Reptile Rescue

While "candling" a number of Great Plains Ratsnake eggs that were being incubated, I captured the movement of one of the baby snakes while still inside the egg! 😲 It was so cool! This video was shot in 2011, after a mother ratsnake which I had been called to rescue from someone's swimming pool, suddenly started laying eggs that night when she was in observation. She was soon released and her 18 eggs were incubated. All but one baby snake survived and hatched, and were later released in the same area. 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

My rescue baby hens, saved as chicks from the feed store when they were close to death and the store gave them up to me to see if I could save them. Of the 7 chicks that I brought home who had been shipped to the store during cold weather and fell ill, only these two survived. 😞 Brownie is believed to be a Belgian Mille Fleur d’Uccle & Silkie mix, and Cry Baby is a Bantam of some kind. I'm not quite a chicken expert yet. From what I have read of the Mille Fleur d’Uccle breed they have big personalities and are affectionate, quiet, seek attention and enjoy being held. That very much describes Brownie and they are said to be the perfect pet chicken. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please Give PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

This is Nubbie. While she waits for a routine examination, she examines a ladybug that was in a nearby vial 😄 But Nubbie can't have ladybugs, because they're toxic, as are fireflies. I found it in some clover that I had picked and was going to release it. Hopefully wth warming temperatures, Nubbie will soon have plenty of harvester ants to keep her happy, which is their favorite food. Nubbie came last year from southern CA. after having lost her right forelimb to a predator or some accident. She was apparently also found in a stream where she almost drowned. None of the zoos I contacted in the area were willing to take her, and weren't even working with her species, to my surprise. I had her shipped here at my expense, for about $100 so that I could try to save her. She lost most of her arm after the bone and soft tissue continued to die back to where there was still good blood supply, but I was able to save her life and prevent a life-threatening infection. She has trouble moving well, and trouble getting her food. She needs assistance, but she is still hanging in there, and she tries. She wants to live. She'd have never been able to survive in the wild though. She can no longer really run, and just limps along and can't turn to the left very well. I've kept most of the native species of Horned Lizards, including some of the hardest there are to keep alive, but I've never kept her species before. She's a Coast Horned Lizard, and they're very similar in size, stature, and structure to the Texas Horned Lizard, but she's colored much differently, and her disposition is completely different. She's very mild, whereas almost all Texas Horned Lizards are very skittish and constantly stressed out. I'm well known in this area of husbandry and rehabilitation of these lizards, which I have been involved in since about 2002. I've even written a care and rehab manual on them which many zoos have used for years as a resource. The only species I don't have experience with is the Pygmy Short-Horned Lizard of the Pacific NW. Although I do like the opportunity to get experience now with the 7th of the 8 commonly recognized species native to the US, bringing her here was the last resort. I would have preferred a zoo there would take her and put her in a breeding program as one of their producing females, but they weren't even working on their own native CA. species! They were breeding Texas HLs though, but closest they come to CA. in the wild is SE Arizona! It was nonsensical. However, if Nubbie must remain a special needs case in captivity, then she is in one of the best places in the world for sanctuary for that, given my decades of experience with this species, and the availability to provide her specialized diet of harvester ants, which are also very common here in this part of Texas. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please Give PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Look what some stupid shitbag human DUMPED into the Prairie Dog enclosure @ Kiwanis Park! Some asshole piece of shit abandoned their pet GUINEA PIG in the Prairie Dog house! She was so scared! It took myself and a helper about 15-20 min of chasing her around on our stomachs under a heavily branched cedar tree to get her in a net. Thankfully, we got to her before one of the substantially larger and territorial Prairie Dogs (squirrels) did. She had no concept of running into a burrow though, because she's not a prairie dog. She was out in the open on the concrete footer of the enclosure wall when she was spotted, but then she ran under a very dense tree when the woman who called me tried to catch her. Since I got her home and she calmed down, she's been very cuddle-able. She's calm being held and squeaks like a little toy when being scratched or petted. Other than having a little crud in her ears and a little bit of a runny nose and sniffles (maybe from being abandoned overnight in the cold) she is otherwise healthy and fine. She's too clean to have been there very long. The moron who dumped her there probably did it yesterday or last night. If an adult was involved, boy I'd love to get my hands on them. The family who helped me catch her agreed to foster her until I could get her adopted to a permanent home. But after only one night with them, they decided they wanted to adopt her. ❤ They named her "Cali" because she's calico. As prep for adopting her out to them, I treated Cali with ivermectin for any parasites, and got her started on a week of enrofloxacin, because she had a small abrasion on her right forelimb, and some apparent dried blood in her ears. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please Give PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

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A baby cottontail and squirrel were both rescued on the same day last week, and they were soon joined by this baby chick who was given up by a local store because she could not properly use her legs and could not stand. They freely cuddled together to sleep, because they never cared what species the other was. They just wanted a littermate to cuddle with. Sadly, the chick grew weak over the past few days and passed last night despite my efforts to hand fed her from a syringe and give her physical rehabilitation to try to help her to stand. Subscribe and hit that Rumble + button! Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation And please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

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This adorable baby Fox Squirrel is just 4 - 5 week old. She was rescued after she lost her mom and then began wandering in search of her. If something tragic happens to mom and she doesn't make it home at the end of the day, her babies will start crying for her. As they get more hungry and realize their cries aren't working, they will usually fall out of the nest/tree while trying to find her. If their eyes are still closed their chances of surviving are very slim, unless a person or another nursing squirrel hears their cries and adopts them. If their eyes are open, like this girl, their chances are much better. Baby squirrels who have been orphaned or fallen out of their nests will often run to the first person they see, because they are looking for anyone to help them. We have rescued baby squirrels before who were too young to be on their own, but had ran straight to humans for help They seem to know that people are different and will likely help them. That's what happened in this case. This baby had been wandering and without a meal for more than a day. She was dehydrated and very thin. Her nest was not in the immediate area, as none of the nearby trees had leaves yet, and no dray (squirrel nest) could be seen in them. This means that she had wandered some distance trying to find her mother, or someone to help her. She could not have survived one more day alone. It was very fortunate for her that a young man happened to walk into his back yard at the right moment. She had climbed into a nearby tree, but when she saw him, she either fell or jumped down to get to him. He heard something land in the leaves behind him, and as he turned around he saw that she was running right to him. Thankfully, another family member knew of my rescue. ^_^ She will now almost certainly survive, will begin the weaning process in a few days when she is well hydrated and topped off on liquid nutrition, and will eventually be released back to the wild. She is being fed Fox Valley orphan baby wildlife powdered formula after being stabilized with 50% Pedialyte, amino acids, CMPK solution, and injectable calcium gluconate, dextrose, and Vit B complex. I am a wildlife rehabilitator with 15 years experience. Subscribe and hit that Rumble + button! Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation And please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Two orphans lost their mothers and all their siblings, and were rescued on the same day. They now comfort and snuggle to sleep with each other, because it's better to have some friend to snuggle with when you're this young, rather than no friend at all... Subscribe and hit that Rumble + button! Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation And please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

I was notified yesterday by a local supporter that a work crew with heavy machinery was digging out a ditch in their neighborhood that was a commonly known habitat for fish and turtles. They found one baby snapping turtle that had its skull crushed by the machinery and they presumed was dead, and another larger juvenile snapping turtle that had disappeared into the muddy water. With the help of their family, we saved a couple dozen fish. But after being there for about an hour, I was about ready to call it quits for the day, and assumed I wasn't going to find this snapping turtle they saw. Just as I was about to step out of the ditch, I reached down next to my boot and pulled this little snapper up 🙂 He had been next to my boot in reaching distance of where I had been scooping fish with a net in that spot for about 20 minutes. All the fish had been placed in a bucket and were immediately released at the private lake about a block away. There were catfish, carp, perch, and even a bass. The baby turtle that had been crushed was in fact still alive and responsive, but critically injured with a fractured skull and lower jaw. He's not likely to be able to survive such injuries though. The larger juvenile has a split in his upper jaw that runs into his sinus cavity, and his sinuses need to be flushed out to determine if it's an old or fresh injury from the excavation machinery, and what difficulty it may give him when released. It could cause water and mud to get directly into his nasal and sinus cavities and predispose him to recurring infections, or prevent him from breathing through his nose when he surfaces for air, which also predisposes him to aspirating water and getting respiratory infections, because in deeper water he wouldn't be able to easily raise his entire mouth out of the water to open it and breathe. Some water would flow in from the sides of his mouth at the same time he was trying to breathe. Please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. Many people follow, but very few contribute, and 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. Follow me on MeWe at: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Orphan baby cottontail is trying to learn to self wean as she tries clover for the first time. ^_^

Baby bunnies snuggle with orphaned baby squirrel, all picked up yesterday. Yesterday was a very bad day here, for many reasons. It started out early when I got messages for 2 cases of cottontail nests being hit by lawnmowers and weed eaters, with fatalities and injuries. In this case, only 2 survived of a litter of 5, after someone took a weed eater to a stand of cactus?? 😢 Momma bunny thought her babies should have been safe there. 3 died before I was contacted. I picked up 2 survivors, and one poor baby had one of her back legs completely sheared off. The finders didn't initially tell me her leg was severed, otherwise I would have come to pick her up immediately, and it might have made the difference in saving her life. I did everything I could, but she died just a few hours ago. I even gave her epinephrine and chest compressions to try to revive her. This is the time of year when this work is so depressing... Cottontail bunnies are one of the most difficult species of baby wildlife to save and keep alive long enough to weaning and release. They're incredibly fussy about eating, easily prone to stress and just going into shock and dying from the stress of being away from their mom alone. I know no wildlife rehabilitators who look forward to receiving baby cottontails or who regard them as easy. If you can save 50% of them, even when they are without traumatic injuries, then that's considered a very good success rate. I can usually save about 75% of them, if they get to me quickly enough, but it's very, very hard and time-consuming. Never delay if you find baby cottontails, and especially if they are injured. DO NOT try to raise them yourself. You are sure to fail if you aren't trained in how to keep them alive. Even the wrong formula can kill them. Contact a wildlife rehabilitator immediately. Only if the rehabber doesn't accept cottontails should you try to raise them yourself. Some rehabilitators won't accept cottontails because they've simply given up on trying to save them, but you should inquire and find a referral anyway, because an experienced rehabber is their best hope of surviving. 💔 To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

The water turtles are all quite active now and enjoying their fresh clean water, just changed since Spring came along and they've come out of their Winter dormancy. They're hungry, curious, and playful. There are Red Eared Sliders, Painted Turtles, and one Texas River Cooter living together. They all were either run over by cars, fell over the side of the spillway at the lake and injured themselves, were mauled by dogs or raccoons and lost parts, or were rescued from neglect cases or from being illegally traded as food items. They are fed more than simply pellets. They are regularly fed greens of all kind and they really love collards or dandelion. They also regularly get diced apples, sheet seaweed, duckweed, blueberries, strawberries, and other treats. There are 3 aquarium filters running right now, but this pond is normally filtered by a swimming pool pump with a submersible 12" dia. filter, but it's down because of a leak. Follow me on MeWe! https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please subscribe and hit that + Rumble button! And please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

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Canada geese can be very protective of their nests, but some children visiting this park chased them away by screaming at them and throwing objects at them until they had run them off the island and were able to raid the nest and steal her egg. One of the boys responsible was threatening to break the egg or throw it in the pond, but another child was able to get the egg away from him undamaged, and put it behind the concrete slab. This wasn't back in the nest where they had found it, but at least it was undamaged when I was able to catch up to them and ask what they did with it. Mom was happy to have her egg returned, and she had laid a second one after the first was stolen the day before. As of a week later, she has laid 5 so far. Baby gooses should follow in about 3 weeks. 😄 Wild migratory birds, like Canada geese, are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes it a federal crime to do what these children in fact did. In this case, I was happy to be able to return her egg to her while it was likely still unharmed and will be able to hatch. Please subscribe and hit that + Rumble button! Follow me on MeWe! https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Giving the "snunk" a bath 😄 He is affectionately called "snunk" for now. He was a very good boy and though he didn't like the water much at first and tried to get away, he quickly settled when he felt the warmth. He allowed a lather, rinse, and repeat. His tail had to be hand washed twice to get the dirt out of it. Now he's so soft and smells as good as a stinker can smell. Afterward, he was such a baby and loved being cuddled in the warm towel and was falling asleep. 😄 He was taken over to rehabber Sarah's last night for a visit and she agrees that he had to have known people before in some way. He must have been a rehab baby before or maybe someone else raised him and let him go. I've had many dealings with wild skunks before, and even picked up and held a baby skunk last year that I rescued from the storm drain. I've only ever been sprayed once. I've never had one bite me. But for an adult or juvenile skunk, at least they will normally stamp their feet at you and warn you by raising their tail. This little guy doesn't do any of that, but admittedly he hasn't been feeling well, which is why he was rescued. I held him last night and Sarah cleaned out gunk from his eyes and then cleaned his face, and he didn't like the baby wipe on his snout and he fussed a little, but still he didn't try to bite at all. At least we know at this point that he wasn't poisoned, and he doesn't have rabies or distemper or anything. I've changed his most likely diagnosis to MBD, because he is exhibiting the signs of arthritis and possible bone malformations and microfractures that have previously healed that are consistent with MBD. Which means, bottom line, that it makes it much more likely that he was being held in captivity by a human or at least fed by a human who didn't have a firm grasp of their nutritional requirements and was giving him some things that were deficient. A skunk that doesn't get enough sunshine or food items containing enough calcium and Vit D, they are very prone to bone pathology issues, commonly known as Metabolic Bone Disease. In layman's terms it's the animal equivalent of osteoporosis or rickets. It's something I'm very familiar with, because it's very common in reptiles that aren't raised correctly too. Please subscribe and hit that + Rumble button! Follow me on MeWe! https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Peanut Butter was raised as a pet by well-meaning people, but he was imprinted to be friendly to them, and he's hostile to other people because he's not afraid of them. He is being rehabilitated in his outdoor enclosure to not receive the affection from people in the hopes he puts more distance between himself and people when he is eventually released. But, so far, when he has escaped his enclosures twice since being turned over to rehab, he goes after people when he has the chance. Adults at least. He approached Sarah's children just to play on one occasion, but when he sees adults, he tries to bite. Hopefully, with a little more time and without him receiving the kind of attention as if he is a pet, he will be less inclined to come near people. He's only been in rehab a couple of weeks, if you don't count the times he was loose on the property after the first escape. :P Please subscribe and hit that + Rumble button! And follow me on MeWe! https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Precious is a very old Three-Toed Box Turtle who has been with me since 2006 and was one of the first animals I rescued and rehabbed, even before officially founding the rescue or regarding myself as a "rehabber". She suffered frostbite damage, shell infection, loss of a limb and infection of the limb wound when she was dragged up from hibernation underground by a predator that year. She recovered well and has been reliably healthy ever since, and is the most reliable turtle in hibernating and emerging first from hibernation every year. ^_^ Please subscribe and hit that + Rumble button! And follow me on MeWe! https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Snowy sleeps contently just outside my back window, waiting on me to appear. When he sees me, he slowly wakes and is shaking off his sleepy head ^_^ I would like to release him back to the lake because he has been here over a month, but his leg is still swollen and sometimes hurting him. I see him holding it up against his body when standing, and he never does with the other, so I will have to begin another kind of treatment to try to get better results this time. Last time I treated him for this condition, two years ago this past Christmas, it was also very stubborn and required a month of being on a rotation using THREE antibiotics and anti-inflammatory before he was good enough to release. Predictably, it's even more stubborn to treat this time... https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation Please consider contributing, like the mere dozen or so loyal supporters do every month, who have kept this rescue going for several years. To donate via PayPal: wfreptilerescue@gmail.com OR to donate without creating a PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WFReptileRescue@gmail.com

Test of injured skunk mobility after weaning from dexamethasone, but his ambulatory difficulties returned, so he was being placed on meloxicam, 0.2mg/kg for more extended anti-inflammatory relief.

Orphaned female Deer Mouse being raised to release in the Spring.

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In a little more than 30 min, you'll learn more about what MBD actually is and what to do about it, than you'll learn anywhere outside of veterinary school. And you'd spend a lot more time web searching it, reading websites, or reading through other people's posts on a forum than simply watching this video will take. This talk is not only applicable to all reptile keepers, but those who keep birds and other exotics or wildlife, such as opossums, skunks, raccoons, etc who also commonly suffer from rickets or MBD. There is a specific way to address possible MBD, preferably starting with blood labs with chemistries to determine the levels of Ca & P, as well as PTH in the blood. PTH acts to resorb Ca. from bone and increases elimination of P in the urine, but hyperphosphatemia is often found in these cases and should be addressed with phosphate binders before giving boluses of Ca. supplementation to avoid dystrophic calcification. Phosphate binders should also be used with strict caution in emaciated animals to avoid "re-feeding syndrome", which is a hypophosphatemia condition which can cause death if P binders are overdosed and P becomes excessively depleted. Calcitonin may also be necessary to counteract the effects of elevated PTH. Care should be taken not to rush into giving Ca or D3 supplements without addressing hyperphosphatemia otherwise secondary hyper para-thyroidism can become tertiary hyper para-thyroidism. NOTE: @13:45 It should be "2000 IU/Kg" rather than "2000 mg/Kg". And the "Treatment" part of my discussion is intended for addressing under clinical advisement by veterinarians or by an experienced rehabilitator, using the appropriate formulary guided dosing for P binders, calcitonin, etc. and after establishment of the serum lab values. Find me on MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation #metabolic bone disease #MBD #wildlife rehabilitation #animal rescue #reptile

Moving this sweet little skunk to a bigger outdoor cage so he can get more use of his limbs, until a space frees up for him at the mammal rehabbers.

Just a couple of days after recovering an injured skunk from their shrubs, I receive another message from the same residents near Lake Arrowhead last night about a raccoon just down the street who needed help and was walking in circles. It wasn't even the only raccoon in need of assistance case that I had waiting, and I was trying to finish up and go the first case when this one came in. It was going to be an hour or more before I could make it, so I asked if the mammal rehabber from Clay Co. could go get it, since she's also the permitted raccoon rehabber and is much closer. The female raccoon eventually laid down and was still there when the Clay Co. rehabber arrived. She ended up later at rehabber Sarah's house, and she called me about it earlier today. I went over to have a look, hoping that there might be something I could do to save the raccoon, but I also examined her and found that she was permanently blinded in both eyes from abscesses, and she was badly septic. Her right eye was completely opaque. I couldn't locate her left eye, and the infection was in her sinuses and lungs. Even had she survived the severe infection, she could not survive in the wild with blindness. :'( If she needed to be euthanized, I'd have preferred to do it myself and taken the care to make sure it was done as calmly and caringly as possible, in a quiet setting. But we lacked enough sedatives to put an 8lb raccoon to sleep, and the veterinarian Sarah uses was too busy to do it, so we were left with calling animal control to come get her as last resort. I knew the ride in the truck and then being brought into animal control would be stressful for her and probably loud and with dogs barking, and I didn't want her to be so scared when she got there, so I gave her what we could give her to ease her pain and keep her calm for her final journey. By the time this posts, she will be gone from this world. :'(