run on their wheels and play in their cages at night, having become nocturnal. Tyrone, in the…
Although I was closed to intakes I still managed to add 20 animals For tips and tricks on how to end up with more animals than you planned on, follow me! Daniel goes to the vet Daniel was kept as a pet- sort of. People raised him for a while in a home and then…
It’s been another opossum-full week here, with happy news about Miss Fox, a bat release, and some interesting phone calls I know you want to hear about the joeys but let me share some phone calls I received Oh no, Ospreys A caller from a Flowery Branch athletic department had an interesting problem that I…
As baby season gets into full swing, the incubators are filling up with joeys The story almost always starts sad Most of the joeys I have were orphaned when a dog killed their mother. One of them was orphaned when a storage building was moved, disturbing the area where she and her Mom and siblings…
