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Caring for Critters
Animal Adoption Program
The Wildlife Center of Virginia cares for thousands of animals each year, including about two dozen permanent animal residents whose injuries or behavioral modifications mean they cannot be returned to the wild.
These animals – including hawks, owls, opossums, and snakes – are important ambassadors for the Center. Many appear with our outreach staff at school assemblies, in classrooms, and at other events across Virginia. Other animals greet visitors to the Center’s hospital clinic in Waynesboro.
Through Caring for Critters, generous supporters of the Wildlife Center “adopt” one of these education animals. A six-month Caring for Critters sponsorship is $25. A full-year sponsorship is $50.
Your Caring for Critters donation helps provide food, shelter and medical care for the sponsored animal … supports the Center’s educational outreach programs … and helps provide state-of-the-art emergency care to thousands of animals admitted to the Wildlife Center each year.
Caring for Critters also makes a unique and memorable gift … for a child … student … friends and family. Sponsorships can also be made to an entire class at your local school.
As a Caring for Critters sponsor, you [or your gift recipient] will receive a special Caring for Critters sponsorship packet, including:
- The sponsored animal’s biography
- A photo of the animal
- Detailed information about the characteristic of the animal’s species, and
- A personalized certificate of sponsorship
Please help support the Wildlife Center by adopting one … or more … of these wonderful Center animals:
Eagles, Falcons, & Hawks
Owls
Other Birds
Opossums
Snakes & Tortoises
Meet all of our Education Animals
OR … Sponsor a Special Animal in Need
While animals being treated at the Wildlife Center stay, on average, about 10 – 12 days, some require extended care. Many of the traumatic injuries that wild animals have — broken bones, eye injuries, shell fractures — require several months of treatment.
If you sponsor a “Special Animal in Need”, we’ll select one of our patients that we expect will need extended care at the Center. You [or your gift recipient] will receive components of a regular Caring for Critters sponsorship package … plus email updates on your patient’s status.
Adopt a “Special Animal in Need” through the Wildlife Center’s Caring for Critters program for $25.
A Caring for Critters sponsorship is available via Paypal. Please use the “Special Instructions” field on the final screen to let us know the animals you’ll be sponsoring.
Or contact the Center at (540) 942-9453 or email us at wildlife@wildlifecenter.org.
News stories about the Center’s Caring for Critters program:
People Can Sponsor Center’s Animals, The Free Lance-Star
Injured Animals Help Teach, The Free Lance-Star
Donor Privacy Policy
The Wildlife Center of Virginia never sells, rents, trades, or otherwise shares our supporters’ names, mailing addresses, email addresses, or other personal information with any other organization. The Wildlife Center never sends out mailings on behalf of other organizations.
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