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Today is May 18, 2025 and Operation Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation will be closed for at least two weeks.
Fran has a nasty cold that is not going away unless she takes care of herself. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can find other rehabilitors by visiting the Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitators website at: http://owra.org/
A Day In The Life of Fran Kitchen
In 2019 Fran took in OVER 900 animals. She currently takes care of three counties, Portage, Wayne and her own county, Summit. You may have seen the notice we posted last week that there was a rumor going around that Fran was dead, had cancer and not taking in wildlife anymore. As we mentioned, THIS…
Animals | Fran Kitchen | Mammals | Melissa Hornak | Operation Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation | WildlifeBug Control
I received three bottles of Flys-Off and a bag of cracked corn over the weekend. Thank you Melissa Hornak–this is a BIG HELP! Without Flys-Off, it would be very easy to have a parasite problem. Flys-Off allows me to safely get parasites off of the mammals. Without it, the fleas would get out of control. …
Risky Business
It was a dreary chilly December Sunday afternoon when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a man that had a problem. He and his wife had gone outside, heard a noise in the tree and discovered a large Red Tail Hawk hanging from a crack in the tree. Currently, I’ve…
Feeding time for 5 week and 4.5 week old groundhogs!
“Youngest was found on a path. A dog killed the mother of the other one.” – Fran
Birds | Chipmunk | Educational Animals | Fran Kitchen | Goose | Opossum | WoodpeckerA Day In A Life
This week’s post is not so much a TBT but more of a look into what goes on here. As I mentioned last week, the facility is full of baby animals as we enter the fall birthing season. Right now I have well over 30 squirrels and chipmunks, a dozen opossum, a goose and one…

