Dear Friend to Wildlife:

Welcome to the first issue of “E-Tails”, the E-Bulletin of Austin Area Wildlife Rehabilitation.  We hope you enjoy these stories about animals your support has allowed us to assist.    

Austin Area Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc. is a public, 501(c)(3), nonprofit, all-volunteer organization operated by permitted rehabilitators and animal lovers. Our areas of focus are wildlife rehabilitation, public education and conservation.  For more information, visit our website at www.austinareawildliferehab.org.

Ike’s Tykes

Austin Area Wildlife Rehabilitation worked with TWRC (a Houston-based wildlife rehab group) to help care for the many animals displaced or injured because of Hurricane Ike.  We received 42 baby squirrels a few days after Ike blew them out of their tree-top nests.  These gray squirrels were bottle-fed and cared for over the next few weeks by our rehabbers and volunteers.  Eventually they were old enough to be on their own, but finding a good place to release them took some doing.  Gray squirrels are uncommon in Austin because this area does not provide the habitat they need, so we couldn’t release them here.  Their habitat in and around Houston was damaged by the storm, so we couldn’t release them there.  After some searching we found a ranch east of Red Rock Texas whose owners generously offered to let us release the squirrels on their property.   The babies were released on November 14^th and happily inhabit the pine trees there.

A volunteer feeds a squirrel orphaned by Hurricane Ike.

Smelling Freedom – a Hurricane Ike orphan is released near Red Rock, Texas.

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