- Description
This donation link can be used to pay your remaining payment plan for classes, donate to help with supplies, or for wildlife rehab help.
Wildlife Rehab Donation:
What is it like to be a wildlife rehabber? The job description would say...A wildlife rehabilitator is a licensed professional who rescues, treats, and cares for sick, injured, or orphaned wild animals with the ultimate goal of returning them to their natural habitats. It is a physically demanding, hands-on role that balances veterinary care with animal husbandry. The job requires you to answer or text with animal finders at all hours of the night. The job requires you to set alarms to feed animals every 4 hours all day and night. The job requires delicate precise creating milk formulas. The job requires you to document all of the animals that you intake for state purposes. The job requires you to santitize regularly to keep your own personal pets and other intakes from getting sick. The job will require you to miss summer or mini vacations to take care of the animals. The job also requires you to spend your own money to purchase food for the animals. The job encourages you to fundraise and ask for donations to keep your program running. The job requires you to use your own personal vehicle to pick up animals, help animal finders, and take animals to the vet.
There is no other job, other than being a "mom" that would ask so much of you. That is why wildlife rehabiliation takes dedication. Most of the calls we get are because an individuals' pet killed the mother, damaged a nest, or caused some type of damage causing the animal to be abandoned. This means that we are willing to take in an animal to feed every 4 hours for a few months because of your pet's actions. Please keep that in mind, and donate willingly to help out your local rehabber. Consider volunteering too, or being an animal transporter for the GA Wildlife Network.
Rehabber Information/Back Story:
Thank you for being willing to donate to a great cause. I have always loved animals. My mom said she use to find me sitting on a hill behind our house reading books to my pet rabbit and cats. My whole life I have been the one my friends called when they found an injured or abandoned animal. And yes, my favorite character is Snow White. I spent my years in high school working closely with a veterinary clinic to learn more about how I can help animals. I began volunteering for a wildlife center my first year of college. I was put in charge of feeding, cleaning cages, making salads, and providing enrichment in the cages for the animals. At UGA I continued my studies in Animal Science. While on campus I worked as an animal husbandry volunteer worker at the school farm. I also worked as a teaching assistant for Animal Genetics and Animal Science 101. At that time, I started a mini farm on our family property. I continued college receiving my Masters in Ag Education. I currently work as a science teacher, online tutor, curriculum writer, wildlife rehabber, baker, and farmer. I am part of a vendor program where I sell my chicken eggs, quail eggs, and sourdough bread in a local farm shed. My life resolves around keeping something small alive-from chickens, goats, quail, kittens, fawns, squirrels, possums, rabbits, and even sourdough starter. I have a big heart and care deeply for anything science or animal related. I may have big hopes, and I struggle to say no when someone asks me to help with an animal. Even with the best intentions, things get expensive. So donations are greatly needed.
Donations are use to-
-donate towards my wildlife rehab program.
I volunteer for the GA Wildlife Network intaking fawns, squirrels, possums, and rabbits. The position is 100% volunteer so your donations provide care for animals surrendered to the program.
-sponsorship for animals surrendered to the program
-sponsorship for science classes for students in need
-to help me continue to provide discounts for homeschoolers on science classes
-to purchase science lab supplies
If you prefer to use Amazon, please look over the following WILDLIFE SUPPLY LIST.
A common question is how much is needed for one animal per month. I have provided a detailed list of supplies needed by species below to give you an estimate or to provide you information if you would like to sponsor a certain animal or item needed.
-Squirrel
($21, needs one lb bag twice a week) Henry's One Formula
($23.99, needs two bags a month) Food Blocks
($43.99, once a month) Oral Flea Meds
($18.61, one per squirrel) Speciality Syringe With Nipple
($40, once a month pack) Puppy pads for cage
Fresh fruit/veggies (estimate of $18, per month)
Unsalted nuts/seeds (estimate $24, per month)
($15, once a month) Wildlife Mix
-Fawns
($16 per gallon, once a week) Goat's Milk
($39 per bag, once a month) Goat Kid Milk Replacer Powder
($43.99, once a month) Oral Flea Meds
($15, given upon intake) Selenium Paste
($16, given in each bottle the first few weeks ) Probiotics
($19, given upon intake and for the first few weeks) Nutri Drench
($40, once a month pack) Puppy pads for cage
($9, used daily for the first few months) Speciality bottle
-Possums
($21, needs one lb bag twice a week) Henry's One Formula
Fresh fruit/veggies (estimate of $25, per month)
Unsalted nuts/seeds (estimate $24, per month)
Protein sources (meat estimate $25, per month)
($40, once a month pack) Puppy pads for cage
($12, sprinkle on food) Calcium powder
($8, two tablets per week) Tums tablet for Calcium
($7, two soft gels pills per week) D3 tabets
-Rabbits
($21, needs one lb bag once a week, Henry's One Formula
($40, once a month pack) Puppy pads for cage
Fresh fruit/veggies (estimate of $25, per month)
($18.61, one per squirrel) Speciality Syringe With Nipple
If you are willing to help other rehabbers out, please look over https://www.georgiawildlifenetwork.com/rehabberdonations you will find this donation link and the links to others if you feel in your heart to help others too.
I am also always in need of animal cages, so let me know what cages you would like to donate.