Apr 19, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
Five baby skunks arrived at the Wildlife Hospital after being rescued from a freeway on-ramp! Fortunately a driver saw the five little skunks, tails high, marching up the on-ramp and managed to catch them before they got into oncoming traffic. Skunks at this age are...
Apr 18, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
Although Great Horned Owls are very good parents, they aren’t exactly champion nest builders. In fact, these large owls don’t even build their own nests– they take over the already-built nests of other birds like hawks or ravens in which to raise...
Apr 3, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
A mother Mallard leads her ducklings to water as soon as possible after they hatch, but the water source she chooses isn’t always safe. This duckling’s mother led him and his siblings to a swimming pool where, unfortunately, it was easy for the ducklings...
Mar 20, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
These baby Virginia Opossums came to WildCare after a very traumatic experience: their mother wandered too close to a road, and was killed by a car. Astonishingly, although not all of her babies survived, these four baby opossums managed to live through the collision...
Feb 27, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
It’s not exactly unusual for WildCare to admit our first tiny, pink baby squirrel in the month of February, but it’s not the norm either!WildCare admits over 80% of our patients between April and August, most of them orphaned baby animals. This little...
Jan 18, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
If you just glance at this pigeon patient in WildCare’s Wildlife Hospital, it looks like he is missing the top part of his beak. However, with a closer look you can see that the top beak section is not actually missing. It has been forcibly folded inward and...
