What We Do:
Here's what we DO: Roubideau Rim Wildlife Rescue (RRWR) volunteers to care for sick, injured, orphaned and habituated wildlife for release back into appropriate habitats. We train, and work with Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Audubon volunteers, individuals who provide wildlife capture, transport and release. Brenda can also sponsor and train future wildlife rehabbers. Brenda takes wildlife calls around the clock, and assist local animal control agencies with wildlife issues. Brenda is licensed to care for everything except bears and mountain lions. She'd like to care for them, however, caging is very expensive.
Brenda and volunteers also write stories for newspapers, collect and transport food, put together fundraisers, maintain website and Facebook pages, build cages and other important jobs for RRWR. Brenda does public, educational programs which all help raise funds to care for wildlife.
During baby season (spring and early summer) Brenda is often up through out the night feeding and heating up hot water bottles for some species. Donations go towards paying for veterinary services of xrays, exams, surgery, meds, bandages, etc.
Below are some photos of a nestling raccoon--eyes and ears are closed. These babies required feeding every 4-6 hours, hot water bottles to keep them warm, and stimulated to urinate and defecate every time they are fed.
If there are no licensed wildlife rehabilitators in a community----then wildlife is put down/killed/euthanized. Brenda is licensed by Colorado Parks & Wildlife, and she holds a Federal Migratory Bird Permit thru US Fish & Wildlife Services.
We also provide carcass/dead animal removal such as a deer that has died in someone's yard. Minimum charge is $75.00 plus mileage if we drive 15 miles or more. The animal is butchered, the meat frozen and used to feed other wildlife.
Brenda and volunteers also write stories for newspapers, collect and transport food, put together fundraisers, maintain website and Facebook pages, build cages and other important jobs for RRWR. Brenda does public, educational programs which all help raise funds to care for wildlife.
During baby season (spring and early summer) Brenda is often up through out the night feeding and heating up hot water bottles for some species. Donations go towards paying for veterinary services of xrays, exams, surgery, meds, bandages, etc.
Below are some photos of a nestling raccoon--eyes and ears are closed. These babies required feeding every 4-6 hours, hot water bottles to keep them warm, and stimulated to urinate and defecate every time they are fed.
If there are no licensed wildlife rehabilitators in a community----then wildlife is put down/killed/euthanized. Brenda is licensed by Colorado Parks & Wildlife, and she holds a Federal Migratory Bird Permit thru US Fish & Wildlife Services.
We also provide carcass/dead animal removal such as a deer that has died in someone's yard. Minimum charge is $75.00 plus mileage if we drive 15 miles or more. The animal is butchered, the meat frozen and used to feed other wildlife.
Helpful TIP:
LEAVE WILDLIFE ALONE! Confine dogs and cats, control children and watch from a distance with binoculars. By picking up wildlife, you risk the possibility of getting sick from disease, and/or spreading it to pets and livestock. You may be taking something away from its mother. You could get bitten, or kicked. All too often, people "rescue" wildlife thinking they are helping something, when the mother is away feeding or sleeping, or the creature has been abandoned because the mothers knows something is wrong with it----it is not meant to survive. Sometimes, trying to save a creature can be cruel.
LEAVE WILDLIFE ALONE! Confine dogs and cats, control children and watch from a distance with binoculars. By picking up wildlife, you risk the possibility of getting sick from disease, and/or spreading it to pets and livestock. You may be taking something away from its mother. You could get bitten, or kicked. All too often, people "rescue" wildlife thinking they are helping something, when the mother is away feeding or sleeping, or the creature has been abandoned because the mothers knows something is wrong with it----it is not meant to survive. Sometimes, trying to save a creature can be cruel.