Native Animal Rescue’s Really Big Year
Most of Santa Cruz knows about Native Animal Rescue for its work rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured, sick and orphaned wild animals back to the wild. But did you know that Native Animal Rescue also works to: —increase the understanding of and respect for...
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The Importance of Wildlife Rescue Partners
Wildlife rescue organizations work together in order to provide the best available care to injured, sick and orphaned wildlife. One of Native Animal Rescue's vital partners is International Bird Rescue. International Bird Rescue cares for sick, injured, abused, and...
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The Case for Indoor Cats
By The Wildlife Center of Virginia Help wildlife, cats, and the environment by keeping cats indoors! While most of us love our kitties, free-roaming outdoor cats are a major threat to wildlife. These non-native predators kill billions of birds, small...
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Get to Know Your Neighbors
A working knowledge of natural history could reduce a lot of the unintentional harm we do to wildlife. By Tai Moses Here’s a troubling fact: many of the fawns brought to wildlife rescue centers in spring have accidentally been “kidnapped” by people who mistakenly...
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Santa Cruz County Catio Tour 2016
Update: First Catio Tour...Success! On April 9, 2016, Native Animal Rescue and the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter co-hosted a free self-guided tour of 11 Santa Cruz County catios located from Boulder Creek all the way to Watsonville. A catio is an outdoor enclosure...
read moreAn Ounce of Prevention…Check Trees Before Trimming
By California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators Every year wildlife rehabilitators across the nation receive orphaned and/or injured baby tree squirrels because they have lost their nest trees due to tree trimming and removal. Tree squirrels typically mate twice a...
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Fake Halloween Cobwebs Pose Real Threat to Birds
Halloween and Christmas decorations can harm birds and wildlife. That's not fun. by Tai Moses Oct. 25, 2015—One recent Halloween, a Marin family opened their door to a particularly raucous trick-or-treater only to find a live Western screech owl hanging upside-down...
read moreHigh number of coyote reporting continues in Santa Cruz County
By Samantha Clark, Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ >> Coyotes have been emerging from the shadows in Santa Cruz County likely because of drought conditions, worrying residents and hikers who have been reporting a rise in sightings for months. As the clever canines...
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Starved sea birds overwhelming Native Animal Rescue
By Samantha Clark, Santa Cruz Sentinel LIVE OAK >> A troubling number of starved and weak seabirds are washing ashore on beaches from the Monterey Bay to Alaska at a similar rate not seen since past severe El Niño years. Scientists think that ever-warmer conditions in...
read moreSquirrels in the Attic? Pointers on Humane Wildlife Removal
This wonderful article describes one family's discovery about when and how to "evict" wildlife that has taken up residence in their house. Best advice, in a nutshell, "let the squirrels hunker down until they are ready to leave the attic on their own, and then provide...
read moreLocal family reunites baby squirrel with its mother
This is the story of how local residents Kimberly, Doug, and their daughter, Faith reunited a baby squirrel with its mother after the baby had fallen out of its nest located in a nearby tree. After checking to ensure the squirrel wasn’t injured, the family placed the...
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Was this fawn kidnapped?
Every spring and summer, concerned people find and rescue fawns that seem to have been abandoned by their mothers. In reality, healthy baby fawns are frequently left alone for up to twelve hours while their mothers forage for food. In past years, a high percentage of...
read moreNative Animal Rescue sees an influx of creatures needing care
SANTA CRUZ >> Step into Native Animal Rescue’s Live Oak office these days and you’ll find yourself surrounded by young animals. Baby birds peeking their heads out of a small basket, chirping for food. A young skunk smaller than a puppy. Young deer with thin legs and...
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