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07/31/2025

📣 Understanding Opossums: Georgia’s Unsung Wildlife Helpers 🐾

Often misunderstood, the opossum is one of Georgia’s most beneficial and harmless native species. Here are a few important facts to help you appreciate these quiet nighttime neighbors:

🔹 Natural Pest Control:
Opossums consume a wide variety of pests, including ticks, cockroaches, slugs, snails, and even venomous snakes. A single opossum can eat thousands of ticks in a season, reducing the spread of Lyme disease.

🔹 Low Rabies Risk:
Due to their lower-than-average body temperature, opossums are highly resistant to rabies, making them one of the safest mammals to coexist with in your backyard.

🔹 Playing Dead:
When threatened, opossums may involuntarily enter a catatonic state — often called “playing possum.” This is a defense mechanism and can last from minutes to over an hour.

🔹 Marsupial Moms:
As North America’s only native marsupial, opossum mothers carry their young in a pouch. Once big enough, the babies ride on her back as she forages.

🔹 Non-Aggressive & Solitary:
Opossums are not aggressive and prefer to avoid confrontation. They rarely stay in one place long, simply passing through in search of food and shelter.

If you see an opossum in your yard or neighborhood, give it space and allow it to move on peacefully. They pose no threat and provide enormous ecological benefits.

📞 Need help with injured or orphaned wildlife?
Text us at 678-827-5496 or visit GeorgiaWildlifeNetwork.com.
For after-hours assistance, use the Animal Help Now app.

07/30/2025

🦆🚫 Please Don’t Dump Domestic Ducks 🛑🌿
It may seem kind, but releasing ducks into the wild is a death sentence — not a second chance.

Domestic ducks and ducklings are not equipped to survive in the wild. Unlike wild ducks, they:
❌ Can’t fly away from predators
❌ Don’t know how to forage for food
❌ Often imprint on humans and get left behind
❌ Are bright-colored and easily spotted by predators
❌ Overcrowd natural water sources and compete with native species

Many of these dumped ducks are left in public parks, retention ponds, or neighborhood lakes — and we’re seeing more and more heartbreaking calls every week.

🐾 If you can no longer care for your duck(s):
✅ Reach out to a local rescue or farm animal sanctuary
✅ Post in responsible pet rehoming groups
✅ Text us at 678-827-5496 for resources — we may be able to help or guide you to someone who can

Remember: domestic ducks rely on people for survival. If you wouldn’t dump a puppy in the woods, don’t dump a duck at the pond.

💚 Help us protect Georgia’s native wildlife and prevent the suffering of abandoned pets.

07/23/2025

🚗🦝 WANTED: Wildlife Uber Drivers (minus the tips, pay, or any shred of normalcy) 🦌🚙

Have you ever thought to yourself,

“Wow, I’d love to spend my free time chasing down baby possums in a Wendy’s parking lot, driving an injured hawk across the state with a screaming armadillo in the backseat, all while running on coffee and sheer chaos?”

GREAT. You’re exactly who we need. 💚

Georgia Wildlife Network is in desperate need of transport volunteers — the brave, selfless, slightly unhinged folks who help get injured or orphaned animals from Point A to a vet or licensed rehabber. 🏥🦉

✨ The position is:
• Tireless
• Thankless
• Completely unfunded
• And weirdly rewarding.

You might not get paid, but you’ll earn:
• Street cred in the squirrel community
• Eternal admiration from fawns and fledglings everywhere
• And a lifetime supply of “What’s in your car this time?” texts from friends and family

🎯 Ready to join the chaos? Sign up here:
👉 https://www.georgiawildlifenetwork.com/volunteer

We can’t do it without you… seriously. We’ve tried. And now there’s a goose in someone’s backseat.

07/21/2025

If you have any soft sided dog crates in size Medium, Large, or XL that you would be willing to donate, please let us know! Metal crates don't work well for raptor or waterbird transports, as wings can get stuck, causing injury. We can use soft sided crates to transport most species. We have quite a few new transporters who could use one and they are not cheap to purchase new. Please text us if you'd like to donate one that's currently collecting dust in your garage. THANK YOU!! 💕

Text 678-827-5496

07/20/2025

People think they're helping. But bears that become reliant on human food sources often end up being euthanized. Bears can quickly lose their fear of humans and associate them with a resource for food. When this happens, it can lead to conflicts that put them and the humans in danger. Bears can remember a food source for YEARS and they can smell food from more than a mile away. Bears will break into cars and homes once they have identified those locations as a place for a quick snack. Their intention isn't to hurt anyone; it's to EAT.

If you see a bear, admire from a distance. There's no need to report to DNR unless it is aggressive, sick, or approaching people. Bears cannot be relocated and often, they are simply passing through the area. Bring in all cat food, bird feeders, etc and DO NOT try to interact with them in any way. Your intervention could be the cause of their untimely death. Please. Respect the bears. 🐻💕


*Image by Bearwise

07/18/2025

Mommy kitty is a beloved community cat that showed up with some concerning behaviors. She would stand for awhile and then lose control over her back legs and collapse. The caretaker was considering euthanasia as she didn’t have funds to find out what was wrong. Seeing a beloved cat that has a committed feeder face death because lack of funds broke our heart so we stepped up and she went to Baranik animal care to be observed and have X-rays done under sedation as well as catch up on her vetting if all seemed well.

Luckily this beautiful lady was fine. She now is combo tested and has 3 year vaccinations to keep her healthy. The bill ended up around $350 and we would be grateful for any donations to help cover this.

Video of mama in comments so you can see her symptoms. The vet guesses a car ran into her but not over her and she was bruised.

Your support enables us to say yes when emergencies arise. Thank you! ❤️🐱❤️

07/02/2025

Download our popular free wildlife app today. It's used across the country more than once every three minutes for a wildlife emergency.

06/30/2025

A groundbreaking study has quantified the suffering of fish during slaughter, revealing that methods like asphyxiation in open air can cause up to 22 minutes of intense pain for each fish. Using the Welfare Footprint Framework, researchers found that a trillion fish killed yearly for food may endure prolonged distress—sometimes over an hour per kilogram of meat produced.

Electrical stunning offers a more humane alternative, potentially sparing 20+ hours of suffering per dollar invested, but current methods are inconsistent. As awareness of animal welfare rises, these findings could reshape global seafood industry practices.

Source: Science Alert

06/30/2025

A Reminder Florida - baby Squirrels running after you and clinging to the leg of your pants are not rabid ! They are doing this out of sheer desperation because they have lost their mom and have been lacking care for days. Young Squirrels are an exception in the animal kingdom - when they have lost contact with their mom and suffer hunger and thirst, they gather all their courage and purposefully seek help from humans. Most of these animals are also injured by a fall from a tree. Help them. Please never hurt them. 🌰🐿🥜❤️
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