Rehabilitation Services:
Hello, my name is Maureen. I am a Connecticut licensed wildlife rehabilitator who has been caring for injured, ill and orphaned bats for more than twenty years with the goal of returning them to the wild. My facility is home-based, and each year I receive many dozens of bats in need of help. Some are injured, some come in underweight and dehydrated, some are found grounded outside. Still others are found in houses in warm weather and cold. All have one thing in common: they need my help. Often it's simply a matter of offering advice to a caller, or overwintering a bat in my "artificial cave." At other times, a bat will come in injured or ill, and in need of medication and/or help from a veterinarian.

In summer I raise orphaned bat pups, which calls for special equipment such as incubators and specific milk formulas for feeding the several different kinds of pups. The three-gram pups need to be fed every two -to-three hours, day and night, for the first week or so, after which the intervals get longer as the pups grow and finally seem to be weaned.

When rehabbed adult and juvenile bats are ready to be released, in order to make sure they are functioning the way a healthy bat should, they must first spend some time in the large outdoor flight cage located in my backyard.

Wildlife rehabbers are volunteers. I receive no state or federal funding to pay for food, medicine, veterinary costs or housing for the bats in my care. Sometimes I receive help from an assistant, but I am the sole caretaker, and I can always use more help. If you are interested in volunteering, please go to my Contact page for more information. Thanks!

If you have found a bat, please call or text 860-685-1606
Never simply leave a bat on my doorstep.

Don't use sticky traps of any kind to control rodents or flies. The traps snare many kinds of animals, including birds and bats. There are humane alternatives for controlling rodents.