Care for AWARE's Ambassador Animals

Thank you for your support of our ambassador animals! It's been a uniquely challenging winter, as temperatures plunged and our central heat went out and stayed out for 6 long and frigid weeks. Because of your support, we were able to arrange space heaters and devise a careful monitoring system to keep them working safely throughout the outage. And when it was coldest - 9 degrees on 12/23, we were able to keep the center tolerably warm as we brought all the ambassadors indoors, even the ones that normaly do fine with their heatlamps outside. The only exception was the bobcats, who have heatlamps, straw nesting, and do well even in frigid cold. Thank you for your support!

I'm pleased to share that we are in the process of adding two new ambassadors to our roster - a non-releasable groundhog and a non-releasable vulture. We are still selecting a name for the groundhog, while the vulture has received the name "Carrie" as in carrion. Carrie came to us after becoming entangled in carpet fibers in the warehouse where his nest was when he was born. He lost a toe but otherwise recovered. Without that toe he can't make it on his own so he stays with us permanently. The groundhog suffered from balance issues before treatement; they improved some but not enough to allow release. Your support makes caring for these animals possible - thank you!