How You Can Help Us Save Wildlife Today!
Welcome to Wildlife's 2nd Chance Rescue!
Our mission at Wildlife's 2nd Chance Rescue is to rescue and rehabilitate sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife in our community.
We provide medical care and a safe haven for animals in need to the best of our ability.
Our goal is to release these animals back into the wild once they are healthy and ready to return to their natural habitats.
Frequently asked questions:
Q. Does "Wildlife's 2nd Chance Rescue" come and rescue the wildlife animal wherever and whenever there is need?
A. Per case-by-case basis ~ Yes, we often go off site and give aid to homeowners, Law Enforcment, and the good Samaritan's in the world who contact us for help.
That being said, Crenna cares full time for the 3 special need handicap children we adopted and unfortunately is not able to jump right in the car to provide aid in rescue at moment's notice!
We do what we can and often have stand by sitters for the occasional emergency. Crenna's Husband Jay is often on route to and from northern Michigan in his Semi truck during the week at his day job.
Jay is often available late evening and weekends for such task along with other chores on the property!
Q. Nuisance control ~ Does "Wildlife's 2nd Chance Rescue" provide nuisance control services!
A. No, our rescue does not operate by offering such services. Other businesses offer such services and fall under strict guidelines by law enforcement to provide those services!
How You Can Help
#1
When you find or see a wild animal in need of care ~ Be very cautious - Your Safety Is Our Number One Concern. Wild animals who are either hurt or scared can do a lot of harm in their mode of flight or fight! In their world ~ Everything means life or death!
#2
Contact us Wildlife's 2nd Chance Rescue ASAP (269) 300-8744 - We can help evaluate the situation and offer assistance in projecting the best plan for helping the animal ~ Sometimes the animal requires less help than what we humans initially think - for instance - when a fawn or fox kits are found by humans ~ seemingly abandoned! In these cases, clues can be evaluated somewhat by our experience - as the mothers often leave their young as they sleep - to go forage or hunt and often come back for their young! Just an informative fact here ~ Wild Animals raise and often leave their young in close proximity to human houses as a protection from other wildlife predator's!
Sometimes ~ Mama's do NOT make it back to their babies! Rarely will a mama abandon their young ~ Most of the time, when babies are in fact orphaned it is due to vehicular impact accidents, wildlife predators doing what they do in nature to survive, and nuisance control and sometimes unethical treatment of the critter's life by humans! Sad to acknowledge ~ But as a human race ~ Some of our kind ~ are cruel and in-humane!
We are not tree huggers here or anything like that, well ~ on occasion we do hug a tree and even a cactus now and then but that is beside the point!
For the record and to be clear ~ We are not anti-hunting activist, and PETA has no welcome place here!
However, we do believe in the sanctity of life of all creatures and the basic ethical behavior towards harvesting meat for consumption!
#3
Contact Law Enforcement!
If possible ~ Call your non-emergency number by google search local city, county or state police or the DNR office!
If you cannot find such information readily available ~
911 will due - When the dispatch operator prompts you ~ "What is your emergency" Reply calmly, and state that "This is a non-emergency call request for assistance by local authorities for aiding a wounded wild animal!
This is third on our list for 2 reasons!
Law Enforcement first move is to secure your safety, and their second move is to - contact Wildlife's 2nd Chance Rescue any ways!
Most of the officers on duty do not have experience with helping wildlife!
And sometimes their idea of dealing with injured wildlife is to UN-ALIVE the animal!
Unfortunately, sometimes this method is actually required, and we are appreciative of Law Enforcment's Assistance in these matters!