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Shhhh don’t tell CritterCampMom but we Critters are sneaking onto her computer because we need to talk to you about Mother’s Day.

She is mom to all 200+ of us and all we can give her is love and gratitude for saving our lives and caring for us. ‘Hey we give her poop too’ chime in the ferrets, ‘us too’ say the hedgehogs and foxes. Yes yes we all give CritterCampMom poop, not sure if that makes her happy, but she is glad when it’s “good’ poop. Not sure what that’s about…. Anyway, as we were saying…. ‘Hey I give her kisses’ adds Moose the ratty, ‘me too’ says Aries the ferret, and then the rabbits start in – ‘hey we give her scratches & bites when she trims out nails’- That doesn’t count rabbits! ‘Yeah yeah fine’ they say. Tod and Zorro pipe in with ‘we help mom eat donuts, oh and ice cream too, and peanut butter, and…’. Ok Ok you guys settle down. Old Mister Wiley feebly mentions that he allows CritterCampMom to kiss and love on him, Bunny and Ivix the fennec foxes agree they do too. Baritone says ‘yeah she gets me too but I can’t stand it and I thump at her after.’  Gino the guinea pig says ‘I may be new here but it seems like we all have a pretty great life because of this CritterCampMom that squeals at how cute I am.’ Gemini the chinchilla says ‘she saved my leg, and my life’, more add ‘me too me too’.  Well what we want to say is what CritterCampMom really needs for Mother’s Day is to help get our vet bill paid down and have some money for supplies to feed all of us bottomless pits, oh yeah and for the stuff to clean up all that poop we mentioned earlier.  She’s been sick for awhile now too and that worries us, we know she’d feel better if she didn’t have to worry so much about this silly stuff you call money. So we’re asking you humans out there to please help, even just a few of your  dollars adds up and we know it would make her happy. Thank you from the Critters at Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary!

Critter Camp's newest rescues include Petey a 30-year-old cockatiel whose owner went into a nursing home. ( Cockatiels live up to about 30 so he is truly very old!) He is doing great in our little flock with his new friends Kiddo & Sam.
Another new arrival is JoJo a little sugar glider whose cagemate died and was not eating because she was so lonely. Her owner is going off to college and thought it would be better to place her than to try to find another glider to be her friend and try to take them to school where he would not have room or time for them. She has fit right in with our colony of girls- her new friends Sugar, Cinnamon, Nutmeg & Lil Miss have accepted her too!

And finally, we took in Baritone- a tiny dwarf bunny that is 2 1/4 pounds of pure demon towards people. Poor little guy was part of a group of 40 rabbits dumped in a shelter in Michigan by a breeder, then since he was not handleable he was sent to another rescue in Wisconsin with a great track record for taming down bunnies. Unfortunately, even after months of work Little Baritone would not respond accept with deep strong bites! So here he is in Illinois in Critter Camp's free range Bunny Haven and he is ruling the roost! All of our current rabbits are human aggressive but that makes them more likely to get along with other bunnies.

Critter Camp was also recently featured on the site "Only in Illinois" It's a great article! http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/illinois/exotic-animal-sanctuary-il/

CritterCampMom had her first shot in her eardrum yesterday to try to get these horrible meniere's attacks under control. She can have up to 4 shots a year for 2 years, then the entire inner ear has to be removed if she isn't better. So here's hoping! No matter what the rescue goes on and thrives and will continue to move forward!

Now we NEED your support! Any amount helps! Please give if you can and share! Thank you!!!

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