This is what specialized wildlife medicine looks like.
Meet Toothy, a squirrel admitted to Acorn Acres Wildlife Rehabilitation with severely overgrown teeth.
A squirrel’s incisors grow continuously throughout its life. Normally, proper alignment and natural chewing keep them worn to a healthy length. When that process fails, the teeth can become dangerously overgrown, interfere with eating, injure the mouth, and create a life-threatening medical emergency.
Cases like Toothy’s require far more than kindness. They require trained hands, specialized knowledge, medical supplies, diagnostic equipment, appropriate facilities, and the resources to provide individualized care.
Wildlife rehabilitation is often viewed as a niche animal-welfare service. In reality, it is part of a community’s infrastructure supporting animal welfare, environmental stewardship, public education, emergency response, and the people who need somewhere qualified to turn when wildlife is in distress.
In 2025, Acorn Acres admitted more than 630 wild patients and achieved an 84.21% rehabilitation success rate.
We have already admitted 600 patients in 2026 and the year is not over.These numbers represent more than growth. They demonstrate both the increasing demand for qualified wildlife care and our ability to give injured and orphaned animals a meaningful second chance.
We provide professional care for Pennsylvania’s prey animals, ranging from mice to beavers, with specialized expertise in squirrels, cottontail rabbits, groundhogs, and Virginia opossums.
We do all of this as a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit, without payroll or tax funding.
Local businesses can help sustain this essential community resource through corporate sponsorships, matching-gift programs, employee volunteer projects, donated professional services, and in-kind support.
When your company considers community investment, does wildlife and environmental stewardship have a place in that conversation?
We believe it should.
