Wildlife Rehabilitators Making a Difference Cynthiana, KY


Grit & Grace Wildlife Rehabilitation was born from my heart and from my love of all animals, both domestic and wild. I have been rescuing and rehabbing animals for much of my life (40+ years). It wasn’t until 2017, and with the rescue of an orphaned fawn, that I realized the great need for wildlife rehabilitation. I acquired the education and the licensing that same year, and Grit & Grace Wildlife Rehabilitation was born. In 2019, we were blessed to become a 501c3 non-profit.
We rescue, rehabilitate, and release back into the wild, Kentucky’s native wildlife mammals. We receive wild mammals of all ages and species. These animals come to us as orphaned, abandoned, injured, ill, and displaced. They range in age from a few hours old to adults. However, our biggest majority of intakes come to us as newborns or just a couple days/weeks old. I would estimate that around 90% of our intakes are victims of human intervention… meaning they were the victims of human afflicted injuries or accidents (whether accidental or intentional) leaving them orphaned, injured, sick, or abandoned. We’re just trying to give them back what humans have taken away from them.
We receive absolutely NO government funding or help of any kind. We are 100% volunteer based and operated, and run solely on donations or from our own pockets. Kentucky, as with all the other states, offer no help or funding in any way, to wildlife rehabilitators.
Your support and contributions will enable us to help these animals. Your generous donation will fund our mission. We can't do this important work without YOU! Please help...

Thanks to Mr. Keith Sandy, The Taylor Giving Fund, and to everyone who donated towards our "clinic building fundraiser" we were able to purchase a much larger building in 2022 in which to rehab wildlife!! We call it our clinic building and it is where the majority of the rehab work is done.
This new building was a HUGE blessing, because as you all know, we desperately needed more space and room to care for all of the animals that we take in each year. We were working from a very small shed in my driveway before this expansion. This new clinic building has given us the space we needed to house all of our incubators and vital rehab equipment.
It seems as if we always have a need or a project to work on. Honestly, our "to-do" list is never-ending. We are going to begin working (in 2026) on adding a separate entrance/driveway to our wildlife center (separate from our personal driveway) which will be another added blessing. We are also going to be starting a few other much needed projects like building new enclosures and repairing old ones. And we will be preparing our new release property for this year's releases. 2026 will be another busy year!
If you've ever wanted to help (or know someone who might) but didn't know how to help, this would be the perfect time! By donating to any of our projects, your support not only helps us save hundreds of wildlife animals, but it will also help us to expand and continue to do the work we do!
The photo I've added is a photo of the building before we purchased it and a photo of the site that we put it on. It's next to our fawn barn.


This is the new building that we were able to purchase and finish out the insides.... all thanks to our wonderful donors!!
Special Thanks to Keith Sandy and Melinda Fields (The Taylor Giving Fund) for helping make this a reality. Much love!

The porch might be my favorite part! Thanks to Michael and Ann for building it for us!

This is our new clinic room inside the new building. This is where the animals will come for triage when they arrive into care.

Inside the clinic room. This clinic room alone is as big as the whole building that we were working out of before purchasing this new building. Praise Jesus!

This is our new intake room. We never had an intake room until now. Blessed beyond measure!

This is our "very old" fence sign that I made back when GGWR was still just a dream in my heart. We have since replaced it with a new sign, but I'll always love this one.
Photo credit: Our sweet neighbor Taylor took this beautiful photo.
Check out this great video of our 2022 season...
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