Wild Baby Rescue Center

Whoa, it's been busy lately at WBR. Today I started by making up the squirrel dishes for the ones outside which have all been released and the 4 in the barn. We continue to feed and leave the doors open to all the outside cages so that the squirrels can venture out and then come back into their nesting boxes until they find somewhere to live in the wild. I also made up Rafiki's bowl of peanuts, carrot, apple, peach, and kale, along with another bowl with a jar of applesause and formula mixed together. Then I went down to the barn to clean the barn squirrel's cage out and give them their food and new water. A new fawn was brought in Friday that has head trauma from being hit by a car but he's doing well. His IV was taken out today because he is eating well and definitely active because he's already jumped out of his playpen he's been in. We are also up to 14 baby squirrels which are all in an incubator and  fed every 3 hours. Then I got to learn how to tube feed opossums! We have four babies that need to be tube fed. The tube is lubricated and put down their mouth to the point of the black line of the tube, then we use the syringes that we use to feed baby squirrels to connect to the tube and give them 3 each. Then the tube is slowly pulled out and they are done. It was a lot easier then I thought, but the first opossum I had would not cooperate at all. After the oposs' were fed the baby squirrels were fed again. A humane society called today and were going to bring a few opossums, one with babies, a fawn, and a squirrel in today but they did not get there by the time I left so I will see them tomorrow. We got all the cages ready to house them so that didn't need to be done when the animals got there.

New fawn "Bumper"

Baby Squirrel

One of the opossums that gets tube fed