For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue

For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue Licensed wildlife rehabilitation and education facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Happy Pride Month!! This picture of T’challa is from 2021 but it is the best photo I have ever taken of any animal, so I...
06/01/2026

Happy Pride Month!!

This picture of T’challa is from 2021 but it is the best photo I have ever taken of any animal, so I will never let a June pass without sharing it again. 🏳️‍🌈

Rain is giving me a demonstration of why raccoons need their water changed so frequently.[Description: a baby raccoon, s...
06/01/2026

Rain is giving me a demonstration of why raccoons need their water changed so frequently.

[Description: a baby raccoon, similar to a small adult in appearance and weighing about two pounds, stands over a large blue bowl and looks toward the camera. The water in the bowl is visibly yellow.]

We have about four hundred teeny tiny little lives in one of our currently unoccupied turtle ponds. A mom less than a mi...
05/31/2026

We have about four hundred teeny tiny little lives in one of our currently unoccupied turtle ponds. A mom less than a mile away from us went to empty out her kids’ little pool, which was full of mosquito larvae, to prepare it for use this summer, and realized it was actually teeming with hundreds of tadpoles.

There are a lot of people who encounter this and simply dispose of the tadpoles without a second thought, which is a tragedy. Amphibians are facing an extinction crisis, with over 40% of amphibians currently threatened with extinction. Every little pinhead-sized tadpole is precious. And, since they have a brain and a central nervous system, we know that they can experience pain and fear just like us. We’re thankful she thought twice and called us!

It’s important to be aware that amphibians should never ever be relocated more than a mile or two, and ideally even less than that. Amphibians spend their entire lives in small areas, where the natural bacteria and fungi on their skin are unique to each individual neighborhood. Moving a frog or tadpole even a few miles can introduce pathogens to a new population that can’t tolerate them. Luckily, these little dudes are our neighbors and could be relocated— or rehabilitated— or relocabilitated. We’re not counting them as individual patients but we’ll be keeping them fed and protected while they finish growing.

If you’ve got tadpoles in your kiddie pool— it happens this time of year— please consider simply letting them be if you can. You can control the mosquito larvae with Mosquito Dunks, which are nontoxic to amphibians. Your kids can experience the joy of watching baby frogs grow up! But if you absolutely must empty the pool, please relocate the tadpoles to a safe body of water less than half a mile away and contact a rehabilitator if that is unavailable.

Let’s all work together to keep our tiniest and most helpless neighbors safe. 🐸

Spartacus the eastern box turtle was one tough case! This fellow had vitamin A deficiency and infections in his eyes, ea...
05/31/2026

Spartacus the eastern box turtle was one tough case! This fellow had vitamin A deficiency and infections in his eyes, ears , and nose. This group of symptoms is typically associated with exposure to organochlorine pesticides. He needed oral and injected vitamin A, several courses of antibiotics, over a month with an esophogostomy tube, and draining of a large aural abscess. It took eight months of care in total before he was stable, eating voluntarily, and fully ready to go home. Your support makes it possible for animals like him to receive the care they need, for as long as they need. With box turtle populations declining across the country, every breeding-age adult is precious and their lives are worth fighting for. Thank you for helping us save him.

How T’challa’s evening is going:
05/31/2026

How T’challa’s evening is going:

05/30/2026

Thank you to Sarah Hower and News Channel 9 for running this story! We love what we do! 💜And thank you to spicy little Tate for bringing your attitude to the newsroom.

05/29/2026

I will never recover from this.

05/29/2026

Any parent who has ever told a nursing toddler “no,” or tried to take away a kid’s pacifier, will understand exactly what’s happening here. 😅 They will survive this injustice, despite what they’d have you think.

[Description: the third row of a four-level cage, lined with blankets. Three raccoon kits knead and suckle on their blankets while pacing and looking plaintively toward the camera. The camera briefly pans to their sibling, asleep on the top level. Overlaid text says that they are being gradually weaned from the bottle and are unhappy about it but have both solid food and formula available to them.]

Have you ever heard of a doctor treating disease this way? When a doctor is in the mall and sees somebody coughing and s...
05/29/2026

Have you ever heard of a doctor treating disease this way? When a doctor is in the mall and sees somebody coughing and sneezing, they don’t come back and leave a bowl of candy laced with Tamiflu.

That would be a bad idea for a number of reasons. The doctor can’t make a diagnosis from a glance, doesn’t know the person’s weight, doesn’t know if they might be allergic to an ingredient, and doesn’t even know if they’ll be back in that shopping mall any time soon. Medicated candy could easily go to the wrong person, including a small child who would be poisoned by an adult dose.

The same is true for wildlife. It’s dangerous to put medicated food outdoors and simply hope for the best. An animal that is sick enough to need treatment is sick enough that it needs to be captured and brought to a wildlife rehabilitator. There, it can receive a correct diagnosis, an individualized treatment plan, and all the supportive care and monitoring it might need.

If you have spotted a sick animal, the kindest thing that you can do is to set a cage-style humane trap and bring the animal to your local wildlife rehabilitators. Please don’t try to medicate a wild animal yourself.

Rose is one drop-dead gorgeous young vixen! 🥰 She and her brother Briar arrived here several weeks ago, after their moth...
05/29/2026

Rose is one drop-dead gorgeous young vixen! 🥰 She and her brother Briar arrived here several weeks ago, after their mother was shot for accepting the chickens that were placed right outside in her territory. Briar and Rose didn’t deserve to lose their parents just because their parents fed them what was available. 😢 Fortunately, both of these youngsters are doing well. Briar is constantly stressing us with his attempts to escape, but those tell us he’s smart and resourceful. Rose is more shy than her brother but has made friends with Naomi and Marie. We’re proud of all five of our red foxes this year! It will be so wonderful to see them running free in the wild. Thanks for making it all possible!

[Description: a red fox, similar in appearance to an adult and weighing about foue pounds, stands on top of a dog igloo and looks toward the camera.]

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