Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Wisconsin Humane Society

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Wisconsin Humane Society A non-profit wildlife hospital serving roughly 5,000 injured and orphaned wild animals each year. Check out our Amazon Wish List here https://amzn.to/3s8ODdL

We need your help! Our second-wave squirrels have arrived, and they are 🥜 nuts 🌰 about their diet! We are currently in n...
08/26/2025

We need your help! Our second-wave squirrels have arrived, and they are 🥜 nuts 🌰 about their diet!
We are currently in need of whole, in-the-shell nuts to help feed the many, many orphaned squirrels currently in our care. They're getting other food as well - nuts alone don't make a nutritionally-complete diet - but they sure do like them! We'll take any variety of unsalted nuts in the shell commercially available that you can buy (peanuts, pecans, walnuts, etc.), as well as locally foraged nuts like acorns, hickory nuts, butternuts, and even black walnuts. Certainly leave some of those wild nuts for your wild squirrels - but if you're cleaning the yard anyway and were just going to toss them - our patients would be so grateful!
💚 You can bring them to our wildlife hospital at 4500 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53208. Thanks so much! 🐿️

Meet some of our recent patients, all of whom received treatment thanks to the generosity of supporters like you! Thank ...
08/22/2025

Meet some of our recent patients, all of whom received treatment thanks to the generosity of supporters like you! Thank you for caring about wildlife in need! 💚

Feeling creative? We've got a raccoon in care who is begging for you to photoshop him and share your creations in the co...
08/19/2025

Feeling creative? We've got a raccoon in care who is begging for you to photoshop him and share your creations in the comments below. Captions welcome, too! 🦝
We'll go first...

We are so thankful to Schlitz Audubon Nature Center's team for partnering with us for this release! 💚💚
08/12/2025

We are so thankful to Schlitz Audubon Nature Center's team for partnering with us for this release! 💚💚

🐿️ If you discover squirrels in your attic or walls, it’s important to handle the situation humanely—especially during b...
08/06/2025

🐿️ If you discover squirrels in your attic or walls, it’s important to handle the situation humanely—especially during baby season. Poisons can be dangerous to any other animals, pets, or humans in the vicinity. And simply sealing the entry point can trap helpless babies inside, leaving them to starve or become orphaned, causing a preventable trip to our already-bustling wildlife hospital. This not only causes unnecessary suffering but can also lead to foul odors, insect infestations, and structural damage.
Instead, employ the expertise of companies like Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control who can conduct a detailed inspection to identify how the squirrels have been entering your home, assess any damage they may have caused, use one-way doors to get mobile squirrels out for good, and delicately relocate any babies to a spot that’s easily assessable for Mom to reclaim them from. Their next order of business is repairing the entry points they’ve been using – with a lifetime guarantee on their work, no less! – and giving advice to help each homeowner prevent another similar experience in the future.
Bottom line: taking a compassionate approach protects both the animals *and* your home! 💚

LAST CHANCE to have your gift go twice as far for wildlife! 🚨 There’s time until tonight at midnight - You can use the D...
07/31/2025

LAST CHANCE to have your gift go twice as far for wildlife! 🚨 There’s time until tonight at midnight - You can use the Donate button here or give online at https://wihumane.me/WildlifeMatch25. If you’ve already given, we are beyond grateful for your support! 💚️ Double your impact and help us we can continue this critical work. Thank you so much!

LAST CHANCE to have your gift go twice as far for wildlife! 🚨 There’s time until 11:59PM on 7/31 - You can use the Donat...
07/30/2025

LAST CHANCE to have your gift go twice as far for wildlife! 🚨 There’s time until 11:59PM on 7/31 - You can use the Donate button here or give online at https://wihumane.me/WildlifeMatch25. If you’ve already given, we are beyond grateful for your support! 💚️

Every year, our dedicated team of rehabilitators and volunteers cares for thousands of animals at our hospital. From orphaned babies to injured patients, they prepare food, administer medication, perform surgery, and support their journey, all with the goal of release so they can continue their wild adventures. We receive no general government funding and rely on the generosity of our supporters. We would be so grateful if you'd consider making a gift during the final hours of this matching opportunity, so you can double your impact and we can continue this critical work. Thank you so much!

🐢 This poor Snapping Turtle had a rough go after swallowing a fish hook and getting hit by a car. We ran X-rays to ensur...
07/25/2025

🐢 This poor Snapping Turtle had a rough go after swallowing a fish hook and getting hit by a car. We ran X-rays to ensure there weren't any pelvic fractures and performed surgery to remove the incredibly thick hook from their esophagus. More than a month later, they're doing well and continuing nicely on their rehabilitation journey. As soon as their shell and throat are fully healed, they'll be back in the wild -- all thanks to supporters like you! 💚

Donations to our wildlife center are still being matched for a little bit longer, so be sure to give by 7/31 to have your contribution go twice as far for patients in need! You can use the donate button here or visit https://wihumane.me/WildlifeMatch25 - thank you so much!

07/18/2025

Thank you all so much for your delicious donations! As you can tell, a lot of our patients are enjoying the "fruits" of your generosity 🍇🍉🍏🍈 Our work would be impossible without your support and kindness! 💚

(Our raccoon friends decided to play filmmaker a bit, so forgive us for the novel framing 😄 we didn't want to interrupt their lunch to fix it!)

This leucistic opossum was found in the middle of the road at midnight earlier this spring. He desperately needed help a...
07/17/2025

This leucistic opossum was found in the middle of the road at midnight earlier this spring. He desperately needed help after losing a lot of blood, most likely from a vehicle collision earlier in the evening. Luckily, the kind finder quickly contained him and contacted us for help! Upon admission, we found he was bleeding from his mouth and nose, had a fractured canine tooth, high levels of lead in his system, and the bone at the tip of his tail was exposed (an old injury from previous frostbite after exposure to Wisconsin's cold winters -- a common injury we see with opossums). Our team went to work stabilizing him, relieving his pain, and treating his lead toxicity. We also worked closely with our volunteer veterinarians and the students at UW Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine, who performed two surgeries on him, one to remove his painful tooth and another to partially amputate his tail. After a long stay with us, his lead levels returned to a safe range, and his surgery sites healed beautifully! He was recently released to continue his life in the wild!

As a reminder, a generous friend is MATCHING all donations made to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center! That means all your gifts will go twice as far for patients like this little one. 💚 Donate today at https://wihumane.me/WildlifeMatch25 or here through our Donate button.

07/09/2025

This Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel came to us after he was found curled up in the basement of an apartment complex. He is currently getting the rest he deserves in our nursery as we treat for any possible head trauma he could've experienced. On his first day with us, he was already caught munching on some pecans and was even redecorating his recovery suite once he had regained some strength!

As a reminder, a generous friend is MATCHING all donations made to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center! That means all your gifts will go twice as far for patients like this little one. 💚 Donate today at https://wihumane.me/WildlifeMatch25 or here through our Donate button.

We’re currently in high need of fruit and berries for the patients in our care! 🍇If you have any grapes, apples, pears, ...
07/08/2025

We’re currently in high need of fruit and berries for the patients in our care! 🍇
If you have any grapes, apples, pears, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, or melon to spare, we’d be so grateful if you could drop them off between 9:00AM-5:00PM in the wildlife department, at 4500 W Wisconsin Ave in Milwaukee. This time of year, the spring babies are growing fast and eating like teenagers – we go through a whole lot of food and would appreciate any help we can get restocking our kitchen! Thank you so much!

*📷Cathy Drexler*

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4500 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI
53208

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+14144316204

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