08/15/2025
We are so very excited for our friends at Hoosier Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation!
As an added bonus to this location they have offered to rent us a room during their non-peak times of year! This will allow us to have a safe, secure place for fosters when we do not have available foster homes available.
Please consider donating to help offset this cost to help all the animals!
We need your help. More now than ever.
TL/DR: We need more space to save wild lives… and that costs more. We need your help ♥️
https://givebutter.com/lGxyn9
Last week, I stood in my kitchen at 2:13 AM, holding a baby squirrel no older than a few days. It was hairless. Eyes still closed. Completely dependent on me to keep it alive until sunrise.
That same day, a volunteer tube-fed orphaned opossums during her work shifts.
Another cleaned crates outside in 80-degree heat until sweat soaked through her shirt.
Someone else drove across counties to pick up a hawk that had been hit by a car.
This is what wildlife rehab really looks like.
It’s messy. It’s exhausting. It’s raw and beautiful all at once.
It’s giving every ounce you have for a creature that may never know your name.
And it works, this year alone, we’ve taken in over 1,000 animals for the FIRST time in our history. That’s 1,000 beating hearts given a second chance.
But here’s the part that keeps me up at night:
Our current space can’t keep up, and hasn’t been able to. We can’t take songbirds. Volunteers are working elbow-to-elbow. We can’t dedicate rooms for vet care or teaching. And the burnout is real, because running a rehab in too small of a space to add more volunteers takes its toll.
That’s why we’re signing a lease for a larger space. A space that means:
Room to finally rehab songbirds at a time when their populations are falling
Enough space for volunteers to work without stepping over cages or each other
A dedicated veterinary room and safer conditions for every animal in our care
A place to TRAIN the next generation of wildlife rehabbers.
More education animals to help the public connect with wildlife on a personal level
It will change everything… but it comes with a price: $800/month.
And if we don’t raise that through monthly donations, we risk having to take money away from the very things that keep animals alive: food, cages, vet bills, transportation, even the produce that feeds our rabbits.
Here’s what it will take:
20 people giving $40 a month or
40 people giving $20 a month or even
80 people giving $10 a month
And yes, if all you can give is $5 or even share this post, that still makes a real difference.)
Here’s where you come in.
If you can give $5, $10, $20 a month, you won’t just be keeping the lights on. You’ll be putting your name, literally, on a glow-in-the-dark star on our ceiling, a reminder that even in the dark, we are surrounded by people who shine for wildlife.
You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes photo tour of the new space, an offer to our current monthly donors and new monthly donors. You’ll have the same view of what one our volunteers, vets, and rescued animals will soon call home.
$5/month might not feel like much to you. Hell, it’s less than a coffee these days. But to a baby bird who wouldn’t survive the night without us, it’s the difference between a silent spring and a morning full of music.
Become a monthly donor here
https://givebutter.com/lGxyn9
Because the wild can’t heal itself without people who care. And right now, we’re asking YOU to be one of them.
With love,
The Hoosier Wildlife Rescue Team ♥️
