IMPORTANT NOTICE: Temporarily Closed Until May 25th

May 11, 2018August 25, 2022

Operation Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc. will be closing down both admissions and the phones from May 11^th – May 25th. We are BUSTING at the seams and all of our efforts have to be on the animals currently in our care.

Please go to Division of Wildlife website at http://www.owra.org and check their Rehabilitator list for help.

If you find an animal or bird, find out what to do until you can get it to a rehabilitator by visiting our RESCUE PAGE.

Educational Animals

MANY THANKS!

My heart is touched by the generosity of people at this hard, stressful and trying time. Operation Orphan can only exist by donations and YOU came thru for the animals. Thank you to each person that sent a check in the mail or ordered items from Amazon Smiles to help us out. Your donations make…

Introducing “Thelma and Louise”

Drum roll please… I’d like to introduce to you our newest education animals at Operation Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc., Thelma and Louise! These two opossum sisters came to us earlier in the week from The Ohio Wildlife Center in Columbus. Their center has a program at the local Marysville prison where inmates help to raise…

PLEASE THINK HARD BEFORE BUYING A PET THIS EASTER…BUY AN ANIMAL BOOK INSTEAD!

The two ducklings in the photo below were brought to me after they were found behind a motel where someone had recently dumped them. They were no more than a week old and would have died of hypothermia had they not been found. Normally I would not take a domestic animal, but the people who…

Returning to the Wild

All too often I come across stories of wildlife that are euthanized, die of starvation or die in captivity due to improper care or killed by homeowners because they become a nuisance. This often happens because someone thought they could raise an orphaned animal on their own. There is so much that goes into preparing…

We’ve been doing something new!

The last several Thursdays Operation Orphan has been joining the Barberton elementary schools for an afterschool ‘Animal Club’ . Fran brings in baby groundhogs, baby bunnies, and a baby squirrels and more, then talks to the kids about each. It has been one of the highlights of Fran’s week! To learn more about Operation Orphan…

Birds | Educational Animals | Mike | Ohio | Osprey

Sometimes You Just Have To Go With What You Have

Last year, a call came in that an Osprey nest had come down with three young birds. They were almost old enough to take first flight. We had gotten so much rain that the nest was saturated with water and it broke loose from its resting place in the tree. Osprey nest high in the…