Give Orphaned and Injured Wildlife a Second Chance

The winter has been a time of recharging the spirit as well as the facility. The lack of critters to care for allows us the time to fix and repair the facility so as to be ready for the next season onslaught of babies! It’s a time to laugh and enjoy each other in a way different from the day to daycare and nurturing of the babies in our charge. This winter season was spent on numerous projects both long in plans/hopes and necessary repairs to make us ready for the next season! Projects of note this year include: a retaining wall to prevent the constant erosion into our parking lot. Relocating our transition hutches (babies going from the nursery to a first step larger enclosure) to a single area, along a path - making a much easier organizational grouping for our interns and volunteers to deal with. And building a new bat enclosure to accommodate and not have to ship out our bat babies! While it may be quiet of baby noises, the sanctuary is never quiet inactive - it’s just a different vibe still focused on a single goal - rehabilitate wild animals!!! And toward that end - while we were in the midst of our yearly baby pool, deciding/picking the date of the first baby arrival - which has traditionally been a squirrel, so it’s called the squirrel pool - but nature has decided, in its “hey, not your categorizable way” that our first baby would be an eyes still closed baby red fox! We all lose the pool! But he’s here and he’s beautiful and he’s doing well, so Happy Almost Spring to All!! Ours has now officially started and it’s off we go ....