Welcome to this month’s newsletter! So far it has been a slow month in terms of incoming patients, which is a good thing when it comes to an animal rescue clinic!

Welcome to this month’s newsletter! The staff and volunteers at Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary have been busy working on renovating areas of the sanctuary and carrying out urgent maintenance and improvements to our rescue center. We are moving the three white-faced monkeys to a new, larger and better enclosure in the sanctuary and have been focusing on the move.

Mischa, the Tamandua that was brought to us after her mother was fatally attacked by a dog has been moved to one of our pre-release enclosures. We received Mischa when she was just a couple of weeks old, and although initially we were unsure if she was releasable due to a head injury, she has now overcome this issue and is behaving like a wild anteater should. We move our animals to pre-release enclosures after our vet staff and biologist have reviewed their behavior and feel that they are one step closer to being released. Once in pre-release, the animals hardly have any contact with humans.

We do not always bring every animal we rescue to the center, sometimes we are just called to help wildlife that is caught or stuck somewhere, as was the case with this adult, woolly opossum. This marsupial was trapped between someone’s door, so the sanctuary was called to safely remove it and release it back into its home.