Carolina Wildlife Rescue

04/07/2025

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05/10/2022

Coexist. Help save a life. Do your part. Prevention is key. This 👇🏼

05/10/2022

PSA

05/04/2022

PSA: Help save a life 💝

Got Wildlife? BEFORE you hire a trapper, buy a trap, or close an entry hole on your property -- Watch this. What you don't know could cost you a LOT more mon...

04/26/2022

Just a few wildlife tracks

03/24/2022

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02/05/2022

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It’s time to discuss Bob. Every rehabilitator has met Bob in some form of another.

One Bob we dealt with shot a mother raccoon during the busiest part of baby season in 2019 because she had eaten his cat’s food, and that Bob had the nerve to call us “heartless” when we explained that we were completely out of space and could not make room for her large litter of newborns.

A lot of Bobs work for wildlife removal companies. Those Bobs love to tell potential customers about how they’re heroes because they save orphan baby animals. They neglect to tell customers that they rely on rehabilitators to put in hundreds of hours of unpaid labor. They also gloss over the fact that they’re the reason the babies are orphaned in the first place.

We don’t like Bob.

Of course, if a mother raccoon has passed away, of any cause, we would prefer that her babies come to us than that they be left to die. But make no mistake: someone who kills a mother animal is a jerk, not a hero, even if he manages to find sympathy for the babies left behind.

Please, please, please don’t be like Bob. Baby animals are always safest, happiest, and healthiest with their own natural mothers, and the best way to save babies is to never make them orphans in the first place.