![]() ![]() King says she owes the ranch’s above-average save rate to Google and help from veterinarians like Claremore’s Lesleigh Cash Warren, as well as some of her own twelve years’ experience as a veterinary technician. Since its founding, Wild Heart Ranch has rehabilitated 57,000 animals. “The first seven months, I was brought 860 wild animals.” “I had no idea what I was doing, but I had to figure it out,” King says. When a friend brought her a pair of orphaned baby raccoons, she decided to get her wildlife rehabilitator license. ![]() She brought so many to her land that she had to move permanently onto a larger property to care for them and eventually had to purchase the farm across the street to accommodate all her rescues. ![]() King, then working for an insurance company, started rescuing horses, cats, and dogs. Wild Heart Ranch began on a lark in 1996. We fall in love with all the broken ones.” With this motley crew of unlikely mascots, it’s easy to see what King means when she says, “We take the odd kids, the hopeless. Pat’s in good company with Wild Heart’s other residents: several talking birds, a free-roaming crow, the office bulldog, a pig, a donkey, and Keebler the lemur, a circus veteran who spends much of his time snuggling with teddy bears. ![]() “We weren’t sure at first, but we know now that she is a Cornish hen.” “She was found running around a shopping center with no feathers,” says Annette King, Wild Heart Ranch founder. Curious and docile, she has probably seen better days, but it’s hard to say, because nobody even knew exactly what Pat was when she was rescued in April. Pat looks something like a half-shaven turkey or a miniature ostrich. Those who visit Wild Heart Ranch, a wildlife rehabilitation facility outside Claremore, likely will meet Pat. ![]()
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