ANIMAL STORIES:

Critter Care now have two resident therapy goats. They came to Critter Care just a few days old and bottle fed. The bigger one, a male, is named Prince and the other is a female named Violet.

These two characters have a permanent home at Critter Care to help staff and interns

de-stress and enjoy. The work we do at the Centre is often demanding and hard. These two little angels allow staff and interns to play and give them affection as we cannot do this with wildlife with whom we need to keep human contact with wildlife to a minimum. After a tough day there is nothing more uplifting than a goat trying to climb on your back and wanting to snuggle up with you. They are a great asset to the Society.

Mustard and Marmalade

Mustard and Marmalade were released on October 13^th. They arrived at Critter Care in May of this year and were bottle fed. Marmalade ruled the roost in the group from the get-go. She was very devoted to her man Mustard. Mustard came into care at 4 weeks old with a very spicy attitude; this is the reason behind his name. He has always been independent and liked his space.

These two have matured into responsible otters and have excelled in fishing and exhibiting natural behaviors. Their release was incredible, they both took to the water beautifully and found food within 5 minutes of their release. We wish them both the best and hope for lots of babies!! The other 7 we have in care will be released next Spring once they have perfected their fishing techniques and acquired the correct behaviors.

Choccy Boy

On the morning of September 26^th, we had a call from a member of the public who had trapped an injured young raccoon in her house. We could tell from photos they had sent that he was skinny, small and had an injury on his shoulder.

when we admitted him we sedated him for examination and found he had a huge abscess on his shoulder. When lanced it drained over 60ml of fluid! We were unsure whether he would be able to recover from such a large injury as this leaves a lot of chances of infection take over.

Luckily, with frequent medication, cleaning and TLC the wound remained clean and healed nicely. He is still far too small to be on his own so he will join a group and stay over winter with us where he will receive all the love and adoration he deserves! He is a fighter.

Tony & Eleanor

The latest two cubs that have come in came from Coquitlam. The male and female are around 40 pounds each, too big and too awake by the time they arrived to get an accurate weight. They certainly appreciate their grapes and apples. They did not, however, appreciate their nice, warm straw in their shed.

After receiving their last food plate for the day, they dragged all of the straw out of the shed and used it to cover the ground of their isolation enclosure. It sure was fun to clean up the next day! We can’t really hold it against them though; they are rather cute!

Unfortunately they are too small to join any of our seven other cubs, so will create the third cage of bears that will stay with us till next spring.

CENTRE UPDATE:

Out with the old and in with the new! 

We just completed the construction of our freezer shed. Our previous freezer shed was only able to house 3 chest freezers. It’s not uncommon for your average household to have 1 or 2 of these. When you are feeding the number of animals we do and at times 20+ interns, this simply wasn't enough; we would empty them as fast as we filled them. We are thrilled to have a brand new freezer shed that can now hold 6+ jumbo chest freezers. Storage shouldn't be an issue for us anymore.

Paving our way to the future 

Our driveway and parking lot has always been an issue for us. Since it was gravel it was prone to potholes and in the summer months it created so much dust. We were forever having to dust the office.



We are so happy to have finally completed this project. We paved nearly 7,300 SQ.FT! 

New Materials Shed & Machinery Shed

We are building new things every day and our previous materials shed was far too small and old, it was time to upgrade! This will be the new home of all of our lumber and machinery such as lawn mowers/pressure washers/gators etc.

Small Animal Nursery Extension 

Our small animal nursery has now doubled and can comfortably accommodate the amount of animals we rehabilitate. Previously this building was 588SQFT, Once complete it will sprawl over 1,200 SQFT!