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Michigan Duck Rescue and Sanctuary We are a Non-Profit 501(c)3 Charity Corporation, dedicated to the rescue, care, protection and housing of unwanted domestic waterfowl...Please read ABOUT

Back in the summer of 2006, I had the opportunity to rescue five Pekin ducks from a feed store in Novi. Having just moved into our home the year before, we had plenty of room (including one half of a 2 acre pond shared by my neighbor to the south - and THAT ends up being a whole other story by itself) for 5 little creatures that probably didn't need a whole lot of attention other than a feeding twice a day. WOW, what a hobby this turned out to be! Let me state this up front to get any thoughts of regret quashed immediately. What we do here is without question, an absolute 'labor of love'. I wouldn't give one bit of this up for all of the wealth in the world! I am surrounded by the greatest riches of Earth, Gods creations, and NOTHING can replace that!...tbc...

Have a few extra minutes this weekend, starting today at 2 o’clock? Please stop in the Novi Pet Expo and check out our b...
10/09/2026

Have a few extra minutes this weekend, starting today at 2 o’clock? Please stop in the Novi Pet Expo and check out our booth. We are again participating in this wonderful event! There are so many vendors participating, and it’s all about the animals! From dogs and cats to birds to horses and more! Oh yeah… And even Ducks, that’s where we come in!

So please, check out their schedule and walk around and support the vendors and what they do, and feel free to stop by our booth, we will have some merchandise on sale to help support the ducks, and we also have a little game set up where the kids can take home some fun prizes!

We also have a Volunteer sign-up sheet for anybody interested in giving volunteering a try at our sanctuary! It’s not for everybody, but it might just be for you!

A special shout out to Janeen, Jen and my wonderful wife Theresa, for setting up the display!

Thank you, hope to see you there!

09/30/2026

It’s always a little extra special when you get to watch some of the more handicapped angels get to enjoy the indoor pond at the Sanctuary. 💕 The pond is shallow enough that they can go in and out without risk of going too deep

Hopefully the format of this story is not too hard to follow. And hopefully it doesn’t sound too dramatic, as we avoid d...
09/25/2026

Hopefully the format of this story is not too hard to follow. And hopefully it doesn’t sound too dramatic, as we avoid drama here as much as possible. But these are actual copies of text messages with the timeline, just to show you what we have to deal with sometimes in the rescue world….

Sometimes the lies are obvious, sometimes not so. Maybe because we don’t want to believe them sometimes, we’re just more interested in getting the ducks than we are in lecturing the ignorant (lack of knowledge).

A very disturbing recent rescue shows how insensitive, heartless and cruel people really can be when it comes to animals, which were purchased with the wrong intent.

Here is how the texting started:

——-Aniya
*****mdrs

Friday, September 4, 1:30 PM
——-Hello, my name is Aniya. I live near some open land, and I recently came across two ducklings with no mother around. I’ve been keeping an eye on them, but I’m concerned about their safety and want to make sure they get to a safe place where they can be properly cared for.
I’m looking for a rescue or sanctuary who may be able to take them in. Please let me know if you’re able to help or if you can direct me to someone who can. I’m happy to provide pictures and any additional information about where I found them.
Thank you so much for your help! ❤️


Friday, September 4, 1:35 PM
***** Please send me a video of the ducklings

Then she sent me pictures of them…

Saturday, September 5 10:59 AM
——-Hi !! Any updates on if someone can take them by chance ? I don't want to let them back out my backyard in the wild but I can't keep them in my home any longer

12:28 PM
***** They will die if you put them in the back, I’m trying to figure this out.

12:29 PM
——-Ok thank you just keep me posted please ❤️

12:29 PM
***** Where are you located. You will probably have to bring them to us tomorrow. Where did you get them?

12:31 PM
——-I'm located in open land In Plymouth mi I found them on the road side of my home I can bring them tomorrow if that works best I just can't have them in my home after tomorrow and I have no other options

Sunday, September 6, 6:51AM
***** Can you be at our address at 11:30AM

8:13 AM
——-Someone picked them up already thanks ❤️

8:31 AM
***** I’m glad it worked out, can I ask where they went? Was it a nice safe place for them?

9:08 AM
——-Thank you so much I just wanted a safe home for them ..... Yes they went to a family farm !!! And no worries at all I totally understand !! 💗

I then responded to a call from my friend Lacey, who is a Wayne County mounted police officer out of Hines Park, who just texted during all of this, about a couple of baby ducks that were found along a trail on Hines Park around 6 AM Sunday morning, almost about the time I texted my address to the abusers.

When Lacey showed me a picture of them, I was so happy she found them, but also furious about the angels being put out in the wild sometime during the night. They were found while it was still dark out, and the maintenance people took them to Lacey immediately. Lacey knew to contact me, because she knew we would take them in a heartbeat. She is also a huge animal lover out there, and is always looking out for all the animals that are injured and dumped along the path.

She was just as disgusted as I was about the situation, and I gave her the little information I had regarding the abuser, and she assured me by the end of the next day she was going to visit them and ticket her for abuse. A win for the good guys!

Now, of course, I was still in a minor vent mode, and I had to at least say something to the abusers now that the ducks were safe, and these were the final texts. My very last one I’m going to leave out in the interest of it being a Sunday morning.

10:04 AM
***** If you wanted a safe home for them, you should’ve let us take them instead of leaving them out at the park for an animal to savagely attack them. There’s not much worse out there than a lying piece of s**t animal abuser.
Karma ALWAYS finds its way back home. Trust me!

11:30 AM
——-I didn't leave them at a park I went out to Chelsea and found a family farm for them !!!
Now if that family left them somewhere I know nothing about that the lady was name Lindsey that I left them with

11:31 AM
***** Sometimes it’s better to stop lying, just gets deeper. Yeah, they drove all the way back to Hines Drive not too far from your house to put them there. Pathetic.

11:39 AM
——-Glad you got them. Happy for you maybe you should have been a little quicker with your response. If you care that much you wouldn't have waited days to say hey we have a place. "Animal abuser", hmmm 🤔 you must be stupid cause the definition of that word is a person who intentionally harms, tortures, neglects, or kills an animal, and I don't seem to fit that description. Now you on the other hand fit that description seeing that your the one that we called that's suppose to be the Superman for ducks, see as though they where left abandoned from the beginning these where never my own ducks you never responded and we've been contacting you for days with no response. Seeing that's your job is to make sure ducks are safe you failed at it and neglected their safety because you were "busy" saving the world of ducks. But glad you finally got them. Oh and my home isn't a farm maybe yours is, and your mother is a lying piece of s**t….

And then of course, she had to bring my deceased mother into this… tells you a lot about someone…

And then she still tries to act like it wasn’t her fault and blamed it on the person she said she took it out to in Chelsea, which would have had to have been during the middle of the night, when in fact, she took it down the street to the park and dumped them there.

And then I sent her a picture of the same Tupperware container that the ducks were in that she sent me.

Also notice how the lies changed in her text, one minute somebody picked the ducks up, and a couple texts later, she took them to someone out in Chelsea, the so-called mysterious, loving family Farm, who was so loving, that they took them all the way back to Plymouth and dropped them back off a short distance from the abuser’s house.

There’s an old saying, ‘when you tell the truth, the story never changes’.

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Many of you might look at these pictures and say OK, déjà vu, same old, same old, just another rescue of some pekin duck...
09/21/2026

Many of you might look at these pictures and say OK, déjà vu, same old, same old, just another rescue of some pekin ducks, nothing more here.

But trust me, it goes a lot further and a lot deeper than that. To each and every duck we rescue, it’s a life-changing experience. Even though it might look like the same old thing over and over to you, each duck has most likely had some sort of heartbreak along the way.

Purchased maybe with good intent, maybe not, maybe fed properly in the beginning, most likely not, maybe be given shelter to some degree, most likely not, eventually dumped into a very unfamiliar environment, probably from the comfort of safety, to the complete unknown. Probably paid attention to for a couple of weeks as babies and told how cute they looked, maybe even a little bit longer, but probably not. Then eventually ‘set free’ because it’s ‘just a duck’, and it should do fine out in the wild.

In every case, regardless of the intent in the beginning, it’s a callus disregard for living, domestic animals to have to adjust to and endure. So many will never have the benefit of a rescue, and they will perish out in that unknown, without love, comfort, food, and protective shelter. They will never understand what they did to deserve such a fate. Only the heartless individual that tossed them out into the wild will understand that, and probably many of them are too cold to even think of the consequences that they’ve thrown upon an innocent creature, that by no fault of their own, were never given a proper chance to live a carefree life. Instead, they have to worry about every movement they hear in the night, and every thing they see during the day, and hope it doesn’t maim or even destroy them.

In this particular story, one lone duck showed up on the corner of the finders property, along a little lake shore in Linden, and a couple weeks later, three more discarded angels showed up to give him companionship. The four bonded quickly and stuck close together until the finder contacted.

Mike, of course, was quickly available, and made the fairly quick trip up to Linden to see what he could do. Just a short time later, with a little help from the finder, Mike was able to corral all four angels securely and bring them home to the Sanctuary.

Not only do the lives of the ducks change, but the dynamic at the Sanctuary changes as well. So many things are affected by one act of heartless abandonment.

Now more space is taken up, more food is consumed, more cleaning is necessary, more help is needed to care for the additional angels. Unfortunately, most people don’t see or understand the overall picture. Donations decrease over the years, people become less interested in volunteering, and the non-rescue people just continue on with their lives, maybe even just waiting for another story to read, while the impact on the rescue just continues to grow. And sadly at some point, there will be no donations to continue, no room for more angels needing a loving , and no help take care for them all. And then people begin to ask, what happened, why is there no longer a rescue to help the animals in desperate need? Some may just turn the page and move on, because that’s really the easiest thing to do, and some might think, maybe they should’ve done a little bit more. Well, it’s never too late to step up and be a part of something special. We know many people have their own lives, the TV shows they need to set aside their time for, their ME time, and many other important things going on around them.

A rescue organization is a wonderful place to meet new people with similar interests, and to also bring friends and family along with you, to share those new experiences. Thank you for reading this post!

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09/18/2026

This video always reminds me of my youth when the Swim-mobile used to come down our street in Detroit during a hot summer afternoon. Also reminds me of the times me and some friends would go to Brennan pool at Rouge Park in Detroit. Just love seeing all the ducks and their buddies having a fun time!

Hands-down, we have the best volunteers in the rescue business. How many people can you call on a moments notice and get...
09/11/2026

Hands-down, we have the best volunteers in the rescue business. How many people can you call on a moments notice and get an immediate response, followed with immediate action! We had several cases, one in mid June, one in mid July, and a couple at the end of July. We like to affectionately call these our east side girls, who are almost always available to help save any and all dumped domestic ducks in peril.

Aspen, who lives in the Shelby Township area, was visiting Ford Field, a park in Dearborn, in mid June, known as a common dumping ground for domestic ducks. She called me to to let me know that four domestic ducks were dumped at the park. She had already caught a few, and was hoping to get some assistance on the last, more difficult one.

I was able to get a hold of Mike, who had already passed the location after doing a rescue of his own, but by time he was able to get back there, Aspen and company had them all secured.

Almost a month to the day later, I got a call on a couple of dumped domestic Pekins just meandering across the street in a neighborhood in Rochester, completely dumped and confused. Aspen made it out there in a Michigan minute, it and it didn’t hurt that it wasn’t too far from her home this time. She managed to wrangle them up in no time flat.

Going for round three, this time it was Carol who notified me first of a couple of ducks she was not too familiar with. She happened to see two white ducks, nestled in a grassy area near a pond in front of the Foam Factory off of 23 Mile Rd. in Macomb. When she sent me the video, I explained to her what they were exactly, and she was going to attempt to get them. I was also able to get a hold of Aspen, who lived very close to this area, and she met Carol out there in the wink of an eye.

The starving angels were very food motivated, and with the help of Carol and her daughter, all three were able to finally secure them and get them ready for transport to the Sanctuary. A quick shout out to Danielle, who made several trips from the east side to the Sanctuary to bring the angels home.

The fourth rescue in this series happened the very next day when I got a call about three more domestic Ducks dumped on a residential street in Sterling Heights. They were wandering through the neighborhood aimlessly, looking for food and comfort. Carol and Aspen met out at this location as well, and were able to round them up to complete this saga.

So 11 more dumped domestic Ducks found their new home at the sanctuary during this short period. But these were not the only Ducks, these were just the Ducks from these two wonderful ladies from the east side please, and their rescue companions.

So once again, we’d like to thank everyone involved in rescues that should never have to take place to begin with. Sadly, as long as there are stores willing to sell them, and uninformed people willing to buy them and eventually dump them randomly throughout cities, parks, and waterways, we just hope that we continue to have wonderful volunteers willing to help clean up other people’s messes. And thank you to all the volunteers that help all the rescues throughout Michigan, the country and beyond. Selflessness has its own reward.

So many more angels to feed and care for… a four dollar donation can provide one bundle of straw to comfort a handful of angels. A five dollar donation can buy one bushel of corn, 56lbs., and a $12 donation can buy one 50lb bag of 16% protein layer pellets. Just for perspective, we easily exceed 130,000 pounds of whole corn in a calendar year. THANK YOU!!

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“GET RID OF” are the three of the most heartless words heard in all of rescuing…whether for dogs, cats, bunnies, ducks o...
09/01/2026

“GET RID OF” are the three of the most heartless words heard in all of rescuing…whether for dogs, cats, bunnies, ducks or any other pet. The words are compassionless and cold. Said freely, and usually without reservation.

Often insinuating a need to relieve the individual of a bothersome or inconvenient nuisance. In some cases, this may not be the intended directive, but in many, I assure you it is! Especially when it is followed by ‘today, or tomorrow’!

Pets are not trash, they are not yesterday’s news. It is not their fault that you made a very bad decision. It is not their fault that your whim or impulse didn’t fit into your very short term, unthought out plan.

Please just show even a little more compassion for the living creatures that you displaced for your experimental trial run.

‘Rehome’ is a much more caring term. I realize that some people don’t really think how they phrase things, but after 20 years of doing this, we have a good idea when certain people say. ‘Get rid of’, we know they’re real intention. But again, not all of them are from a heartless perspective. .

To the stores that sell them…it is easy to say people didn’t have to buy them and that it was their decision, which I wholeheartedly agree with, but if you think that can give you a clear conscience, and if you don’t think you could do a better job of informing purchasers of the dos and don’ts of animal ownership, especially ducks, which are a more uncommon breed of pet, then perhaps you really are a bigger part of the problem then you want to believe.

Please, all sides, do better!! For the animal’s sake!

On much more positive note, we received a call the other day about four domestic Pekin ducks that were apparently dumped in Fenton and showed up on the finders property. The first one showed up about a month ago, and the other three over the past week or two. Sadly, they were trying to live off the land, which for a domestic duck, is very difficult to do. They need the protection of secure housing, proper nutrition, and someone to care for them, someone much unlike the heartless individual that let them loose, to eventually suffer and die.

Within about an hour or two, Mike was able to make his way over there and scoop them up. The first couple of angels were less difficult than the final two, but all in all, they have found refuge here at the sanctuary.

If any of you have the ability to make even a small donation, it would be greatly appreciated. We know times are a little tougher than usual, and it is definitely felt throughout the rescue world. Everyone is vying for that fleeting dollar. We have so many stories to tell, but sometimes life gets in the way and we can’t tell them daily, even when we know that it is our lifeline to donations. Thank you!! So much going on, so little time, and so much to say, and we will!
Your support means the world to us!

And as always, volunteer opportunities are also what keeps us going! Two hours a week, for one day, can bring tremendous satisfaction into an another wise complacent life. Is there a two hour block, once a week in your life, that you could give up to help neglected animals in need? Two hours? Help us be a part of our next story!

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And just like that… She was in Heaven!In an extremely heartbreaking and unexpected  turn of events yesterday afternoon, ...
07/28/2026

And just like that… She was in Heaven!

In an extremely heartbreaking and unexpected turn of events yesterday afternoon, our little Mika Mama took that walk that every dog owner knows will someday come. But when it’s totally unexpected, the experience is sadly multiplied exponentially. Such was the case with our little angel Mika.

What was supposed to be a routine vet visit for some heartworm prevention medication and a basic checkup, turned into a very heart wrenching loss of the sweetest little stinker at the Sanctuary.

Mika was a 12 year-old, very independent prima donna that did everything on her terms. She would let you pet her on her terms, touch her on her terms, then just be near her on her terms. A few things she’d loved to do…run outside every Saturday morning and get her a special treat from Janeen, make rounds to the volunteers that she chose to be around, and cause havoc for her older brother Tex, who is seven times her weight and size.

Theresa had called me shortly into her visit with the vet, and told me I needed to get over there right away because Mika had a bad turn of events and was not doing well within an unexpected respiratory issue. Apparently the short time outside caused severe breathing issues, and after some x-rays, it was found that she had a massive growth in her upper chest area that was putting a lot of pressure on her esophagus. Apparently it was only allowing her to breathe through an area, the thickness of a piece of thick string. She was given anti-inflammatories and steroids to try to give her some relief, but after some time in the oxygen tent, she was having zero improvement.

The doctor thought she should be euthanized, which was absolutely unexpected and not going to happen. Theresa and I decided we would take her home and just pray for the best. And if things got so bad, she would either pass on her own or we would take her and have her euthanized ourselves. But she was going home, that was certain.

Unfortunately for me, on my way to meet them at the vet, I started to develop extreme abdominal pain, which ended up putting me in the ER shortly after I picked them up and was heading home, so Theresa had to take Mika home without me. I have still been unable see my Mika since she passed.

Mika was able to spend one comfortable hour in her home, on her bed. Tex got to see her one last time, and Theresa got to hold her as she crossed that threshold to become whole again, on the other side of that rainbow bridge, or she will rest under a weeping willow near the Crystal Pond, and greet each new arriving duck, that will someday join her, until we are all together again, once more.

One of the sweetest routines I will miss watching her do, is every night when Tex was led in to the basement to get a bath, she knew every time he was down there, and she would sit at the top step of the main floor, and when Tex would come up the stairs for the evening, she would bark one time, run at him and then just go about her business. She was just letting him know she was still the boss, even though we knew she had just missed him when he was outside all the day and she was just letting him know she was still there.

Thank you so much for caring enough to read about our angel!

Some people still can’t understand why we would give up three hours of our time, as in this particular instance, includi...
07/23/2026

Some people still can’t understand why we would give up three hours of our time, as in this particular instance, including travel and rescue time, and gas, about $20 this time, to save one domestic Duck that can be purchased at a farm store, for just a couple dollars. Sounds like a poor return on your money, doesn’t it? Well, in the rescue world, you’re definitely not in it to make money, you’re in it for the satisfaction you receive from the contentment that comes when the animal that you just rescued, melts in your arms, after having been tossed in the wild by individuals who have absolutely no business purchasing these angels to begin with.

When people might respond and say, “it’s just a duck”, my first thought is to say, you’re just an idiot! They are living, breathing creatures, that I am quite certain, have the soul of an angel. They feel the pain of starvation no differently than you would, they feel the pain of injury, no differently than you would, the only problem is, they depend on you to look after them and care for them. They are not brought into this world of their own accord, they are brought in for the greed of man to make a dollar. They don’t care what happens to these babies once they are purchased, they close their eyes to the everlasting pain that many of them will live through, in their normally short, and unfulfilled lives. They are pumped out by the tens of thousands for profit only. It is disgusting that we have so little regard for the life of any creature these days.

If you have never rescued an animal in your life, you could never understand the feeling when it’s over. If you have rescued, you completely understand why we do what we do.

I received a call yesterday from Brenna, the naturalist had Crosswinds Marsh, in the new Boston area almost an hour southeast of the Sanctuary. Since I was the only one available, I had to go out and try to catch this sweet pekin solo. Since I am very limited in my endurance as of late, I was hoping for a break of some type to make it easier.

When I arrived, I was taken to the site by two maintenance workers, where he was hanging out with some Canada geese buddies. It was actually sad in one respect, watching the dumped domestic Angel, trying to make friends with anything in the wild that might accept him.

He had no interest whatsoever in food, so that told me right off that this was not going to be easy. After about 15 minutes or so of watching him and trying to figure out his next step, Al, one of the maintenance guys, suggested I stick around for a few minutes because he’s likely to come out of the water soon. Since it was an almost hour trip, I figured I didn’t have much to lose, even though my better judgment was telling me to go back home and come back later with some reinforcements and the kayak. But I decided to wait. In a matter of what seemed like seconds, the candidate geese that he was hanging with just disappeared into the reeds, and in the blink of an eye, so did my target.

This was encouraging, because on the exit side of the reeds, was a lot of open land. I was able to drive my car around the path, but knew I had several hundred feet of walking to do just to see them, and that would not be an easy task.

Once I saw the Angel in the open with his adopted geese family, I was hoping for some backup from the maintenance guys who were busy on another project. As i got closer to them again, the Canada geese got a little leery of my presence, that they all started to takeoff and fly several hundred feet away, and my little sweet boy tried to lift off as well, but to no avail. Now the chase was on, and in a foot race, I would not be able to keep up with him in my current state of affairs.

Fortunately, there were three young ladies on their way to exiting the park, and I pretty much knew this would probably be my only chance to get him. I yelled across the distance and asked them if they could just come in my direction and sort of fan out a bit to help distract the duck, and they were very obliging. They figured some type of rescue might be going on and when I explained the situation afterward, they completely understood, and were taken quite a back, that someone would drop domestics off in a park and let them fend for themselves.

As the ladies came closer, the Angel was now preoccupied just enough that I was able to get close enough to drop the net on him! What could’ve made for a very long day, was shortened considerably by the help of passersby.

I found out from one of the maintenance guys that two white pekin domestic ducks had been spotted about a week ago, hanging out together, and about three days ago, one was nothing more than a pile of feathers, most likely attacked and killed from an aerial predator.

Sadly, his partner wasn’t available to be rescued, but when I held him in my arms for the walk back to my car, he literally melted in my arms with the feeling of relief that his chance of survival just improved one thousand fold.

He was very malnourished, and when he finally had a chance to have some food in a very comforting place, he ate like they always do after being tossed out in the wild, like there is no tomorrow.

So thank you to the three ladies that helped me get him secured, to be able to bring him back to the Sanctuary so quickly. And thank you Brenna for letting us know he was out there. She has notified us several times over the last couple years of similar situations.

If you were moved even slightly by the story, please consider donating just one dollar to one of the following links. One dollar, I promise it won’t change your life, but it will change the lives of the many rescues we make daily, weekly, and yearly! Just a single dollar, four quarters, or even the change that’s in your council, or the back of your sofa, on the countertop when you empty your pockets when you get home. We don’t ask for much, even though we need a lot!. Please remember, it’s not ‘ Just the Duck’!
Thank you very much!

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This wasn’t our first water rodeo by any stretch, and it also wasn’t our first at Flower Hospital ProMedica in Sylvania,...
07/13/2026

This wasn’t our first water rodeo by any stretch, and it also wasn’t our first at Flower Hospital ProMedica in Sylvania, Ohio either. So you might think it would have been fairly easy to get one dumped domestic Pekin boy. But after our first attempt failed miserably on our first day there, it sure felt like our first rodeo ever!

There are several ponds at this hospital, and we’ve probably been here close to a half a dozen times over the past few years rounding up the dumped Angels. When Mike and I arrived, we finally spotted this very relaxed boy sitting on one of their more accessible shores. We immediately thought if we could get down there quickly enough, we might be able to get there without pulling out the kayak. We probably didn’t get within 100 feet of him when he got very wise and sauntered into the pond, looking to have some fun with us.

So out came the kayak. Michelle, our finder, stood off to the side with one of the security guards, Chloe, and were probably expecting a quick rescue themselves.

For some reason, there was a whole lot of movement of the water, and the aerator pumps I’m sure didn’t help, as well as the wind came over the berm, just enough to make things a little more difficult than usual. After probably a good half hour in the kayak myself, I was completely exhausted, fighting the challenging undercurrent. I then turned the paddle over to Mike, who thought he would be in and out of there in no time. Well, Mike threw in the towel after about only 20 minutes, knowing this was not going to work with one kayak, especially when the playful angel started doing the underwater getaway. To some, it may have been comical watching from a distance, but knowing we would have to make the hour long trip each way back-and-forth the next day, he didn’t leave us laughing.

Fortunately, the next day we had help from Colleen, who helped us on a bigger rescue in Ohio a few months back. She sometimes volunteers with Nature‘s Nursery, a very nice organization not too far from the Toledo area. When Natures Nursery moved into their new facility this past year, they were very generous in donating some of their supplies to our rescue. They had donated several useful items that were very helpful to MDRS.

Colleen came, kayak in tow, and was waiting there with her kayak at the shore when we arrived the next day.

When we finally sort of came up with the game plan, Colleen was already in the water, paddling in the direction of Clyde (the name given by some of the hospital staff), while I was struggling on high ground, trying just to get the kayak to move in the water. Before I could finally get deep enough to turn it, Colleen had run Clyde on shore, and Mike was able to net him quickly.

It seems like Clyde was not in the mood to play today, and was looking for a quick rescue back to the Sanctuary, where he would have friends and food, and his forever home, that eluded him since his unnecessary purchase!

Thanks to everyone who played even the smallest of roles in finding help for this sweet baby! And especially to the Security at the hospital, that allowed us to make the effort to get this angel safely removed and rehomed!

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Zelle: 248-446-2021

Cash App: $lyson

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111 S. Lafayette Unit 284
South Lyon, MI
48178

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