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Licensed wildlife rehabilitation and education facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
06/14/2026
Piper’s as good as new, but with a cool battle scar, and has made it back home! This eastern box turtle got chewed by a dog, leaving big chunks of her shell missing. After a long period of treatment, her exposed soft tissues have calcified, leaving her just as tough as before. Although turtles can recover from shell fractures in the wild, these injuries carry a very high risk of infection, so they should always be brought to rehabilitation. Thank you for making Piper’s recovery possible!
[Description: an eastern box turtle in grass, fully withdrawn into her shell.]
Another successful release made possible by our supporters. Congrats to the graduates and the people who made their care possible! 🎉 🧑🎓
Whenever we share opossum release videos, we get a lot of good questions about why these nocturnal animals are being released in the daytime. It’s correct that opossums should usually be released at dusk! We do release some opossums at night but those never end up online because, well, it’s night.
However, some of our preferred release sites for opossums are in protected, very rural lands with dirt roads that close at night. Since cars are a leading cause of death for opossums, especially in urban areas, we choose these sites for the safety of the newly released critters. A daytime release is a temporary stress in exchange for assurance that they will never get hit by cars. They generally find a place nearby to hide until nightfall.
Thank you to everyone who makes our work possible!
[Description: three opossum joeys, each about a pound and a half in size, walking into a quiet forest. Two walk directly away from the camera, while one goes toward the left.]
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