WildRescue, Inc./Rabbit Rescue

It’s happening!! Keep those feeders clean and up!!

Fall 2024 Hummingbird Migration Fall Hummingbird migration in 2024 southward from Canada through the United States, migration patterns, and migration times by species.

Sometimes people either don’t drive or don’t have a car.
Sometimes people are disabled.
Sometimes people are ill and can’t leave their house.
Sometimes people are barely making ends meet and can’t afford to donate.

I never judge.

But sometimes, when there is a need, when a wild thing is suffering or weak, a member of the community steps up and answers the call to transport.
Sometimes taking care of each other and the wee little ones creates a priority in someone’s day and they say Yes I Can.

Be that person.

Because you can drive
Because you can walk
Because you can ride a bike
Because you are healthy and whole

Thank you to those who say Yes I Can.

The sadness in the eyes of the ones left behind prisms into a metamorphosis of wonder and joy. The wonder in the eyes now wide and alive gives us all we will ever need to rise. Rise to the need of those left behind lift them in love and it will change your soul. ♥️🐈🦆🐕‍🦺

Good morning from Frick and Frack! Two woodpeckers raised and released here at the Rescue ♥️

Huge kudos to the City of Denton Watershed Protection Team! Adam just brought me a very debilitated cottontail from a job site. He deserves an award as whenever he goes out on site his eyes are always looking for wildlife that may be in danger or in need of help. Thankful this morning for my city’s compassion and for Adam Parsons heart and hands!

Peekaboo

***RESOLVED!!! Thank you Julie!! ***

TRANSPORT NEEDED
From Lewisville Animal Services to the Rescue in Denton! Please text me at 940-442-8289 if you can assist!
Also!! Injured infant cottontail needs a ride up to me from Advantage Storage in Lewisville up to me!!

It’s hot out there!!! Time to talk about what to do when you find baby (infant) squirrels on the ground. They will fall out of their nest because of the heat and wind/rain. With the temps over 100 right now, you can expect to see little ones on the ground where they don’t belong!

Get a small cardboard box and line it with a T-shirt.
Put the baby(ies) in the box
Lash the box up into the crook of the tree it fell out of
Start playing distressed infant squirrel calls (see comments)
Monitor from a distance.
Don’t wait 12 hours - if mom is still alive she will come within minutes to an hour or so - it depends on what’s going on.
If she does not appear then download the free app Animal Help Now! to find a Wildlife rehabilitator that is close to you. And of course you can always text me at 940-44288289! Thank you to everyone who brought me baby Squirrels today! And especially to the ones who got reunited!


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Rehabbing is incredibly hard. There are times we see more trauma and death than health. Once we release our charges we literally send them out on a wing and prayer. These are very likely the two bluebirds that my friends the Dovesbergers released in their own colony! They were raised together, released together and they sure look like my kids! So this morning I bring you love and togetherness - and hope.

***RESOLVED!” Thank you Bob!
Transport needed to Blackland Prairie Raptor Center from the Rescue in Denton please!

Transport needed from The Colony Animal Services to the Rescue in Denton today please! Text them at 972-370-9250

Good evening, my friends – 

WildRescue will be closed for intake starting tomorrow, Monday the 15th of July through September 15.

You, the public are partially to blame. I have been constantly barraged by phone calls and texts from 3 o’clock in the morning to whenever and then threatened, guilted and yelled at for not being prompt enough in returning messages or not being open past seven in the evening or available for drop off at 6am.

I need for you to understand something. I/we are volunteers. We don’t get paid. We don’t get vacations. We don’t get to go to dinner heck sometimes we barely get a shower because somebody showed up on our doorstep at seven in the morning. We are not the ER or the animal shelter.

Setting boundaries has not worked. Today at least three times I had my head taken off because I didn’t say what people wanted to hear and I declined intake past 7 PM. Today a baby duck died and I got blamed for it but the person could’ve easily taken it to Rogers or gone out on social media and asked for help getting Transport , but instead, I got the brunt of her fury. I’m sorry my friends I did not sign up for this. I haven’t said anything out loud because God forbid somebody think that I’m complaining or whining. But you try having a debilitating blood disease, working a full-time job, taking care of a house and a rescue all at the same time.

I will still serve the city of Denton, but I will be taking myself off the Dfw Hotline for the month. I need a break. I need to rest and I need to take care of what I have already which is considerable. I have an intake of over 800 animals for the current year and it’s only mid July. Think about that for a moment.

I don’t know what’s happening out there but the tone of people has radically changed. They don’t understand why I ask for a donation and they certainly don’t care about anything being convenient for me. It needs to be convenient to them.

If you need assistance, text me. I will direct you to the closest Wildlife rehabilitator and only people that I trust.

A huge shout out and thank you to all of the kind, loving wonderful and amazing people that transport, support and love me. Thank you to Carisa Lea for transporting this beautiful little fawn out to one of our incredible deer rehabilitators. This is why we do what we do. 

See you in September.

I keep seeing people talking out here on fb offering assistance for wild rabbits and just not being up to speed with accurate information. I’m going to put this paragraph here and hope it helps. You might want to save it in Notes so that when you see someone offering inaccurate information you can gently and nicely insert accurate words. People will think you’re criticizing, but I don’t know how to get around that. Education is the most important thing we can offer. So let’s be part of the accurate information team!

Mothers do not leave their kits at an early age. They do stay away from the nest which helps keep predators away.

They nurse most commonly at dusk and not as commonly at dawn. Sometimes they will skip a night particularly if there is severe weather.

Kits open their eyes when they are ten days of age. By the time they’re 2 1/2 weeks old they are venturing from the nest and by the time they’re three weeks old they are most commonly out of the nest. They are Geo sensors so wherever they are in your yard, they will smell mom‘s pheromones and they will sense her footsteps and know that it’s time to go have dinner and find her.

The white blaze on their forehead doesn’t mean a thing it disappears when it disappears and there’s no particular age that it does fade away. Some kits are born without a blaze.

They are born with natural instincts and it is so cool to see those instincts develop as they grow up. They do not stay as a family unit, but by the time they are five weeks of age, they are usually singular and on their own.

There are usually 2 to 6 in a litter. They can have a litter once a month with gestation 28 to 31 days. They will come back and have a litter in the same area where the previous one was.

And here’s the biggie! Mom does not care if you touch her babies! If you’re at all worried or concerned, just rub your hands in the grass before you pick them up.

You are always welcome to text me at 940-442-8289 and ask me questions. I’m Diana with WildRescue.

This is a PSA for anyone in the path of Hurricane Beryl as she moves up through Texas.

If you find injured or orphaned Wildlife, please contain it in a size appropriate cardboard box lined with a clean towel or T-shirt if it’s a small box and place the box on a heating pad set on low in a bathroom that you’re not using and turn off the light.

If it is a larger mammal or bird, please put it in a size appropriate box again lined with a clean towel and follow the above instructions.

If you don’t have a heating pad and can safely get to a Walmart or store that carries hot hands handwarmers get the ones that are the 18 hour if it all possible and put a couple in and around the Animal, but in such a way that it does not touch the animal so that it can burn the skin.

Here are a few resources:

713-468-8972 - TWRC/HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY

Download the free app Animal Help Now! And that will help you find a rehabilitator close to you.
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What a well done article on the plight of our wildlife here in Denton! Thank you Christian for shining this spotlight! Let’s not forget that there are literally 5-6 neighborhoods on “fire” right now fighting to keep their green spaces and tree canopy. I am ashamed at some of our Councilmembers who aren’t voting appropriately on these issues and who feel that what is happening is “progress”. Those two Councilmembers took real estate and developer money. Let’s remember that please. Northeast Denton/Hartlee Field. Northlakes. Southeast Denton. South Bonnie Brae. And now, right around the corner from me, Calhoun middle school area. Oh let’s not forget the devastation called Rayzor Ranch where the last vestige of jackrabbits eak out their existence amid scrub brush where the last of the development is about to hit. Luxury apartments that literally no one can afford. No houses to buy here except you can lease them (this effectively demolishes the middle class btw). Denton is home to one of the most extensive and vital avian migration flyways in the world and we are removing the habitat they need to rest, recharge and keep flying. If ever there were a time to raise your voices now is it.

A wildlife rehabber in Denton battles urbanization, encroaching development to rescue animals Baby raptors in need of a home, turtles with fishing lures in their heads, jackrabbits and cottontails in need of a home: Diana Leggett has seen it all as an

Hoppy Fourth of July!!!
Darling photo courtesy of the infamous BunHatter Cecilia Harris!!!

It’s that time!! Time for my birthday fundraiser for WildRescue, Inc./Rabbit Rescue!!! This year I chose not to use FB as it takes 3-4 months to receive the funds. This year I am giving you the ability to donate directly thru:

Dr Rogers: (469) 225-5885 (just call and put $ on our bill!!)
PayPal: [email protected]
Zelle: 940-442-8289 (Diana Leggett)
Venmo: -leggett (profile pic is a bunny)
Check: made out to WildRescue, Inc. - address is 1019 Aileen Street, Denton TX 76201

I will keep you updated on how much has been raised!
Over 800 forms of wild things have come into the Rescue so far this year!!

Post a pic of the wildlife you have brought to me or the bunny you have adopted!!

Let’s raise enough to replenish the good Sam fund at Dr Rogers, pay for medical supplies, new equipment, formula, and all that great stuff!! My birthday is June 29th - let’s see how much we can raise!! ♥️🎂🐇

When you contact a wildlife rehabilitator (good for you!!) we will ask certain questions. It is not meant to be invasive - the questions are meant to give us key details which will result in the best care possible for the animal in need. Be brief in your texts and use the questions below to tell us what is going on.

What city are you in?
Please send a picture of the animal
Is it injured?
Do you know what injured it?
Have you touched it with your bare hands? (For rabies vector species)
Do you have it contained?
Is it on heat?
Can you transport it?

These are vital and seriously important questions that will help us guide you to the closest rehabilitator and also help us determine what is crucial and best for the animal.

What is your mantra?
Shoebox (or size appropriate box) lined with a clean towel or tshirt
Standard non-auto shutoff heating pad set on low
Place in a bathroom you are not using

Why? Because darkness, warmth and containment are vital to the stabilization of the animal you have.

Don’t feed whatever it is unless you are directed by an experienced wildlife rehabilitator.

Animal Help Now! Is the very best free app you should download and utilize.

Interested in helping? Contact me at 940-442-8289 (text only please)

Now let’s go save some lives!!!

Awesome graphic of what to do if you find a fledgling. Bird’s growth are know as:
Egglet/hatchling
Nestling
Fledgling
Juvenile

Fledglings are often awkward and may appear injured when they’re not. The parents teach them how to fly and hip-hop them up into bushes and trees. Some species stay with their parents much longer than others like Mockingbird and Blue Jays. Two very intelligent species!

I recommend that you download the free app Animal Help Now! so that you can locate a federally permitted rehabilitator near you. And of course you can always text me at 940-442-8289.