Native Small Mammals at WRR - Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc. (WRR) is a tax-exempt non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured, and displaced wildlife. WRR also provides permanent care for non-indigenous wild animals who have been victimized by the exotic pet trade, rescued from roadside zoos, or retired from research facilities.

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Native Small Mammals at WRR

The native small mammals who are rescued by Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation (WRR) make up the largest number of animals seen and cared for by this organization. Every year we are called on to save infant, adolescent, and adult injured and infirm skunks, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, bobcats, opossums, deer, and others. It is always difficult to witness the suffering that these animals must face in a human dominated world, but for them at least, we can offer a future that will be spent in their natural environment. The reason for this is that most of these animals come to us in need of only temporary assistance. The injured adults often have severe, yet reparable injuries such as broken legs or jaws, or they have been attacked by dogs and have bite wounds and other injuries that can be treated and healed.

We also see many wild animals who have contracted diseases from dogs, many of these maladies are fatal, but some are not, and when these animals can be saved, we do all that is necessary to reach this goal. The young members of the wildlife community are most often in need of food, medical care, and a few weeks or months of rehabilitation before being set free.

All the native wildlife who are rescued and rehabilitated at WRR are set free as soon as they are healthy and no longer in need of our care. We have over 12 protected release sites in the state of Texas; all are on privately owned land where there is a year-round water supply and where the habitat is known to support the species being released there. We rotate among release sites so that no one site is used for an inappropriate number of animals. Supplemental food is placed at the site when necessary to make the transition back to the wild an easy one. We firmly believe that wild animals have an innate ability to call on their genetic history of diverse knowledge and survival skills, and that once they are given the advantage of good nutrition and the company of their own species, they welcome the opportunity to reclaim their life of freedom in the natural world they are well-suited to inhabit.

All of the photos below were taken at Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation (WRR) in Kendalia, TX.

Hoary Bat