Paws, Inc. A South Carolina Wildlife Non Profit

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Hawks: 8	Vultures: 4	Owls: 5	Squirrels: 63
Raccoons: 21	Opossums: 87	Ducks: 7	Rabbits: 15
Turtles: 5	Deer: 34	Chipmunks:2	Geese:6
Heron: 3	Bats: 2	Flying squirrels:8	Songbirds: 8
Total as of December 31, 2009: 278

Other years are shown below (with more links at the bottom of the page.)

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2008 Wild animals taken in for rehabilitation :

Squirrels: 130	Owl: 2
Flying Squirrels: 17	Opossum: 42
Vulture: 1	Deer (fawn): 34
Bat: 3	Raccoon: 7
Bunnies: 20	Wood Ducks: 8
Hawk: 2	Heron: 2
Turtle: 1	Chipmunk: 1
Total as of December 31, 2008: 261

Follow-up Photo This is Tink, a buck that was released here last year. He stops by on occasion to check out the crop of new fawns that, as leader of his herd, will become his responsibility once they are released. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to get a pic of him sniffing noses with the babies through the fence.

Flying Squirrels (above and right)

To Right: shows the difference in size between a 5 week old flying squirrel and a 5 week old gray squirrel

Baby Mexican Freetail Bat

Above Right: Released Flying Squirrels peeking out of their new house

Rescued Turtle

Baby Raccoons

Left: 8 weeks

Above: 3 weeks

To the right: Release photo of a Great Blue Heron

Intake photo Two months later

This is Athens. Someone tried to keep him as a pet. Deer do not make good pets and will sometimes kill themselves trying to get away. Athens is making progress as you can see from the photos. (That is his skull that you see inside the damaged area.) It will take a long time for him to heal from his encounter with a chain link enclosure. We are hoping that he is able to overcome his problems and survive to go back into the wild and be free.

RIGHT: Five of our healthy fawns eating from a bottle rack.

Athens just prior to release

It took over 4 months for Athens to finally heal. (You can see one tiny red spot that has yet to heal in this photo.) We put wound ointment on his head twice a day for months. Due to the amount of damage, he will always have a scar on his forehead. The fur lower on his face did come back in....but it came in white.

Below is a photo once they were allowed in the big enclosure.

Above, almost ready-for-release deer waiting for food buckets.

Left: hanging out in our deer enclosure

Wood Duck chicks

These little guys die of stress VERY easily. If you have to rescue some, keep them in a quiet, dark box AWAY from humans and other animals and get them to a federally licensed rehabilitator immediately. Once a duck starts to fail, it cannot be brought back to health. So prevention is the ONLY way to save these guys.

See how BIG they got! (Below!)

Below is the photo taken during the release of the Wood Ducks. This is their first moment in a pond!

(Can you see the smiles on their little beaks?)

Above: Release of a bunny

Right: Our first fawn of the year. She came in severely dehydrated due to diarrhea caused by people feeding her human infant formula. Feeding this will kill animals. It took 3 days plus several different kinds of treaments to reverse the effects. If she had come to us another day or two later, she probably would have died. NEVER feed baby formula or cow's milk to animals!

Release of 20 squirrels

... first taste of freedom!

We received a yearling deer that had been hit by a car and was rehabilitated by another deer rehabber. The deer was ready for release but could not be returned to it's original area. So she came to us for release on our property, far from busy highways and subdivisions.

The photo below shows her when she first arrived and was was just waking up. The resident herd of previously released deer welcomed her into their herd.

The photo to the right shows her standing and eating acorns once the grogginess wore off..

March, 2008