Community Rallies To Support Newhouse Wildlife Rescue

CHELMSFORD, MA — A Chelmsford non-profit animal rescue that cares for tiny baby animals for free at its facility asked the community for help replacing three of its five incubators and may get to replace all five, thanks to quick response from community members.

Newhouse Wildlife Rescue is a wildlife rehab facility in Chelmsford run by volunteers dedicated to educating the public on how to coexist with the wild animals in the area. They take in and help rehabilitate injured, orphaned or otherwise compromised wildlife for free, according to the rescue's website.

The owner said the cheap incubators the nonprofit has been using are broken or damaged because of overuse, and their Christmas wish is to buy five new machines that can be cleaned easier, give exact control over humidity, and has settings that would help the animals they care for.

So Newhouse Wildife rescue took to GoFundMe to raise money Monday in the hopes that they could at least buy three of them. The machines run around $1,000 each and the owner asked for $3,000.

" We want them to have the best possible chance at survival with top notch care. Incubators can greatly increase the chances of an animal’s survival by giving us complete control of their environment," Jane Newhouse, who runs the nonprofit wrote.

The campaign has only been up for one day, and more than 75 people have donated $3,175.

The rescue got its wildlife rehabilitation permit in Massachusetts in 2017. Before she came to Massachusetts, Newhouse had been rehabilitating wildlife in Georgia for six years when she was a veterinary technician, she told Patch.

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