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Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit organization and relies on the support of people like you!
We are always in need of supplies (feed, bedding, cages) and donations to provide adequate housing and care for NE PA's injured and orphaned wildlife.
Wish List
- Flannel or thermal baby receiving blankets
- Used blankets and towels
- Clorox
- Dawn dish detergent
- Bounty paper towels
- Pine shavings
- Cat or dog food, dry or canned
- Used pet carriers
- Alcohol and peroxide
- Used aquariums
Volunteers desperately needed If you have any free time to offer, please consider helping Wildlife Rescue. There are all sorts of chores with which to assist including cage cleaning, feeding the animals, basic cleaning, yard work, aiding with therapy, and working on fund raising. It’s incredible what can be accomplished in a well spent hour! Please call 570-553-2499.
- Let us know what type of animal you would like to support and how you would like to donate.
- Corporate sponsors help us dissuade a great deal of the costs for caring for the numbers of injured and orphaned wildlife we see each year. Please contact us to help in our effort.
ONGOING EXPENDITURES
Feeding Program: In a typical year, about $6,000 is spent on food. This includes formulae, fresh fruits, vegetables, and nuts, and seeds and corn for the outdoor feeding stations. (Receipts - which are many - can be supplied.) To break this down further, it costs approximately $200. to raise a fawn to release; $25. for a nest of three robins; $30. for a baby opossum, $300. to nurse back to health a starving Great Blue Heron, $150. for a gaggle of orphaned Canada goslings; etc.
Medical Costs: While we are fortunate to have a veterinarian who generously donates his time whenever needed, we do pay “cost” for medicines and medical supplies; typically over $1,000.
Maintaining the “Un-releasables”: While every effort is made to return every animal to its wild habitat, a certain few who have permanent injuries, which would make living in the wild impossible for them, are maintained as permanent residents of Wildlife Rescue and used for our educational programs. Proper and sizable caging for permanent residents is costly. Our permanent residents (only one of each species allowed by Pa. Game Commission law) include an opossum, a crow, a turkey vulture, a kestrel, a broad wing hawk, a screech owl and a saw-whet owl.
Cage Building: Because of the wear and tear by small mammals, mammal cages last approximately three years. The cost of an average sized cage (2’x4’x2’ and on legs) which would house for example an opossum costs roughly $100. to build. A squirrel cage with dimensions of 4’x4’x6’ costs $175. to construct. Each year we need to replace several small cages.
BASIC OPERATING COSTS including Programs:
It is our belief that we provide a very special service not only to our animal friends whose lives are saved due to our efforts but also to our human friends through educational programs sharing knowledge of the world around us and how importantly and intricately we are all connected. The basic expense of operating the sanctuary is substantial, including electricity; telephone; vehicle maintenance and gas for pick up of animals and travel to and from programs; and that only covers the basics. The property is donated, as well as the time of our Director. There are no paid employees associated with Wildlife Rescue. Every penny donated is used for the feeding, housing and care of the animals and enhancement of our educational programs. Please help our efforts in any way and as generously as you can.