It’s World Snake Day! 🎉 🐍 We love the sneks, danger noodles, and noperopes of the world and have had the honor of rehabilitating two of them (and also hosting several wild noodles on our properties)! This fellow, Raphael, was a kingsnake admitted earlier this year after being tangled in garden netting and getting himselfContinue reading “Happy World Snake Day”
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Skunks Spray at Death— Killing them Won’t Help
Common sense isn’t always common. 🤦 So many of our skunk patients this year were orphaned when their mothers were killed by people who didn’t want themselves or their pets sprayed. And of course, most of the people who killed the mother skunks got sprayed while doing it. Being sprayed by a skunk isn’t theContinue reading “Skunks Spray at Death— Killing them Won’t Help”
All About Cooters
After we admitted Opal, our second river cooter patient, we saw a lot of incredibly immature, suggestive, and even offensive comments. We loved all of them. Yes, there really are turtles called cooters. That’s their actual name. Tennessee has tons of cooters. Specifically, we’re home to the subspecies known as the Eastern river cooter. It’sContinue reading “All About Cooters”
Don’t Give Breast Milk to Wild Animals
Yes, this is apparently necessary to say. 🤦🏻♂️ Every wildlife rehabilitator has at least one story about a baby animal that arrived critically sick after being fed human breast milk. And yes, some people have fed it right from the tap. 😳 Breast is best— as in, human breast milk is best for human babies,Continue reading “Don’t Give Breast Milk to Wild Animals”
10 Reasons You Don’t Want a Pet Bobcat
We know, we know! You would die for T’challa and you’d give your right arm (literally— he would facilitate it) to have a T’challa of your own. But not so fast! Before you go out looking for a derpy bobkitten of your own, please consider this: T’challa is dangerous. He’s tame and he’s slow butContinue reading “10 Reasons You Don’t Want a Pet Bobcat”
Raising a Fawn Can Go Terribly Wrong
We get an alarming number of calls this time of year with variations of this story: “I found a baby deer by itself. I went to the feed store and got all the stuff to take care of it. It’s been living in my house for two weeks. Now it’s weak. I think it’s dying.Continue reading “Raising a Fawn Can Go Terribly Wrong”
Why Rehabilitators Need You to Transport Animals
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 reasonContinue reading “Why Rehabilitators Need You to Transport Animals”
Why Vaccinate Wildlife?
“Why vaccinate wildlife?” This is a question we hear a lot, and it’s fair enough. After all, animals don’t get vaccines in the wild. We like to put it this way: imagine a pandemic that is nearly 100% fatal and is as contagious as the common cold. Imagine it is contagious for about a weekContinue reading “Why Vaccinate Wildlife?”
10 Cool Facts About Armadillos
We ❤️ armadillos, especially our current nine-banded armadillo patient, Myron! Here are some especially cool and weird facts about these especially cool and weird animals. Armadillos have some of the largest penises, in proportion to their body size, of any mammal. Their penises are about 30-60% of their total body length. That’s the equivalent ofContinue reading “10 Cool Facts About Armadillos”
Beaver or Groundhog?
Beavers and groundhogs get mixed up often! It’s led to a few funny interactions. Once, we showed up to save a “beaver with something wrong with its tail,” only to find that the only thing wrong with her was that she was a groundhog— not meant to have a flat tail! Another time, a callerContinue reading “Beaver or Groundhog?”
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