WORK DAY at the WILDLIFE CENTER

26. March 2006 · Comments Off on WORK DAY at the WILDLIFE CENTER · Categories: Thank Yous, The Rescue Life

Today was a very productive day at our wildlife center.
We met new volunteers and were reunited with ongoing volunteers.

We FINALLY got one of the new squirrel pens even closer to being functional with a new fresh bed of level soil inside the retaining wall frame, and concrete around the posts. New nestboxes were built, cages and dishes were cleaned, brush was cleared….

It was a good day.

Thank you to David and Mike for driving far, far away, early in the morning to haul dirt.

Thanks to Paul for providing the dirt and the bulldozer.

Thanks to Slade and Manuel and Santiago, for providing even MORE dirt and also concrete blocks, and for performing the grueling task of hauling all the soil down the hillside and into the cage.

Thank you to Galen for pouring cement and digging post holes (and for those Wonderful Strawberries! )

Thank you to Jim for going up and down the slope, cleaning brush and hauling it away!

Thank you to Leslie B. for building 2 wonderful squirrel nest-boxes!

Thank you to Angela M. for cleaning cages and clearing brush and designing our new intake sheets!

Thank you to Leanna for cleaning animal dishes, making sandwiches and clearing brush.

Thank you to Helene for signing on as a new volunteer with many ideas on how to get more support!

Thank you to our neighbors for their ongoing patience with juggling cars on this narrow cul-de-sac.

Thank you to Richard for lugging dirt, cement, lumber and more up and down the slope (for days) and a BIG thanks for sweeping the mud out of the carpet, which inevitably gets tracked inside, after these events.

Our thoughts are with the volunteers who wanted to be here today but were unable to due to their housefire early Sunday morning. We are so grateful no one was hurt.

There is still TONS to do. If you want to help, PLEASE contact me and we can set up another workday!

I thank you, but more importantly, the orphaned wildlife who will learn how to survive in these cages before being released back into the wild, thank you.

What are the odds?

03. March 2006 · Comments Off on What are the odds? · Categories: Animal Stories, The Rescue Life

For the last three years in a row March 3rd has been THE day that the first baby squirrel orphans of the year have come in to our wildlife center. This year was no exception.

March 3rd, 2006 was once again the date of the first orphaned squirrel babies of the year!
Three beauties came in, from a kind gentleman who found them in the gutter, after the powerful windstorm last night. One was icy cold and the kind soul did his best to get her warm and active like the other two. Unfortunately, she was just too cold for her internal organs to keep functioning properly and despite our best attempts, she passed shortly after their arrival.

The surviving two babies are good and strong.
A boy and a girl. The girl has some bad bruising and a broken leg and tail, but the boy is almost untouched!

Aren’t they beautiful?
Squirrel Babies
Please be on the lookout for your local squirrels.
The Mothers will be more frantic than normal and more likely to engage in daredevil behavior to get what they need to take good care of their little babies.

If you find babies, please be sure to see if Mom is around. The best person to care for the babies is their mother. And believe me – baby squirrels are HARD to care for and Easy to kill with kindness. They eat special food (not cows milk) and eat a special way – if you feed them wrong they can die. If you find them and there is no mother around looking for them, please contact your local wildlife center as soon as possible. Or call me for advice:) 510-421-9897

Think good thoughts for these little ones!
And THANK YOU to David, for caring enough to drop everything to save these little guys!

Spring Has Sprung…..

01. March 2006 · Comments Off on Spring Has Sprung….. · Categories: Animal Stories, The Rescue Life

Please watch out for wildlife at this time of year. They are more crazy, with mating on their minds and may not be as watchful for cars or passerbys.

Please DON’T trim your trees unless you are ABSOLUTELY certain there are no squirrel nests in their branches. Babies are born and mother’s are hiding them in nests. This is when we get the most number of orphaned baby squirrels from tree trimming projects. The mothers will NOT leave their nests and may get killed when the branches fall.

IF YOU DO FIND BABY SQUIRRELS, check to make sure their mother is not around, looking for them. If she is, place the nest or babies at the base of a tree near the mother and back away, but watch to make sure no predators get the baby(s).

Baby SquirrelsIF MOTHER IS DEAD or Doesn’t Take back the babies, PLEASE CALL US ASAP. Baby squirrels are difficult to care for and easy to kill with kindness. Please call us so we can help. We can take the babies into our care and you can be as involved as you want to be in their recovery. (510) 421-9897

Thank you for caring about wildlife!

Here are a few pictures of Wildlife we currently have in care so far this spring….

Hummingbird

Windblown in the storm. Recovering well…
Opossum Mom

Shop at Albertson’s?

01. March 2006 · Comments Off on Shop at Albertson’s? · Categories: The Rescue Life

Did you know that Albertson’s will give our wildlife center a percentage of every dollar YOU spend when you shop at their store? This is an easy way to help our wildlife center and it costs you nothing but a moment of your time to sign up!

All you need is your Albertson’s Club Card Number (from the bar code on the card OR from your receipt next time you shop – ask the Clerk to circle your number) AND the phone# you used to sign up with.

http://www.albertsons.com/cp/

Click on Shoppers login or register with your Preferred Savings Card first. This is where they will ask for your current card# and phone number. Once you log on, you will be asked for a Community Partner Number of the organization you would like to support.
Our number is: 49001007352 or alternatively, if you would prefer to search for us, simply put in Yggdrasil.

Last month we received $12.00 from Albertson’s because of this program – and that with only 2 people signing up. If we can get more people to sign up this could really help us.

Please tell your friends!

Thanks for your time.

Winter Slowdown…Tales of Releases and Repairs…

07. December 2005 · Comments Off on Winter Slowdown…Tales of Releases and Repairs… · Categories: The Rescue Life

Well, it’s December and we are now receiving very few animals here at the wildlife center. A few injured adults have come through but no more frantic rushes of babies ’til Spring. Baby Squirrels usually begin needing care in March but with the odd weather we are having I would not be surprised if it were an early spring this year.

I have many tales to share and many pictures to upload of our Last-Of-The-Year animal releases. Give me a few days to edit down all the photos and come back to visit!

Also, we are working on our Yearly newsletter so be sure to email me your mailing address if you would like to receive one.

Thanks for your patience with me and my lack of updating. With so few volunteers and so little funding, there are too many other items higher on the priority list. We *hope* to have more volunteers and more funding in the spring:)

Don’t forget to sign up with Albertson’s Community Share program so we get a percentage of whatever you spend on groceries at Albertson’s! It’s easy and it’s Free to you and it makes a HUGE difference to us.

On the LOWER RIGHT side of the screen is the “COMMUNITY PARTNERS” link. Click that 🙂 All you need is your Albertson’s Club Card Number (from the bar code on the card OR from your receipt next time you shop – ask the Clerk to circle your number) AND the phone# you used to sign up with. When you log onto their Community Partners website you will be asked for a Community Partner Number of the organization you would like to support. Our number is: 49001007352 or alternatively, if you would prefer to search for us, simply put in Yggdrasil.

Last month we received $12.00 from Albertson’s because of this program – and that with only 2 people signing up. If we can get more people to sign up this could really help us. Please tell your friends! Thanks for your time.

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