Sleeping Time at the Rainbow Wildlife Rescue

The raccoons like to squeeze into the space between the fly screen and the hardware cloth and camo net and end up in the funniest positions!

Mary and Mo are 2 white winged doves that were raised and released here at the Rainbow Wildlife Rescue. But they are sticking around. Mary helps me raise other little doves and watches over them on the outside once released. Most of them left, but not Mary:

How to feed an Orphaned Infant Squirrel

Warning! It is illegal in most US States to be in the possession of a wild squirrel. By law you are required to turn it over to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator!

This movie is intended for those folks that are not bound by US law and want to help out a little baby that otherwise will slowly die.

For more information on orphaned squirrels, please go to www.squirrel-rescue.com, www,rainbowwildlife.com and visit our Pets and Wildlife Forum for more support and advice at www.petsandwildlifeforum.com

Have you been kissed by a Raccoon today yet?

I have! Annie is such a sweetheart:

Annie's Introduction, 6 orphaned Raccoons growing up

We have a newbie at the Rainbow Wildlife Rescue! Annie is a 10 weeks old raccoon that has been living with a family in a house since she was found at the age of 1 week. She has never seen another raccoon or even was outside for long.

It is my job now to get her used to her own kind and more independent of humans, so they all can be eventually released back into the wild.



Here a couple of funny snapshots I took yesterday. This is where most of the raccoons sleep at night. It's too hot up there during the day hours:

Orphaned Raccoons learn how to fish

I added some live minnows to the pool yesterday afternoon and watched them having fun:

Emergency Baby Songbird Food

I have received many baby birds this year that have been fed the wrong stuff in the wrong way and as a result, the bird died.

In order to prevent that, I have made a short video on how to mix up the right baby bird food from dry kitten chow.

There are variations to it, for example you can use dog food too if you don't have kittenfood handy, or use calcium powder instead of cuttle bone, and it's ok to leave out the bird vitamins if you don't have any at the moment.

If you have questions, please join our Pets and Wildlife Forum and ask them there.

Raccoon Feeding Time

Abi cracks her first egg; Ian invents the self-feeding station deluxe, and Sara gets hooked on grapes! You've seen it here first!

The SELF-FEEDING STATION DELUXE:

Doves, Opossums and a Bunny

To continue from the previous post, here are pictures of the doves that are growing up at the Rainbow Wildlife Rescue. The 3 white-winged doves and one mourning dove are sharing the enclosure with 3 baby opossums and my bunny Max.

All critters are co-existing just fine:

Here is Mary, the oldest dove that keeps coming back to help care of the little ones:

(click on the picture to see a larger version of it!)






The mourning dove and her buddy, another white-winged dove:


And the smallest baby:


Down in the corner you can see Max, who has a way with birds!


Above him you see this squirrel house:


If you look inside, you won't see squirrels, but these 3 critters:


Ohoh, they saw us and think we are bringing them some food!




This is what they looked like when I got them with their eyes still closed. One didn't make it: