Critter Crossing Rehabilitation

09/02/2026

No clever caption, just Nyx enjoying a snack on a rainy day 🤎

09/01/2026

Are you a wildlife rehabilitator, subpermit, volunteer, student, or interested in the field?
Here’s a wonderful opportunity to learn or earn CE credits!
As a flagship board member of Michigan Association of Wildlife Rehabilitation, I can tell you that we’ve poured a ton of time, love and planning into this event to offer a quality educational experience to help advance our field!

This is the first time something this has ever been offered in our home state. Please join us! 🤎

‼️**REGISTRATION EXTENDED**🐿️

We have been contacted by several rehabilitators who missed the registration deadline by a hair. Whether your hands were full with babies or your mind was at capacity—we get it! We have reopened registration until THIS FRIDAY, September 4th.

MAWR Continuing Education Conference
Registration Includes:

-6 Hours of MI-DNR approved continuing education
-Two different tracks of qualified speakers on quality topics
-Breakfast
-Lunch
-A MAWR logo tote bag
-Two raffle tickets to use for our raffle items
-Admission into Howell Nature Center's "Wild Wonders Wildlife Park".
-Networking Opportunities
-Digital Copies of all sessions sent post-event

Please also note that we will not be having a cohort this year, as the cohort was a placeholder while our organization was becoming established with the goal being executing a quality continuing education conference for you all.

Registration to our CE conference is open to ALL...members, non-members, students, sub permittees. Any one with an interest in wildlife rehabilitation is welcome to join us.

08/31/2026

Mink Release🤎

Also a gentle reminder that these guys are semi aquatic and are constantly making a mess of their pool and enclosure even though it’s cleaned daily. Unless you want to donate 50k for a concrete bottom pool and a pump house, please be nice and take that into consideration before judging the mess.

08/23/2026

This special girl. 🦊

I could sit in there with her all day. She is absolutely content in her retirement here. Most of the time, she’s snoozing and doesn’t even hear me walk up to her enclosure.

Imagine living your whole life in a small wire cage, never touching solid ground, getting bred back to back for the fur trade. Getting rescued, placed into immediate safety, and then you end up here eating gourmet chicken snacks.

I don’t know how much time she has left, but we will be damn sure to make the best of it!

08/11/2026

This is the fox that Saveafox Corporation’s Mikayla Raines daughter, Freya, was in love with and named “Butterfly” at her liberation from the fur farm 🥹 so it’s pretty cute to see my own toddler now interact with her.

Her name was then changed to “Nyx”, which my 2 year old can’t quite say…so she calls her “Mix” 😂

If you can’t tell, she’s settling in well. Enjoying peace, quiet, space, and LOVES digging (hence the dirt on her snoot) and loves burying her loot (cheese snacks).

She’s going in to see our vet on Thursday for a complete work up and evaluation so we can make sure she’s as comfortable as possible in her old age.
💜

08/10/2026

I just wanted to thank everyone for your continued support this baby season. Even though baby season looks much different for me now with only accepting minks & weasels, it was still a good deal of work and your support kept these fierce little cuties fed.

Thank you, endlessly!
Look how “bad to the bone” this not-so-little-anymore baby is. 🥹

08/07/2026

She’s here. 🥹 Meet “Nyx”. Originally rescued by Saveafox Corporation from the fur farm of 500 foxes.

She was initially placed with Felix Foundation Fox Sanctuary, but unfortunately—maybe due to her old age—was no longer getting along with her cage mate and needed placement because of safety and space limitations.

Welcome home, pretty girl.
🖤

08/05/2026

I meant to post this on Friday, whoops.
Thank you to everyone for your help! We are picking up our new 🦊 friend tomorrow!

07/28/2026

Holy smokes, you guys rallied hard! We are already over halfway to our goal. I was NOT expecting that. So as promised, here’s a cheesy video with Turnip! I hate doing these. Excuse my awkwardness and constant swatting of mosquitos.

(Disclaimer: it is illegal to rehabilitate wild skunks in Michigan. In addition to our MI-DNR Wildlife Rehabilitation Permit, Critter Crossing Rehabilitation also holds a Captive Game permit to legally house captive bred native animals, like skunks, as well as a Scientific Collector’s Permit to keep non-releasable wild-born native animals for educational programs.)

07/28/2026

We’ve been presented with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to a geriatric rescued fur farm fox. While I’m delighted to do so, it will require a bit of funding to get her vetted and set up here.

I’m launching a campaign today in hopes we will get to a place that I can continue to comfortably afford to feed our other non-releasable ambassador animals as well as our mink and weasels that are pending release AND to prepare for our new foxy friend.

Can you help us raise $500 in the next 7 days?
I’ll post a campaign video update every time we hit $100 featuring one of our ambassador friends.

Ready, set, GO! 🦊