Reach Out Rescue, NFP Alumni

Humans really need to DO BETTER.

Imagine that you were working hard but struggling to feed your children. Imagine that you and your children received an invitation for an incredible banquet… for free. Imagine you accepted the invitation, showed up for the meal… and were shot and killed right in front of your children.

That’s what happened to the mother of Rose (left) and her brother Briar (right). It’s also what happened to the mother of Marie and Archimedes, two other kits in our care. Every single year, we take in orphans whose mothers and fathers accepted invitations for free meals in the form of free-roaming chickens.

If you choose to keep small livestock, it is your responsibility to protect them by keeping them in secure runs and coops. Wild animals have no way to know that the easy prey you’re leaving out isn’t meant for them! Killing wild animals for accepting the free, easy meal is cruel and also does nothing to protect livestock. As long as the chickens are running loose unsupervised, they’ll get killed by cats, dogs, raccoons, hawks, skunks, and traffic, so the death of a mother fox didn’t help anyone.

When Rose and Briar got desperately hungry and went to look for their mother, they wandered into the road, where their only surviving sibling was hit by a car. Kind people who lived nearby saw them with their dead sibling and got them help. They are malnourished and anemic, especially Rose, but we expect them to be okay.

These two babies will be quarantined for a few weeks, vaccinated, and treated for parasites, and will then join their future foster siblings Marie, Archimedes, and Naomi before ultimately going home to the wild.

Thank you for making it all possible! Please see the Linktree in our bio for ways to support these beautiful animals. We are currently most in need of RodentPro donations!

[Description: two small red foxes inside a carrier with a brown and white blanket. They are pale orange in color and the photo is taken in dim lighting.]