JJ Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
JJ Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, is a 501C3 Non-profit agency that is State licensed for the rescue and rehabilitation of orphaned and injured wildlife. Our programs are designed to help injured and orphaned wild animals recover in a safe environment while getting the medical treatment and life skills that they will need so they can be released back into the wilderness. Here at JJ Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, we know that sometimes all it takes to change the world is a little support. We are volunteers determined to make an impact. We specialize in the rescue and rehabilitation of small wild mammals Such as raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, skunks, bobcats, and much more. The fundamental goal of our efforts is to ensure that everything possible is done to give wildlife their best chance of a healthy life in their natural environment. With our organization’s mission always in mind, we strive to find new strategies for dealing with this challenge. Advocacy is something that we take very seriously, and our team is working each and every day to make a positive impact. Contact us to learn more about saving our native wildlife and our commitment to this cause. At JJ Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, we are dedicated to stepping up our efforts in addressing this issue. Support is by no means an easy feat, but through cooperation and community empowerment we believe we can facilitate progress in this area. We are always striving to make a difference, and invite you to learn more and lend your support.
The Feisty Raccoon
They may inhabit a tree hole, fallen log, or a house's attic. Females have one to seven cubs in early summer. The young raccoons often spend the first two months or so of their lives high in a tree hole. Later, mother and children move to the ground when the cubs begin to explore on their own.
Raccoons are omnivores, meaning they will eat both meat and vegetables. They like grasshoppers, nuts, berries, mice, squirrels, and bird eggs. They are nocturnal and search for food at night. Raccoons are opportunistic feeders and are well known by people for their skillful attempts at stealing food from garbage cans in parks and neighborhoods. Raccoons are able to get food that other animals cannot because they have nimble, almost hand-like paws that can grasp at tree branches, nuts, fruits, and even the lids of garbage cans.
Seeing an adult Raccoon during the day doesn’t always mean it is rabid! They could very well be a hungry or a Mother Raccoon looking for food for her babies.
Fun Facts:
•The Raccoon's Latin name lotor means "a washer," referring to the habit of washing their food before they eat it.
•Raccoons can sleep for days or weeks, but are not true hibernators.
Raccoons are nocturnal and seldom active in the daytime
Raccoons are nocturnal and seldom active in the daytime
Did you know
That with the weather being so unpredictable that baby season is almost year round. The weather can cause breeding patterns to change and this is when Rehabbers are the busiest.
We work solely on your donations to help feed, provide blankets and heating pads, and provide safe enclosures for the Injured and Orphaned animals. With the weather having so many ups and downs in temps our baby season has extended depleting our inventory even more. This is where you come in! We have provided 2 wish lists with our constant needs and picking 1 or a few items would greatly help with continue care for them.
This is the pre-release phase. Once the wildlife has gotten to a healthy stage they are moved to an area where human contact is very minimal and they learn to be outdoors in there own element. This minimizes imprinting on humans. Once they have been in this area awhile and we feel they are ready the gate will be opened to set them free.
These animals require 24 hour care!
What to do if you find a wild animal
It is important to differentiate between a situation for a young animal that is normal, and one where intervention is needed, because a baby’s natural parents are always the best option to raise that animal and give it the best chance of normal behavior and survival. Getting involved where help is not needed can be very detrimental to the health of these wildlife babies.
Finding baby rabbits in a nest without the mother is often normal, since the mother will only return at dusk and dawn to feed them.
If the animal has been in the mouth of a cat or dog, help is always needed – even if there are no obvious injuries.
Signs of injury or illness may include visible wounds, flies around the animal, lethargy, minimal response to stimulation, or being cold and alone. In this case always contact a local rehabber.
If intervention with a wild baby animal is needed, it should be placed in a pet carrier – or box with air circulation holes – in a warm, dark, and quiet environment, and then transferred to a wildlife professional as soon as possible.
Do not provide food or water to the animal unless specifically instructed by a wildlife rehabilitator or veterinarian. It is illegal to care for or keep a wild animal without the proper license – it is not safe for the person or for the animal.
Bobcats are solitary animals. Females choose a secluded den to raise a litter of one to six young kittens, which will remain with their mother for 9 to 12 months. During this time they will learn to hunt before setting out on their own.
Bobcats can kill prey much bigger than themselves, but usually eat rabbits, birds, mice, squirrels, and other smaller game. The bobcat hunts by stealth, but delivers a deathblow with a leaping pounce that can cover 10 feet.
Baby Squirrels are so sweet and loving when they are this small but they require a lot of care! It is worth all the effort when you see them released back in their own habitat
Never fear the Opossum is here!
Opossums are marsupials (mammals with a pouch in which they carry their young), a primitive group of mammals found most commonly in Australia. Kangaroos, koalas, and wombats are other well known marsupials. Opossums are the only marsupials in North America.
As long as they are kept out of human homes, not cornered, and their interaction with pets is limited, opossums are not dangerous. If an opossum finds its way into your house, stay calm, close surrounding interior doors, leave the room, and let the animal find its own way out through the pet door or an open door or window. If necessary, gently use a broom to coral the opossum outside. Do not corner an opossum, thereby forcing it to defend itself.
Opossums are omnivores and survive by eating a variety of foods. The primary sources of sustenance are small rodents, insects, worms, slugs and snails, frogs and birds. Additionally, opossums eat vegetables, berries, fruit, garbage, nuts, pet food and bird seed.
Some news on the cutest little stinkers!
Occasional skunk sightings in a neighborhood are not a cause for alarm. Because skunks are generally easy-going, they will not intentionally bother people. In fact, skunks may benefit humans by eating many insects and rodents many regard as pests.
Skunks who have wandered into a garage can simply be allowed to wander back out by making sure the door is open before dusk. Skunks are nocturnally active, so opening the door at dusk and closing it later in the evening is likely to be a solution to this problem.
It is important to make sure the skunk has not been coming and going for long enough to have established a den and given birth, and that any accessible foods (bags of bird seed, for example) have been moved and secured in tightly sealed containers.
Even though skunks are mostly active at night, they sometimes look for food by day—particularly in the spring, when they have young and may be extra hungry. Don’t be concerned if you see an adult skunk in the daytime unless they are also showing abnormal behaviors:
Limb paralysis, Circling, Boldness or unprovoked aggression, Disorientation, staggering, Uncharacteristic tameness.
Don’t approach the skunk yourself. Call your local animal control officer, wildlife rehabilitator, health department, or police department for assistance.
Here is where you can help!
There are so many things that are needed while animals are being rehabilitated and during pre-release. You can either click the supply list buttons throughout the webpage or you can email us directly for items we do not have listed. The lists change frequently due to what stock we have on hand so always check back!
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