Reptile Rescue

Baby Maui is several months old now and is gaining confidence to fly more and more each day. But, his favorite is to be in the water. See one of the first videos of him when he was just a tiny gosling here: https://rumble.com/vgy7c9--the-cutest-sleeping-baby-goose-.html Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please give, and help provide medical care and sanctuary for wildlife and many exotic animals who have no one else to help them. This rescue is funded entirely on donations, and what comes directly from my own pocket. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and the donors who believe that these animals need help. Your support helps keep the doors open and one more animal to be saved.🐤 🐢 🦎 🦆 🐇 🐁 🐟 You can help by making a donation today. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Feeding the sweet Prairie Dogs (squirrels) which are unfortunately held captive by this city's gooberment. I led an effort a few years ago which stopped the city when they were in the process of exterminating many hundreds of these prairie dogs in this park, and forced them to instead contract with a lady named Lynda Watson to live trap and relocate them. I was here and followed closely along with Lynda during her work, and I can say she did seem to care about them and use reasonable care for their safety, but as to where they really ultimately went, I can't be for sure, because she wouldn't tell me, and she is closely affiliated with another person named Gena Seaburg (sp?) who is unquestionably involved in export sales of prairie dogs overseas as exotic pets. The city left a few families alive in the enclosure behind a new wall they erected, with a 6ft. concrete footer...which the doggies had already tunneled out of in only a few months. I still come here from time to time to check on them and to make sure they have some good food and that no one is being cruel to them, and that the city is not planning any more culls. I was here every day, sometimes several times a day, for many months to protect them from the city and to put anything they were doing on social media to dissuade them from the bad PR. I made a lot of enemies with local authorities over it, and I don't give one little phuck that I did. I spent a lot of time with these critters trying to protect them that year, and I still take what happens to them very personally and take it as my responsibility to come look in on them every chance I can. Your support helps keep the doors open and one more animal to be saved. 🐍 🐢 🦎 🦆 🐇 🐁 🐟 This rescue ended last month almost $700 short of meeting the expenses. You can help by making a donation today, so that I can keep helping those animals that have no one else who will help them. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and less than a dozen recurring donors who believe that these animals need help... PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Did you think Roadrunners were just the stuff of myth and cartoons? Nope, they're really real, and can be seen from time to time in Texas and other parts of the western US. They don't run as fast as the one on the cartoon, but they're often seen running down the lonely back roads and desert highways in the search for bugs or small lizards, and this is where they get their name. They can fly too, but this is not how they get around or spend most of their time. The one time I saw a roadrunner flying very much, it was because he was trying to get away from a pair of Mocking Birds who were chasing him away from their nest. Your support helps keep the doors open and one more animal to be saved. 🐍 🐢 🦎 🦆 🐇 🐁 🐟 This rescue ended last month almost $700 short of meeting the expenses. You can help by making a donation today, so that I can keep helping those animals that have no one else who will help them. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and less than a dozen recurring donors who believe that these animals need help... PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

A full review of the "Ratinator" live trap, which I purchased last year, after first balking at spending the $60 that it sold for. I was doubtful that it would live up to the high purchase price and was anticipating returning it within the 30-day window to get my money back. However, this trap has been a colossal YUGE success in the numbers of rats that it has caught, which could be spared and released away from the home without having to kill them. On the first deployment of this trap I wasn't catching much, and I wasn't impressed at first. But it just repositioning to a better area and the rats overcoming their suspicion of it, and after a couple of days I caught 18 rats in a single night! Since then, I have continued to occasionally catch 6 here and 8 there over a couple of days. It goes in cycles, where they get suspicious of it for a while after some rats are caught, and they avoid it for a time. But they soon forget and the temptation for easy food is too much for them to pass up. This load of 12 were captured over two nights, after I recently redeployed it to a new area in the backyard, after some period without use. This thing has more than paid for itself because it's really hassle-free, is easy to transport the rats once they're caught, easy to release them, and it has a very large capacity. Just ensure that you check the trap every day for rats and give them food, water, and shade from the sun if you are not going to release them right away. Rats deserve compassion and humane treatment too. They're very intelligent and capable of loving people, and I never forget that when dealing with them, because I have raised White Bellied Roof Rats as orphans. I had one named "Roofus" who lived for almost 5 years as an educational animal, and the kids loved him, and I currently have a second one that I raised, named "Greedo". They are capable of being just as hand tame and loving as any fancy rat that is sold as a pet. Your support helps keep the doors open and one more animal to be saved. 🐍 🐢 🦎 🦆 🐇 🐁 🐟 This rescue ended last month almost $700 short of meeting the expenses. You can help by making a donation today, so that I can keep helping those animals that have no one else who will help them. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and less than a dozen recurring donors who believe that these animals need help... PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Tonka is an African Spurred Tortoise (G. sulcata) and his species lives in the mostly arid sub-Saharan grasslands of the middle of the continent. Like many tortoises from very dry environments, he's used to going a very long time without water, so he often will only drink 2-3 times a year. Although he does sometimes like to be hosed down when it's hot, or to have a mud wallow available to sit in. I ended last month nearly $700 underwater on expenses for this rescue. You can help by making a donation today, so that I can keep helping those animals that have no one else who will help them. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and less than a dozen recurring donors who believe that these animals need help... PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Yesterday's intake. A seriously injured and crippled juvenile female Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus). 😢 She was often seen around the person's home in recent months, until her dog finally had success in attacking her. They've had her for about a week, without medical treatment or food, but say they weren't able to find me until yesterday. IDK. Despite the fact that plenty of unethical people in other organizations around here will sandbag animals and not tell the public that a reptile rescue even exists here, I don't really think they searched that hard until yesterday, when they feared she was finally on her way out. Because, I have been told over and over by other locals that they are finding me one way or another when they actually search for a reptile rescue, or, they ask Kemp Wildlife and are referred to me that way. A lot of people just think they can do things on their own and don't get serious about trying to find the animal experienced help until it's too late. She has visible wounds on her chest, suspected spinal trauma, and rear limb paresis, which is limiting her ability to walk. She can move her back legs when sufficiently stimulated though, so I'm hopeful that she can recover most of her mobility with anti-inflammatories and time in a protected environment. Since she hasn't eaten in at least a week, she will have to be assisted with tube fed nutrition. I ended last month nearly $700 underwater on expenses for this rescue. You can help by making a donation today, so that I can keep helping those animals that have no one else who will help them. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and less than a dozen recurring donors who believe that these animals need help... PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Precious, my very old Three Toed (and Three Footed) Box Turtle, enjoys some time walking around at the park yesterday evening, as I fed the geese. She's always been a good girl, whom I can take with me anywhere and just set her on the ground, and she never goes far. Precious is likely the oldest living thing at the rescue now, including myself. I rescued and rehabbed her months before this rescue was even a thought in my mind. I estimate that she is over 50 years old, but I can't know for sure just how old. I can just say that I estimated her to be somewhere around 40 years old, when I rescued her 15 years ago, in 2006. The rest of her story: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation/show/60ef3efa1942c81cc4e383e1 Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Gimpy and friendly backyard skunk, affectionately called "Snunk", takes a cool drink from the bowl belonging to the goose and hens. They aren't sure what to make of him, but they take care not to agitate him. 😄 Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Hopefully the last two orphaned baby bunnies to be raised for the year. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

A beaver who lives in the pond where I care for the resident geese. He is a herbivore and only eats the vegetation and is no threat to the baby geese, and the geese don't seem to mind him, as long as he doesn't get too close. Also, I release a baby snapping turtle who was lost, and watch as a Red Eared Slider picks up bits of food on the shore that were dropped by the geese. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Comparison between baby and adult Soft Shelled Turtles Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

After about a week of recuperation, she is released. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

After about a week of recuperation, she is being released today. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

#FishLivesMatter You can't practice "catch & release" if it's inhumane and your fishing ends up just killing the fish anyway that you didn't intend to keep. And you can't be humane if you're using barbed hooks. Barbed hooks are for children and women who can't land a fish otherwise, or for survival situations where you absolutely have to land the fish. An experienced angler engaging in recreational fishing doesn't have a legitimate reason to need a barb on their hook. It's inhumane, and it's not sporting. It makes your efforts too easy if the fish makes the slightest contact with your hook, and then gets hopelessly snared by it. Well, what sport is that? That you baited something that has a reverse facing barb on it, that it makes losing the fish nearly impossible? What a sport! Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

I received a crippled baby cottontail last night for treatment, with a possible spinal injury. It may have been dropped or stepped on by children who were found playing with the babies outside a local little league baseball field. Their nest had apparently been discovered, and they were disturbed when the children began playing with them. An on-looker noticed one of the babies was seriously injured, and took it from the children. There were reportedly 6 baby bunnies in total. After I received the injured bunny, who was dragging her hide legs, I went out to the ball field late last night and searched for the nest, in an attempt to verify the rest of them were safe and uninjured. There were no baby bunnies left in the nest, but about 20ft away, I discovered one very healthy and uninjured baby. It was trying to crouch down in the grass and hide, but it wasn't doing a very good job. I was able to walk right up to it and pick it up without struggle. So, it would benefit from coming back to the rescue for a little while to grow bigger. And, it's injured sibling I'm sure was happy to see a familiar face, and this will help give her strength and calm her from the stresses of captivity and needing to be handled for treatment. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

There was a bit of a plot twist in the end. LOL Change of plans. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

After every significant rain, I have to go down to this area and rescue a lot of animals that have been washed over a dam and into the storm drain system, where they will die. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

After every significant bit of rain, I have to go down to this area and rescue a lot of animals that have been washed over a dam and into the storm drain system, where they will die. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Pete now settling into his new home, far in the country. He seems much happier. When he was confined to trying to survive outside the IHOP, he was very nervous all the time and could not relax. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Baby goose, whom I incubated for several weeks and hatched at home after his egg was abandoned by his mom, sleeps soundly and chirps. ❤ He was named Maui, and later released to the wild: https://rumble.com/vll7r0--baby-goose-learning-to-fly.html Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please give, and help provide medical care and sanctuary for wildlife and many exotic animals who have no one else to help them. This rescue is funded entirely on donations, and what comes directly from my own pocket. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and the donors who believe that these animals need help. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

I visit Hillary on Mother's Day, and have the perfect present for her. One of her babies has been in rehab with me for the past week because his foot was injured, bleeding, and infected last weekend. ❤ Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation I am over $550 short on meeting the expenses from last month. Please give, and help provide medical care and sanctuary for wildlife and many exotic animals who have no one else to help them. This rescue is funded entirely on donations, and what comes directly from my own pocket. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and the donors who believe that these animals need help.Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

My rescue was recently called to help a baby opossum that had been taken in by the animal control department in the neighboring town of Iowa Park, Tx. The baby had been found by an elderly couple, who took it in for several days and tried to feed it, but did not understand its care. They soon contacted their local animal control department, which is more humane and compassionate than many of the others in the region, especially those in the bigger cities.The baby opossum was in good health, but could benefit from a couple of more weeks of growth and proper care, before being released back to the wild. I transported the baby to another rehabber in Wichita Falls, who already had a whole mess of baby opossums being raised. And if you've never seen and this many baby opossums, well you just don't know the cuteness you are missing! Except to see it here, of course! 😄 Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Pete, a Bantam roo, was reportedly living feral outside of the IHOP on SW Pkwy in WIchita Falls for more than a month. He would stroll between the IHOP and the Texoma Community Credit Union parking lots during the day as his territory, and the credit union staff would often feed him. Animal control attempted several times to catch him, and thankfully were unsuccessful, because roosters aren't allowed in the city and they have a reputation for killing them if they can catch them. Myself and a local fan decided to attempt rescue before he could be caught by animal control, or he was hit by a car or something. But trying to capture him in the daytime wasn't successful because he was too alert and active, and the area was too busy to have room to corner him. I decided to abort the attempts before he was harmed, and come back at night after I discovered where he was sleeping. I began leaving dried mealworms under the tree he roosted in, and I got familiar with his sleeping routine and returned one night to nab him. He is now already with his new home, with the local fan who first told me about his ordeal. She lives way outside of town near Seymour and she had been wanting to start keeping chickens anyway. No better time than right now, and to start out getting your roo established, and then bring him some girls to protect soon. 🐔❤ Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation I am over $550 short on meeting the expenses from last month. Please give, and help provide medical care and sanctuary for wildlife and many exotic animals who have no one else to help them. This rescue is funded entirely on donations, and what comes directly from my own pocket. There are no government grants. No corporate sponsors. Just me, and the donors who believe that these animals need help.Please donate, so I can keep helping them. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com Donate without a PayPal account at this checkout: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Several Canada goose eggs were orphaned when their mother abandoned her nest after a nearby fireworks display caused her to flee in fear. I placed them with another nesting goose who accepted them, but they were by that time more behind on development than her own eggs, and they were not ready to hatch by the time her other ones had hatched a few days ago. After they were again abandoned by the second mother, I brought them home to attempt to complete the incubation, and first candled them to see if the goslings inside were well developed and if they were alive. Movement could be seen in 3 of the eggs, but they appear to still be days away from being ready to hatch. 😄 Fingers crossed. 🤞🏻 Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please give, and help provide medical care and sanctuary for wildlife and many exotic animals who have no one else to help them. This rescue is funded entirely on donations, and what comes from my own pocket. There are no government grants and no corporate sponsors. Just myself and a few donors who believe in my work. PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com