How You Can Contribute
See below for ways to help. From monetary donations, gift certificates, wish lists gifts, and meat donations, we appreciate them all!
Other Ways To Contribute!
We always need our most important nutritional food for the foxes and coyotes: frozen whole prey! This replicates what they’d be eating in the wild and is not just important nutritionally but also as part of their rehabilitation in teaching them how to forage, find, secure, and cache. During January each year I like to start stocking up for Spring baby season. This is our number 1 need always! You can purchase GIFT CERTIFICATES for The Canid Project at www.rodentpro.com! Just follow that link and it will take you directly to the gift certificate page!
Our Chewy Wish List is full of other animal supplies we need for our state-permitted Fox Rehabilitation program.We’ve also added an option for a gift certificate! Many items on the list are every day things for the foxes and coyotes in our care that we will need like food, gloves, medical items, fleece blankets etc. We appreciate every item that is purchased and sent our way. Please write a note when purchasing so we will know who to thank!
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A Note To Landowners and Hunters:
Are you a rural land owner in Louisiana? Open to speaking with us about using your land as a release site for our rehabilitated orphaned red and gray fox kits once they are ready for release? If so, even if just to get more information, please click that 'Contact Us' button up top and contact us today!
Are you a hunter in the process of cleaning out your freezers or just want to contribute some of your kills to the foxes? If so, please click that 'Contact Us' button to the left and contact us today!
What does each fox or coyote rescue cost The Canid Project a month for basic care?
When healthy orphaned foxes come in we first take them to the vet for a full checkup. This runs us about $100 per fox, on average. Below are the very basic recurring costs we see each month for foxes in our care, this is not counting cleaning products, toys, enrichment, crickets, pine shavings, enclosure maintenance.
Food for one orphaned fox kit, which consists of frozen whole prey chicks and mice, chunked rabbit and turkey, chicken breasts and gizzards, various fruits and veggies, eggs, and high quality high protein dog food, costs an average of $7 to $12 a day. We often have them for 3 to 5 months.
For adult foxes and coyotes food costs are a bit more. Whole raw prey is expensive and the prices have doubled over the past few years since 2020.
Vaccinations we administer ourselves run about $50 per fox. Plus, rabies vaccinations by a vet cost a bit more (average $40, but if the animals have to be sedated it is quite a bit more.
Monthly Heartworm and Flea prevention is $9 a fox per month.
A dose of Bravecto, which lasts 12 weeks, given right before release is about $80.
Other Operating Costs of the Rescue and Outreach
We also take calls for injured foxes and coyotes year round. These are animals usually suffering from car strikes, diseases, poisons etc. and usually require vet care.
Our enclosures all need yearly maintenance! Living in the humid south makes this super important, as enclosures can not be compromised and must be reinforced each year.
We offer several free of charge outreach programs and resources which are rarely seen on our social media such as, local presentations, “nuisance” wildlife consultations by phone and in person, to name a couple.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!