More Animals
Snickers
Snickers the porcupine is a favorite at AWCC! He is a gregarious little fellow, having been raised in a home, and relocated to the AWCC after this. Snickers is excellent for school presentations, where he will come out of his cage for the afternoon to entertain and teach the kids personally. Snickers became a star last year, when a Youtube video of him went worldwide and received over 1,800,000 views! See that video here, and another of our favorites here. Click here to adopt Snickers!
Caribou
The caribou at AWCC were rescued from Alaskan islands, which were becoming overpopulated and could not sustain healthy animals. To prevent starvation, some caribou were removed and brought to AWCC.
Sitka Black-tailed Deer
The deer are the friendliest animals at AWCC and were all orphaned as young fawns. Jewelie is an orphaned Sitka black-tailed deer that arrived in 2004, and is the star of this years Animal Planet “Growing up Baby”. She was found wandering on a beach in Prince William Sound after her mother had been killed by a brown bear. Some boaters spotted her and saw the body of her mother nearby in a bear's food cache. They quickly carried her to safety and brought her to the wildlife center. Jewelie weighed just 5 pounds when she arrived at AWCC.
Lynx
During the summer of 2004, a working firefighter spotted month-old kittens in a recently burned area in Interior Alaska. Three kittens were found alone and suffered from burns on their paws, legs, faces and ears. The whereabouts of the mother was unknown. Had she died in the fire? Had she left some kittens behind, but carried as many as she could as she fled to safety? In need of treatment and knowing the kittens could not survive on their own, the firefighter put them into his backpack and carried them back to camp where he could make arrangements for their transport. Unfortunately, one male kitten died soon after the rescue, but the two females were flown to the Anchorage airport and transported to AWCC for treatment and care on July 20th. In the wild, lynx stay with their mothers for almost a year in order to learn hunting and survival skills. Since these lynx were orphaned at such a young age, a permanent home will be provided for them at AWCC. Photo courtesy of Gary Lackie.