All About Exotic Wildlife

Yard sale items. Come check us out!

Come see us at the Harker Heights Petco today! We are taking donations for the wildlife rehab and have some special guests for you to see!

With the storms that have recently come through, please be on the look out for baby animals in need! Squirrels and birds may have fallen from trees, skunks may have been flooded out of their dens. If you find one that needs help, please contact us! (For birds, please contact Pam Dieckert (Belton) or All Things Wild in Georgetown)

Wishlist Wednesday, y'all! We still need Ultra24, KMR and Esbilac for these babies! Please check out the wishlist!

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It's wishlist Wednesday, y'all! Baby season is in full swing and we are in need of Esbilac, KMR and Ultra Boost 24! Please consider helping us out by getting something from our list for the wildlife!

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Baby season has begun! Donate or check out our wishlist!

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Please consider donating!

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Baby season is just around the corner! Please check out our wishlist and see if you can help us out!

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We had a blast sponsoring the Annual Turkey Shoot this past Sunday! Lots of fun was had! Look at all these happy turkey winners!

More donations just came in. There is a complete full size bed, some tables and lots of lamps and a wheel chair. Come check us out!

Some of the goodies available this weekend!

8-4 today & tomorrow

12560 E. FM 2510

All About Exotic Wildlife We are a team of volunteers that take in orphaned and injured wildlife for the purpose of returning t

Here are some of the items that you can find at the yard sale this weekend!

If anyone has a copy of today's Temple Daily Telegram, the wildlife rehab would like to have one. We made the front page!

We will be at the Mother Earth News Fair this weekend! Stop by and say hello!

We woud like to give a huge thank you to CARA for the box of goodies that was delivered to us today! These snuggies and sleeper sacks will be very welcome by orphaned babies in the next few months!

Come see us for the Harker Heights City Wide Yard Sale @ 12560 E FM 2410 Rd, Belton, TX 76513!

Help us raise money for wildlife rehab!!

https://www.harkerheights.gov/index.php/special-events-2

Special Events City of Harker Heights

Another excellent post from our fellow rehabbers at For Fox Sake!

We know this is weird. When you call 911 about an injured person, they send paramedics. When you call animal control about an injured stray dog, they send an officer. When you call a wildlife rehabilitator about an injured animal, they… ask you to capture it and bring it to them. Yes, seriously!

The reason ultimately comes down to funding, or rather, a lack thereof. When you call a rehabilitator, you’re likely picturing a huge, zoo-like rescue with on-site surgical suites, dozens of paid workers, and a fleet of marked vehicles they can send out to save any animal in need. Only two or three rehabilitation facilities in the entire country even come close to that. Most— including For Fox Sake— are run by one or two extremely busy, extremely tired people operating out of facilities built, literally, in our backyards.

Out of the hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation facilities in the country, only about 5% have any paid staff members at all, and most of those staff members are directors responsible for overseeing animal care, and are unable to leave their patients. During baby season, when we may be bottle-feeding dozens of animals and have many more in critical condition, leaving them unattended to drive across the state simply isn’t an option.

While a few rehabilitation facilities are lucky enough to have volunteers who can answer last-minute requests for transportation help, no rehabilitation facility we’re aware of has paid staff members that are able to set traps, check traps every few hours, or transport wild animals from Point A to Point B.

When an animal needs help, most rehabilitators simply have no choice but to enlist the help of the public. And yes, unfortunately, that might mean that we ask you to put on a pair of gardening gloves and pick up the baby skunk and put it in your car. Or to put the baby bird on your seatwarmer on the way here. Or to put the snake in a pillow case, and yes, we do understand you might be creeped out by snakes.

We know it’s nuts. But we don’t have a lot of other options, and we depend on everyday people like you to be the heroes the animals need until they make it to us safely. Please cooperate with your local rehabilitators to transport orphaned and injured animals. We’re all doing our best, but each of us has only two hands and 24 hours in each day!

An excellent explanation!

We’ve turned away over a hundred orphan raccoons this year. We hated it every time. And in more than half of these cases, finders have begged and pleaded, telling us that every rehabilitator they called has “refused to help,” and often accusing us and our colleagues of not caring.

We understand your pain and frustration, and we feel it too. Every rehabilitator would save every animal if we could. But it’s precisely because we want to save them all, that we have to have limits.

When rescues take in more animals than they can care for, that’s when it crosses the line from rescuing to hoarding. Overcrowding causes disease outbreaks, filth, aggression, and even cannibalism. If we had accepted every raccoon we’ve been called about into this small, home-based facility, it would be a cesspool of disease and filth and would not be kind or compassionate for the animals. Good rehabilitators know what their limits are and operate within those limits.

Even when we’re operating within our limits, we still barely stay on top of all the cleanings and feedings during the peak busy season. Raccoons, in particular, are very messy eaters and very messy poopers and carry a number of serious and highly contagious diseases, and we have to work our butts off to properly care for the ones we do accept into care. If we took five times this number of patients, we’d look less like a rehabilitation facility and more like a scene from a horror movie. We don’t want that, our supporters don’t want that, and the animals certainly don’t want that, either.

If you have found an animal in need of assistance and all of the rehabilitators you’ve called are unable to help, please be kind and patient. Please understand that they hate the situation just as much as you do, if not more. Please continue looking for help through AHnow.org and your state’s wildlife officers until you’ve exhausted every possible option. Every rehabilitator you call is doing their best, but we sometimes have no choice but to say “no.”

Please help us raise the funds to get this new incubator from Babywarm!! It will allow us to help even more of our youngest, most critical wildlife!! Just click on the link below to donate, or at least share to get the word out! We have 30 days to raise the funds!

https://www.babywarm.org/rehabber/mariah-o/

Mariah O. - BabyWarm I had done kitten rescue for multiple years before I officially got into wildlife. I had a friend who was a certified rehabber and was overwhelmed with baby season, so I offered to help. I became a sub-permittee because although I love to do this, I teach and do not have be a full-time licensed reha...

Come on out and join us!! Today through Sunday 9-4. There's tons of items and new things will be put out daily! Everything is negotiable! All items are for donation to wildlife rehab!! Here's a look at some of what we have!

12560 E FM 2410 Rd, Belton, TX 76513
Look for the yard sale signs along 2410 (Knight'sWay)!

Please share and help get the word out!!

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I think this post from For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue says it all! Graciously shared with their permission.

Three new intakes in 2 days! 1 more possibly coming in as they were only able to get 2 out of 3 siblings!

Would you consider donating or buying from our wishlist to help? These babies will need KMR formula, puppy chow and soft foods as they transition from formula to big kid food so they can get ready to wild up in an outdoor enclosure! Check out the links below:

Amazon Wish List
https://smile.amazon.com/hz/charitylist/ls/58CFOHPAUFNW/ref=smi_ext_lnk_lcl_cl

Paypal
paypal.me/aaewildlife

Help spread the word about this site. We need funds for wildlife upkeep. It's spring so animals are rolling in. Please lend a hand however you can.