I do recommend them as a rescue and to always continue to donate to rescues, because they do mean…read morewell, and do help SO MANY precious souls out there that need it. However, I personally just had. THE WORST EXPERIENCE WITH THEM WITH A LOVED WILD ONE!! That left me and my entire family with so much anger, broken hearts, distrust, and disappointment. That we went from wanting to work with and support this center to avoiding it at all costs!! There's many out there, with more compassion, and trust than this!! That we will forever devote our money, donations, and time too. Definitely, not somewhere That's going to treat their COMMUNITY LIKE THIS!! I went through this 3 years ago!! During Covid, and was treated so respectfully by local rehabilitaters, vets, helped even, and given an opportunity to release my Slinky into the wild which I did!! She Thrived and was so happy!! Here at THWC I was so disrespected, judged IMMEDIATELY, and not EVEN GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE MYSELF TRUTHFUL & LOYAL to this lil squirrels well being, like I have always been!! In the past. (During Covid) Fish & Wildlife even let me prove myself. Now my families heart are shattered to bits, our baby is all alone out in a foreign Forrest, to start all over, when he had a perfectly good home that he was born in OUTSIDE IN A TREE here, that he's familiar with, Scents that he's familiar with. All because they didn't want to take a moment to communicate & just listen. They had already made their minds up about me, judging me as this awful individual, that "supposably cages, and abuses squirrels!! At least the last lady I spoke to on the phone MADE IT CLEAR THATS HOW THEY FELT!! He wasn't caged much at all, I have video to prove it!! I fed him proper foods, vegetables, berries, vitamins. Seeds, insects, leaves, nuts, wood etc. He was healthy!! They kept trying to tell me he was a young adult based on his weight!! I knew he wasn't a young adult!! He was only several months old at most!! I KNOW WHEN HIS MAMA WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED, and I checked her nesting box the next morning for babies just in case, and there were!! I have VIDEO!! So, I know for a fact he wasn't an adult and they kept insisting he was based on his weight saying I was being untruthful!! So I sent them over actual video, and photos of my husband putting a selfie stick in the nesting box on May 7, 2023 the very first day we discovered them!! Definitely NOT a young adult!! He was a very healthy juvenile squirrel!!
I'm not sure about this place on how trustworthy they are with keeping their word and actually "working" with their community. After looking at their FB page, they only post when they receive something or about an animal. They don't interact with the community much. With this experience alone I don't think I will EVER CHOOSE to work with them again. I do understand that these precious animals are wild but you CAN have a healthy relationship with wildlife too, if you do your research, and learn about them, and learn to cohabitate. Their lives in towns are being destroyed with all the building and destruction of trees. I'm trying to do what's best for them, by putting up extra nesting boxes, or foraging supplies for fall winter. I have zero intention of caging them or keeping them. I have a little wildlife zoo out back in my yard because of where I live and I love it. With all my little Chickadees, California Scrub Jays, goldfinch, squirrels hummingbirds, raccoons, opossums. Every year there's babies. I don't want them caged!! Where I live is a squirrels dream. All you did was separate us for all of us to suffer, what good comes out of that?? Dinkie was going to be free within days!! Why would you be so cruel, and do this?? He was in no danger, or injured. EVER?! Upon healthy evaluation, if you had only taken a moment to check my address, to see where I live, I'm surrounded by farmland, Forrest, and ocean, right next to Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge!! I sent photos and video of the perfect outdoor life he'd have, but obviously, you didn't consider ANY OF IT!!
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