Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center

Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center The Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center is a nonprofit, all-volunteer wildlife care facility located in northeastern PA.

Poconowildlife.org
501(c)(3) Wildlife Hospital
Clinic 570-402-0223
Executive Directors
Janine 267-266-1277
Susan 215-499-3930

https://poconowildlife.org/donate/

💔💔💔This is Felix. His finders gave him his name because they’ve known him for months.💔💔💔Just a couple of months ago, Fel...
08/12/2026

💔💔💔This is Felix. His finders gave him his name because they’ve known him for months.💔💔💔
Just a couple of months ago, Felix was a healthy, playful baby, often spotted with his sibling at his finders’ place of work. They watched the two of them play, explore, and learn how to navigate this big world as brand-new little lives.
Today, they saw Felix again.
But this time, he wasn’t playing.
Felix walked right up to them and followed them into the garage. It was as though he knew exactly where he needed to go.💔😭💔
Wild animals spend their lives avoiding people. But sometimes, when they are sick, exhausted, and have absolutely nothing left, they do something extraordinary…
They ask us for help.❤️❤️❤️
And thankfully Felix's did.
Because by the time he reached us, he was barely hanging on.😭💔😭
His little body is being ravaged by mange. His skin is covered in painful sores. He has developed a terrible upper respiratory infection, likely a secondary bacterial infection resulting from how severely compromised his body has become.
He is so weak that when he tries to stand, his legs simply cannot hold him. He falls over.😓
It is heartbreaking to look at him and imagine that only a short time ago, this same little guy was outside running and playing beside his sibling.💔
Tonight, I sat with Felix and offered him food from a spoon.
And then it happened.
He ate. 🥺
He allowed me to spoon-feed him💓💓.
It may seem like such a tiny thing, but when you are caring for an animal this critically debilitated, you wait for those moments.💓You search for the smallest sign that somewhere inside that exhausted little body, they are still willing to fight.💓
That was the moment I had been waiting for.💓
Felix isn't giving up tonight. And neither are we. ❤️‍🩹
His road back will not be quick. He needs medications, treatment for his infection and mange, supportive care, nutritious food, warmth, monitoring, and time possibly a lot of it🙏🏼
So tonight, we are asking for your help with Felix's medical care and extended stay with us.🙏🏼
If you can donate toward his care, no amount is too small. Every few dollars helps us give him another meal, another treatment, another comfortable night, and another opportunity to become that healthy little guy his finders remember.🙏🏼
And if donating isn't possible, please share Felix's story.🙏🏼
Tonight, a desperately sick little wild animal walked up to humans and trusted them with his life.🙏🏼
Let's show him that he chose the right people. 💔🙏🏼
Come on, Felix.🙏🏼
You keep eating. We'll keep fighting. ❤️

🙏🏼🙏🏼 We’re Putting Out Feelers… Could Our Community Help Us Grow?🙏🏼🙏🏼Over the last five years, since Susan and I took ov...
08/12/2026

🙏🏼🙏🏼 We’re Putting Out Feelers… Could Our Community Help Us Grow?🙏🏼🙏🏼
Over the last five years, since Susan and I took over, the number of animals coming through our doors has nearly doubled.🤯
And with that growth has come a very real problem ...we desperately need more clinic space.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Anybody who has visited our facility knows that although we are incredibly fortunate to have a very large property, our actual indoor clinic space is extremely limited. We are working in tight quarters every single day, trying to safely accommodate an ever-growing number of animals while maintaining proper separation, sanitation and disease-control protocols.
So before we take on a project of this size, we're putting out some feelers.
Would our community support us in creating an additional clinic specifically for our RVS patients ( skunks ,fox ,groundhogs, bats, raccoons, coyotes)
The good news is that we already have the physical space❤️. One of our intern apartments will become vacant in October, giving us an opportunity to completely remodel and transform that space into a dedicated RVS clinic.🙏🏼
Obviously, it isn't as simple as moving a few cages into a room. The space would need to be properly renovated and outfitted with cage banks, appropriate containment, sanitation areas and all of the necessary RVS-specific safety, quarantine and disease-control protocols.
But the difference it could make would be HUGE.💟💟💟💟💟💟
Moving our RVS patients into their own dedicated clinic would free up a tremendous amount of space in our existing clinic and allow us to segregate species much more efficiently🙏🏼.
That means better organization, better biosecurity, less congestion and a safer environment for both our animals and the people caring for them🙏🏼.
Most importantly, it would give us room to continue growing with the need.🙏🏼
Five years ago, we could never have imagined the number of animals that would eventually come through these doors. Today, we're caring for nearly double that number and the calls aren't slowing down.💔
We don't want lack of physical clinic space to become the reason we have to say no to an animal we otherwise have the ability to help.
Right now, we aren't officially launching this project. We're asking YOU.
If we moved forward with converting this apartment into a dedicated RVS clinic, would you help us make it happen?
Maybe that means sponsoring a cage. Maybe it's donating toward construction materials, plumbing, cabinetry or equipment. Maybe it's $5 or $10 toward the renovation. Maybe it's simply sharing the project with someone who might want to help.
For now, we simply need to know whether our community would stand behind us.
❤️ If you would support the creation of a dedicated RVS clinic, please leave us a YES in the comments.
We have the space.🙏🏼
We have the need.🙏🏼
We have more animals depending on us than ever before.🙏🏼
We just need the room to keep saying YES. ❤️

💔Meet Raya , Our First Overwintering Baby raccoon of the Season 💔Weighing in at just under 700 grams🥹( about the weight ...
08/12/2026

💔Meet Raya , Our First Overwintering Baby raccoon of the Season 💔Weighing in at just under 700 grams🥹( about the weight of 24 ounce water bottle)
At a time of year when our raccoon babies are usually growing up, becoming independent, and preparing for release, little Raya arrived.
Raya was apparently abandoned, with no mother and no siblings anywhere in sight. By the time she made it to us, her tiny body told the story of just how long she had been struggling. She arrived incredibly emaciated and severely dehydrated, far too small and fragile to survive on her own.💔
It is very unusual for us to receive a raccoon this small this late in the season. Most orphaned raccoon kits require months of specialized rehabilitation before they are ready to return to the wild.
And for Raya, that means one thing
She isn't going anywhere anytime soon. ❤️‍🩹
Raya has officially become our first overwintering raccoon of the season. While others her age should be learning beside their mothers and siblings, Raya will spend the coming months with us, gaining weight, growing stronger, receiving proper nutrition and veterinary care, and eventually learning all the skills she will need to be wild.🙏🏼
Overwintering an animal means an extended commitment, months of food, vaccinations, medical care, enrichment, specialized housing, heating through the coldest part of the year, and eventually an appropriate outdoor enclosure.
But when we look at that tiny face, we know she deserves every single day we can give her.💓
Today, we are fundraising for Raya's care and her very extended stay with us. 🦝❤️
If you can donate toward Raya's journey, even just a few dollars ,you will be helping provide for a little girl who somehow held on long enough to make it through our doors.🙏🏼
She may have arrived alone.
But Raya doesn't have to fight alone anymore.🩷
Please donate, share, and help us give this tiny girl the chance to grow up, get strong, and someday walk back into the wild where she belongs. 🌲🐾
Welcome, Raya. We've got you. ❤️

✨ It’s all about setting intention. ✨When one of our patients leaves for the veterinary hospital, we always set their ca...
08/11/2026

✨ It’s all about setting intention. ✨
When one of our patients leaves for the veterinary hospital, we always set their cage back up and have it waiting for their return. Their blankets are ready. Their bed is waiting. Their space is prepared.
Because we believe in setting the intention that they are coming back. ❤️‍🩹
Today, Sunshine and Buddy are headed to the vet, where we are hopeful they will both receive the surgical intervention they need to repair their broken limbs.
Their cages are ready.🙏🏼
Their beds are waiting.🙏🏼
And now, we wait for them. 🥺❤️
If everyone could take just a moment today to send Sunshine and Buddy some extra love, light, healing energy, prayers whatever you believe in, we would appreciate it more than you know.❣️
May their surgeries be successful. May their little bodies be strong. And may they both come back through our doors today so we can tuck them safely into the cages already waiting for them. 🙏🏼✨
Come back to us, Sunshine and Buddy. We’re ready for you. ❤️‍🩹

❤️ A HUGE SHOUT-OUT TO HAMMERHEAD TATTOO! ❤️We want to give the biggest thank you to the incredible crew at Hammerhead T...
08/11/2026

❤️ A HUGE SHOUT-OUT TO HAMMERHEAD TATTOO! ❤️
We want to give the biggest thank you to the incredible crew at Hammerhead Tattoo for putting together such a phenomenal fundraiser for our wildlife. 🐾🦝🦊🦉
Not only are these artists unbelievably gifted at what they do, but they are also just genuinely good humans. Kind, down-to-earth, compassionate, and refreshingly zero ego ,the kind of people you meet and immediately know their hearts are in the right place.💓💓💓
It was an absolute pleasure giving them a tour of our hospital today and introducing them to some of the lives their generosity is helping us care for. ❤️
Support like this means more to us than people realize. When a local business chooses to use its talent, time, and platform to help wildlife that has no voice of its own, it says so much about the people behind that business.💟💟💟
We are incredibly grateful to have crossed paths with the Hammerhead Tattoo crew, and we are so excited to continue working together in the future.
Talented artists.❣️Exceptional humans.❣️ Huge hearts. ❣️
Thank you, Hammerhead Tattoo, for showing up for wildlife and for reminding us how wonderful our community can be. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

💔 MEET BUDDY — THE LITTLE GUY WHO JUST COULDN’T CATCH A BREAK 💔Another baby raccoon. Another tiny life that has already ...
08/10/2026

💔 MEET BUDDY — THE LITTLE GUY WHO JUST COULDN’T CATCH A BREAK 💔
Another baby raccoon. Another tiny life that has already learned far too much about how cruel and unforgiving the world can be.😢
This is Buddy. 🦝💔
According to his finder, raccoons frequently visit her yard, and Buddy has always seemed to be the one who gets picked on. The little one pushed around. The one who never seemed to quite fit in. The one who was always on the receiving end.💔
And this time, he was hurt badly.💔
Buddy came to us covered in puncture wounds, and unfortunately, we have also discovered a fracture.😪
Tomorrow, Buddy will be heading to Radnor Veterinary Hospital for a full assessment so we can determine exactly what we're dealing with and what will be needed to give this sweet baby the best chance at healing.🙏🏼
There is something especially heartbreaking about looking at this little face and imagining him trying to survive while constantly being bullied and chased away. He didn't ask to be the smallest.💔 He didn't ask to be the one picked on. 💔He was simply trying to find his place in a world where every single day is already a fight for survival.💔
And now he needs us.🙏🏼
Hismedications, treatment, specialized diet, and the weeks of rehabilitation that may follow all come at a cost and Buddy arrived at a time when we are already caring for so many injured and orphaned animals.
🙏 We are urgently fundraising for Buddy's medical care and rehabilitation.
When hundreds of people each give just a few dollars, it becomes the medical care/ medications, food, and safe place that can change an animal's entire story🙏🏼.
Buddy has spent enough of his young life being the one who gets hurt.😢
From this moment forward, we want him to know what it feels like to be the one everyone is fighting FOR. 🥺🦝❤️
Please donate if you can, share if you can't, and send Buddy all the love and healing energy you have.🙏🏼
Tomorrow we find out what his road to recovery will look like.
Tonight, we remind him that he doesn't have to walk it alone. 💔🙏

💔 HE SURVIVED THE FISHING LINE… NOW WE NEED TO MAKE SURE HE GETS BACK TO THE WILD. 🩵🪽🩵This beautiful blue heron( who we'...
08/10/2026

💔 HE SURVIVED THE FISHING LINE… NOW WE NEED TO MAKE SURE HE GETS BACK TO THE WILD. 🩵🪽🩵
This beautiful blue heron( who we've named Harrison after his finder) was brought to us yesterday by the amazing Barbara Miller after becoming dangerously entangled in fishing line.
Something as simple as a piece of discarded fishing line can become a death sentence for wildlife.
The line had wrapped tightly around his feet and toes, restricting circulation.... And now we wait.
We wait to see the color return🙏🏼
We wait for the swelling to improve.🙏🏼
We wait for those toes to show us that they are going to survive.🙏🏼
Because for a bird like this, his feet are everything.🙏🏼
They allow him to stand in the water, balance, hunt, and survive. His future in the wild depends on them.🙏🏼
Right now, we are incredibly hopeful. 🙏🏼 We believe he has a very real chance of making a full recovery and returning exactly where he belongs but until that moment comes, he needs us.🙏🏼
And this beautiful boy has quite the appetite.
🐟 Approximately 500 MINNOWS. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. 🐟
That is what it takes to properly feed just ONE patient like him.
We are desperately fundraising for his care while we give his body the time it needs to heal. Every minnow, every medication, every day of supportive care and every safe night in our hospital brings him one day closer to freedom🙏🏼.
Please consider donating toward his care.🙏🏼
And please NEVER leave fishing line behind. Pick it up even if it isn't yours. 🙏🏼A few seconds of our time could prevent days of suffering for an animal who has absolutely no understanding of why he suddenly cannot free himself.🙏🏼
He didn't deserve to end up tangled.💔
He deserves to feel the water beneath his feet again🙏🏼
He deserves to spread those enormous wings, take to the sky, and never see the inside of our hospital again. 🙏🏼
For now, we will keep feeding him those 500 minnows a day, watching those toes, and fighting for the moment when we can open our hands and watch him fly away. 🙏🏼🪽
Please donate if you can. Please share if you can't.
Let's get this beautiful boy back to the wild. 🐟🩵

😂 WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU VEGETABLES… FIND THE NUTTER BUTTER. 🥕🥬🥦🍪Bailey was offered a beautiful assortment of fresh veggies...
08/10/2026

😂 WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU VEGETABLES… FIND THE NUTTER BUTTER. 🥕🥬🥦🍪
Bailey was offered a beautiful assortment of fresh veggies tonight , the kind of plate that says, “We care about your health, your recovery, and your nutritional needs.”
Bailey looked over the selection carefully…
And chose the Nutter Butter. 😂
Because apparently after everything this little groundhog has been through, he has decided life is too short to eat your vegetables first.🤣
Bailey’s restaurant review
⭐️⭐️ 2 out of 5 stars.
“Too many vegetables. Would return for the cookie.”
Don’t worry , the Nutter Butter was just a special treat. But after surviving a foothold trap, major surgery, and everything else thrown his way…
We think Bailey has earned the occasional cookie. ❤️
When life gives you lemons… Bailey says put them back and bring him a Nutter Butter. 😂🍪

💔💔💔💔I'm sorry to report that the decision was made to euthanize Jo after her vet exam.💔💔💔💔Written by Jessica "While it w...
08/09/2026

💔💔💔💔I'm sorry to report that the decision was made to euthanize Jo after her vet exam.💔💔💔💔
Written by Jessica
"While it wasn't necessarily an unexpected decision, she did give us a small bit of hope when she managed to get herself back up and walking over the first 24 hours. The first 2 nights she did surprisingly well and usually that's the more difficult part. Unfortunately the following night around 4 am she started seizing again. We were able to get it under control but her vet appointment revealed more of the damage that none of us were able to see prior and made it clear this was likely something she would not be able to overcome. She was kept comfortable the entire time and was not alone.
The pellet was was removed and with the amount of damage it left behind, I was surprised she survived as long as she did. Game Commission was updated and both them and local police are taking it seriously and have been in contact. I'm sure this will take some time to investigate but I do believe they will not be letting it go🙏🏼
I want to thank everyone for the massive amount of support surrounding Jo.

❤️ A HUGE SHOUT-OUT TO CHRIS FROM CLAWS 'N' PAWS! ❤️We truly cannot thank Chris enough for his incredible generosity and...
08/09/2026

❤️ A HUGE SHOUT-OUT TO CHRIS FROM CLAWS 'N' PAWS! ❤️
We truly cannot thank Chris enough for his incredible generosity and continued donations of Freshpet to our wildlife hospital. ❤️🐾❤️
Freshpet is something we go through incredibly quickly, especially with so many meat-eating patients in our care, and Chris has been absolutely amazing about stepping up and helping us keep those little (and not-so-little!) bellies full. 🦝🦊🦨🦅
Donations like these may look like bags of food, but to us, they represent full bellies, proper nutrition, healing, and one less expense we have to worry about while caring for thousands of animals🙏🏼.
Chris, your kindness and generosity have made a very real difference for our patients. Thank you for continuing to show up for wildlife and for supporting the work we do. ❤️
From all of us and from every furry and feathered belly you've helped fill THANK YOU! 🐾🐺🦊🦝🦨🐾🐢
Please help us show Chris from Claws 'N' Paws some love in the comments! ❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🩹❤️

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