08/24/2026
Please be patient with us. 🙏
At our Michigan Wildlife Rehabilitators Cohort earlier this year we learned that there were only 122 licensed wildlife rehabilitator permit holders in the entire state of Michigan, and only 776 sub permitees working under them. For context, all of our volunteers that help with the wildlife in any degree have to be sub permitted by law. This is an unpaid volunteer position, and many of us also work full time jobs outside of our rescue work to pay our bills and help support the work we do.
So please, be patient with us, be kind, and if you can donate to help support the important work we do, please do, because we can't do what we do without your support.
I shared this last year from Secret Squirrel Wildlife Rehab & I feel it needs to be shared again:
This helps to put in perspective why so many individuals have to wait to hear back from licensed wildlife rehabilitators & facilities. Why we can not always come out to pick up every animal we are called about.
Please remember, rescues & rehabilitators are not paid & we are not funded at all. It could be 1 person taking in calls, medicating, cleaning, & feeding wildlife plus their regular paying job, their family, their pets...plus all the things in between like getting supplies, going to the vet, repairs on enclosures, & the list could go on.
From about March to September many rehabilitators may average 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night if lucky. We are yelled at by a handful of individuals that truly have no idea what we do. We see more death & suffering than any of us cares to share & more than many could deal with.
Yes there are some bad rehabilitators but most are truly wonderful & very caring individuals that put themselves dead last to care for wildlife & to help the people calling.
Please be kind & patient! 💜
