WildCare admits a surprising number of animals entangled in soccer netting. Soccer goal netting is thick and durable, and it's always hung at either end of a wide-open grassy field. If you've never walked a soccer pitch at dawn or dusk, you may not realize how much...

It was a bat emergency in Bakersfield. WildCare's Director of Animal Care, Melanie Piazza received a call on Saturday morning that hundreds of baby Mexican Free-tailed bats had fallen from their roost under a freeway overpass. The temperatures in Bakersfield reached...

WildCare's Wildlife Hospital is at its busiest right now, but our team is never too busy to help an animal in need! A panicked pedestrian came to WildCare's front gate, pointing at the creek behind him and saying that there was a skunk with a trap on her foot dragging...

At WildCare we are always impressed at the lengths to which raptor parents will go to raise their young. In the week before Father's Day, our thoughts have turned especially to raptor dads who work tirelessly to catch and bring food to their always-hungry chicks. The...

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...

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 their young.  The...

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 to get in,...

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...

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 one's arrival on...

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 down past...