2025

The Owl Foundation is a registered charity located in southern Ontario, specializing in helping injured or orphaned owls and other raptors). We strive to return them to the wild.

We currently have over 80 owls on site, including resident, orphaned young, and rehabilitation cases in different stages of healing.

In 2024 we admitted 205 birds of prey. One of our largest expenses is owl food. We have two suppliers that we utilize to keep our facility well stocked with frozen mice.

In addition to purchasing frozen mice, we breed mice. We cannot possibly breed enough to meet our daily needs, but it does help offset some of the costs. Volunteers maintain our breeding colony with routine cleaning, watering and feeding.

Having the cost of mice covered for 3 months would free up those resources for our many other operating expenses. i.e. veterinary care, medications, enclosure maintenance/rebuild. We are in the early stages of rebuilding our Snowy Owl Complex, a multi-year project. October-December 2024 we used 6,043 mice and 1,222 rats. (We also used 272 quail.)