Late Summer, and the Raccoons Grow Apace!
Many of our beautiful, healthy young raccoons are getting close to release age. They spend their days napping on tree limbs, in hollow tree trunks, and even on the shelves in their rehabilitation pens. They’ve become adept at finding spiders, jumping at moths, getting their own blackberries from the [...]
Archive for the ‘Exciting Rescues’ Category
New Customers, Growing Juveniles
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Raccoons in Droves! Foster Volunteers Needed!
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates, Volunteer Opportunities on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Raccoon Friends,
We are bursting at the seams with raccoon clients. June is usually our busiest month, but June is not even half over, and we’ve already cared for 16 raccoons, 3 squirrels and one mouse.
Fifteen raccoon babies are in care now. Our newest orphans are two very beautiful young 2.5 pounders, who were [...]
New Baby, New Business
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates, Uncategorized on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Helloooooo Raccoon Fans!
As some of you know, I’ve started a business to help support Rancho Raccoon and our wildlife center, Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue. I’m pleased to report that after a great deal of paperwork, tool-and-equipment buying, midnight-oil-burning, and a little bit of tooth-gnashing, Good Riddance! Wildlife Exclusions has not only been born, but is [...]
Some Funny-Looking Raccoon Babies
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates, Uncategorized on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Folks,
Rancho Raccoon has just taken in three fox squirrel babies. These kids needed someone to babysit them just for a week or two (that is how we rehabbers recruit “oh, just for a few days”). Yes, that’s our sneaky way, and even I fell for it, and I am glad! Squirrel babies are quite [...]
First Babies, 2009
Posted in Exciting Rescues, How to Discourage Pesky Raccoons, Patient Updates, Uncategorized, tagged wildlife rescue on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hola, Raccoon Fans, and welcome to Baby Season, 2009!
On Wednesday afternoon our first babies of the season arrived. Five beautiful raccoon babies, around 10 – 15 days old, just little eating, sleeping, screeching and eliminating machines.
Why do we have 5 healthy babies, whose mother obviously took excellent care of them? We have them because a [...]
October surprise!
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates, Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just when I thought I could safely take some time off in October, Rancho received a new customer! A 2-pound male raccoon was found next to his dead sibling, who had been hit by a car. Once he came into care, we needed a pod mate for him and located another male the same size [...]
Mid-Season Excitement
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bye Bye to our first group of Babies!
Well folks, our Fairyland Five, the biggest, rowdiest, cheeriest, healthiest and most confident batch of young raccoons have gone off to their new home in the Oakland hills. Having been born by the railroad tracks, indicated their willingness to do what must be done by holding up the [...]
Hello, Sailor!
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ahoy, Raccoon Fans,
Say hello to our newest addition, young Sailor. He hails from Berkeley Marina, where he was found wandering alone, filthy, frightened, and very sick. We found puncture wounds in his shoulder, and the best guess is that he was grabbed by another animal, but managed somehow to escape. What a brave baby!
The wound [...]
The Saga of the Fairyland Five
Posted in Exciting Rescues, Patient Updates on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue Called in During Raccoon Hold-Up!
“Find the Fairyland Five!” the call came in on Wednesday from Yvonne Backman, Animal Caregiver at Oakland’s Fairyland, the oldest childrens’ theme park in the country.
That afternoon, five masked baby bandits had snuck out of their hideaway beneath the Jolly Trolly Station and held up the Fairyland [...]
