Kamp Kenan Tour at Urban Rescue Ranch!

oh and there's another one that's tier up  that's way too high to be we are not in Florida anymore I've just taken two days and  I finally arrived at my first destination in Texas we're in Waco howy good good to see you  we are we are here at the urban Rescue Ranch man this is so sick welcome what do you want to  see first oh B just I'm just excited to be here and not be in my car and and to be honest I'm  just excited to be out away from the camp for a little bit yeah you know like just to see 

how other folks are doing good things with animals well we'll ped we'll start you off  with what you're used to okay uh we got two sadas here there was little surrendered to me oh  that's you know I love it I love watching these guys grad this looks like a little gal huh yeah  this is a little girl oh man what's her name do you have a name for her uh I call her Sensei Leo  I don't have any like actual the she I haven't like put a lot of thought into a name no worries  for the first time in a wh

ile we finally have warm enough weather to let these guys out all day all  night when does weather really turn here in Texas Central Texas right yeah we get starting late  like mid to late February we get amazing weather like this and then we have a month and a half of  that and then it's just hell just gets hot for like three four months and then after that though  it's nice for another month for the fall um so I'm really trying to take advantage of this weather  as much as I can this is also t

he busy season for us yeah so are you you open for tours is that  what you do so legally I can't let people come in here and see the wildlife uh because you're  not supposed to do that as a wildlife rehabber uh you're a volunteer so I can show you around  and we're going to help us with some of the wild but then also what I need to do for uh for the  actual for all the other animals you need USDA permits okay not for reptiles though apparently  which I just found out oh that's interesting yeah a

lso I I don't want people coming I hear  you okay interesting man but you are that's how you got started huh you Bas oh look out are  you kidding this was a little dwarf Cayman that was surrendered to us no way and this he needs  a little bit more water in here but he a cute little guy you know he's looking good I mean um  is he handleable uh you can uh I'm sure you could probably handle him a little bit better than I can  he's a bit nippy obviously but he's like he's not very reactionary if I d

o this he's not going to  come up and bite at it right and then also he he eats the the rats that come into the barn it's  fantastic so like there will be rats coming in here running up on here and then I know because  there will be like months where I like haven't fed him and and he's fat and he gets fatter and  I'm like he is fatter than he was yesterday and then I see rat tracks oh and I know that rats  will get in here and then they'll get stuck in here and then he'll just come up and eat th

em oh  that's amazing or sometimes if they're looking for a way out rats can swim they'll get in the  water but this is really cool I wonder if it's a man I'll tell you what I have Lucifer at home I'm  looking for a female you raise him up if he gets too big for you there we go we can retire him in  Florida this this is uh Patrick he is a tomorrow is the big day he finally gets his cast off a  he was a uh Orphan Black buck that was born on a livestock trailer during transport people love to  hun

t these things here in Texas yeah that's right um and there's nothing wrong with hunting animals  you know what I mean I don't I'm not like going to bash on the Exotic hunts but whenever people  are hunting uh something that was farmed and then released on 10 acres it's it's a little not much  of a challenge now did what so it was born with and got a broken leg in transport uh no no no so  he was born in the in the uh Transport Trailer and then his mom ran off without him whenever they  let him

out uh and then he was being really stupid here and he uh whenever uh whenever we were over  there just running around he like stepped on a on one of the fence panels and it just like kind of  twisted his ankle so now we had a uh we had the Vets come out immediately we got him a cast got  now get basically just contained because you don't want that animal walk around a lot while it's got  a cast on just just like the like basically these are what we're going to be using for the white  tail fonts

cuz we're also wildlife rehab and we need to have a certain space for white tails that  keeps them separate from everything else oh Amber Alert uhoh what's going on here animal and trouble  do you put on like tights in a cape and then go out and rescue them is that how you do it Ben sad  I wish I could do something about dude Ben's built like Superman if you guys haven't noticed the  dude's definitely not been missing the weights oh this is the reptile room check it out we just  set this up oh

feels nice and warm too oh and we might have a fun a fun task for you perfect put  me to work dude this guy we need to release him because this is a uh someone brought this into  me this morning this is a threo to tortoise right it's a three toad box turtle and it's a wild CAU  one and you can always tell when they're wild CAU CU here's an animal that's been gwed on probably  by a raccoon and that's why someone brought him in but at the end of the day he's fine he doesn't  need to be totally reh

abed it all so that's amazing so it's not been someone's pet these guys  this is amazing I got to just take a moment for my reptile friends out there because when I lived  in Las Vegas I actually had a three-toed box turtle um and this is a subspecies of our Eastern  variants um you know because you got the Eastern the Gulf Coast the Florida box turtle and the  three- toad box turtle and then here in Texas you're also going to have the Western box turtle  and the ornate box turtle and we've gott

en those too yeah very cool I'll say the majority of the  ones that we get here are either chewed up by a coyote or a dog and uh and they either need  to be here uh and they're going to die or they don't need to be here at all and someone just  brought them to me this is one of the ones that like doesn't need to be here at all it's funny  people mean well but the best thing to do is help it across the road in the direction it was going  do you know where about this animal found at a Goodwill par

king lot oh boy so that's the tricky  thing in in a really Metro like I don't know how he got there so now I'm I'm having to decide okay  where do we release him yeah because we want to get him back to his original area but not if it's  a good the best no definitely not the best place you know would be like some kind of meadowy area  where there might be some trees near Creek so and then here's another thing that is probably not  great uh I have a uh morlet crocodile in here cool and I left this

door open oh so there's  a Crocodile somewhere there's a crocodile in this all right I love it Ben uh he's he's probably  about like 2 3 ft he's probably he's not very big but he's going to be probably in there uh he has  gotten in there before that's why I actually cut a hole into this so you can get him out the other  big thing is uh we have this reticulated python that have surrender to us the morlet crocodile  was emaciated and had really bad Metabolic Bone Disease okay um there's a reticul

ated python that  we have in here thank you to all our loyal patreon members out there who have helped to create an  amazing reptile Community online with us this week's shout out goes to our good friend Adam  Martinez in a really nasty enclosure I fed him for the first time and now he's sleeping a he he  has this little hide in here that is so cool and then I wanted to get your opinion on how this is  set up and and then get any critiques from you listen cuz I'm relatively new to reptiles and 

then we also have all these that I haven't put lighting or any heat or anything we don't have any  animals in here but this great I me listen this is fantastic bro um I love what you're doing here  my only concern ju just concerned this particle board because of the humidity it's going to fall  apart it's going to fall apart I would look out for that so should we seal it with something um  I don't know about sealing it um because I'm not sure what those chemicals would do but um I would  just be

worried about when you're cleaning urine things like that could swell it so I would just  thankfully that's only on the outside oh it's on the sealed anything that's on the inside but  you're right though like this is a thing like it's on the frame on the outside of the right oh okay  I didn't realize that I'm sorry I thought still no it is so humid in here I think you're right  eventually if we don't paint over this yeah just give it a little protection but I mean this is  cool dude can I open

this and maybe get a little sneak I'm going to put the turtle I want to have  a look at this retick guys so this is really cool man he's doing such a cool thing down here in Waco  Texas there's the retick right there oh look he's going to come out no I don't think so hey buddy  hey buddy how you doing it's dark in there don't bite my camera you can barely see him and I don't  want to stick my head right in there but that's really cool so this is awesome but yeah as far as  the retick for the si

ze of this animal um this is going to give him a lot of opportunity to grow  and be healthy um eventually he'll probably need a bigger setup whenever he gets huge huge uh for  sure um but for now this is good and we just got him surrendered last week oh that's crazy so you  already got something built up for him so that's amazing man we had the framing oh yeah and just  was in here as well oh is he in there yeah can I can I take a look at him yeah yeah you want me to  pull him out for you if you

don't mind I'd love to see him this is so cool man wow I appreciate it  Ben I know how busy you are yeah it's well wait till you to see all the wildlife that we just got  today that's another big thing the thing that I love about reptiles though is how dang easy it is  to take care of them these they don't eat as much as a mammel that's for sure no yeah or often it's  not well yeah I say it's easy to take care of them but I wouldn't say it's super hard either o easy  okay Gustavo when we found

him he was probably he was a quarter he was probably a third this size  wow but um yeah he was emaciated he was probably a one on the body scale for a crocodile way so uh we  started putting him on pinkies that I would inject with like egg whites that's what an Australian  wildlife rehab told me to do and uh you can see he was put he was at a drive-through Safari uh and  they put him with a u Nile crocodile that bit the tip of his tail off and it would steal all of his  food that's it they get b

ullied man yeah happens with a lot of different reptile species yep and  the Nile got two times his size he had probably half of his teeth when we first got him wow and  then now if you want to hold yeah that's awesome hold on let me just go ahead look at this guy I'm  surprised you don't have any more lets you know I I can keep certain species in Florida there's so  many restrictions so I'm on 2 and 1/2 AC I'm only allowed to keep what's called Class 2 Wildlife so  alligators Cayman except the

black cayman Chinese alligators uh the only crocodile I can keep is  a dwarf crocodile yeah um so I can keep them but only up to 4T so I don't want you know I get so uh  attached to certain animals that I don't want to keep them exactly you know then have to surrender  them like he's a crocodile so he's never going to be a puppy you know like some people have  Gators like yeah but this guy is a little fell and I don't try to stress him out or take him too  much you know cuz I don't want that lac

tic acid to build up or just it's just much better man keep  them calm but I do awesome I like to keep them in here I'm going to start putting fish in here  pretty soon and then I need to do a water change well what is that oil from though what is that  film on top the film on top I don't know that's just a little funky again it's proba it could  potentially be from your branches and stuff like that thinking it's nothing honestly it's nothing  that I would worry about okay um I mean you the wate

r looks really clean dude yeah that's that's  I was texting you a while ago whenever we got the frame set up for this uh and this is where we had  the tortoises just for a little bit it doesn't look great we need to clean all this stuff so  no D what you doing myess no's my folks are true hardcore reptile people oh good good look  at him sitting here what's and we could feed him he's waiting for a little food oh yeah there  you go there you go now going to get nice and big there you go yeah and

he can handle one that size  absolutely yeah well there he goes that's so cool man and how old have you been uh I'm 27 now you're  killing it dude you're doing such great stuff I appreciate that yeah my 27's a weird year though  it's like oh I'm no longer in my mid 20s no dude you're getting old we've passed over yeah wait  until you get into your late 40s uhoh it's insane it's all just a number dude no yeah and I actually  am a uh I've been calling myself Uncle Ben for a while now I am finally

an uncle oh congratulations  man thank you that's awesome god it feels like home the humidity feels good what you got in there  just a waterl up they're all empty those are for other turtles that we end up rehabbing but like I  was saying the majority of the turtles we get are like little readier sliders that kind of thing  right they're either hit by cars and there is literally nothing I can do no I know that's  tough or or they like are just fine to wear they honestly probably would have been

fine in a  while gotcha but these guys have a lot of foliage to eat oh my gosh well we saw her eating all the  weeds growing up and they will be just like your goats dude they'll eat everything man yeah is this  your home this is where you actually live so this is where I used to live this is this used to be a  crack house oh interesting not too long ago I need to pick up my clipboard okay somebody somebody  that dropped off a couple squirrels had to fill out the intake form um but this used to

be the  crack house and then this is the only thing that I haven't changed is the roof of this building  here okay uh the porch uh this is a nutrio that we got a while ago that I am uh I move in between  here and out there he's actually pretty friendly but he like runs around with another nutrient in  that enclosure over there and I'll show you that in a bit cool um and they're invasive so we're not  really supposed to release them yeah but somebody brought them to me when he was just a little b

aby  gotta so you have to hold on to them yeah so this is now the main office area I guess yes sir yeah  so we converted the house I used to sleep in and everything else and we had the Cappies in here  when they were babies I got to be honest I didn't know that you were this fullon with proper rescue  it just started um but we that that's been the goal for Forever The Sanctuary has always just  been kind of like let's get kind of the funding let's use the sanctuary and like the animals and  the

YouTube to get funding so we can do wildlife rehab because wildlife rehab is a money hole um  this is a mess right now because the second I clean everything and change everything out they go  nuts they make a mess but as you can see we love squirrels we do love squirrels dude this reminds  me of we have a place I don't know if I brought you there bush wildlife next time you're in  Florida you got to come they started just like you and they just moved into an $18 million facility  18 million is i

nsane it's insane that's and well and we're doing it on a probably like a a crack  house yeah like a 400,000 total of everything we put but you can do a lot with that man and that's  the that's the cool thing we can't now with $18 million facility they're probably taking in like  hundreds of days but that's after almost 30 years of operation you know oh you we get sometimes we  get 10 cotton Tails a day oh my go and these are all guys that are about to be released because you  know you can see t

hat at this size are open their eyes are open they can eat their own hay they're  starting to eat their own solid food we're not putting them on milk at all anymore they're about  ready to go out that's cool but the fact that we have six these are all from the last two days  dude I get it man we we have nine possums that my employee I finally have two part-time employees oh  good for you yeah and then these ones just came in so this when I when I called you when I called  them to open the gates

he said oh I'm giving electrolytes to some squirrels so I literally was  doing this before we did that so my years ago I had a roommate that lived with me at the Old Camp  her name was uh Susie and she worked at the Palm Beach Zoo and she was at our local supermarket  market and found a a newborn squirrel out of the nest the mother kicked it out of the nest eyes  weren't open I got to tell you man that animal she brought home she did what you're doing became  one of my favorite creatures in the

world it's so easy her name was Olivia and she just dude she  would Nestle in my beard um and then we let her go out in my backyard and she would knock on my back  door she would come in I'd feed her she'd hang out with me I could go Olivia she would cruise over  uh and she was there for about a year and then I I like to think Olivia found another squirrel  got married and went off I'm sure she did yeah I hope that's what happen well that's the goal right  that's what we want um it was cool man

yeah I well that's the thing I and I it's hard to get to not  get attached yeah but when we get literally 10 a day you know that's when it's like oh you know  what they don't need to have names there's two of them no you got to get moving what is I'll  show you real quick these are these are three Axel that people surrendered to us we actually got  them from Axel Planet they were also surrendered to them uh that one did not have any toes two  weeks ago and it's toes grew back or hands yep and th

en that's incredible they can regenerate  guys they can actually regenerate you know limbs not just the tail so that's pretty amazing that  amphibian ability for that kind of regeneration so that's pretty cool we've got a half a pound of  blood worms in there as well or not blood worms U black worms oh cool and uh and they just live in  the water and it's just an infinite food source and the only thing we have in here right now is a  eastern screech out that was that has pretty bad head trauma o

h my gosh um and as you can see did  he did he fly into something or yeah he got he he got hit by a car which is honestly kind of amazing  that he's still alive still alive but um and he's eating yeah he is eating uh he's eating whenever I  feed him and he does eat whenever whenever he's on his own it's a little bit harder to get him to eat  when he's on his own do you think this will become an Ambassador Animal then because it's going to  be difficult to like let him go one of his eyes is pupil

doesn't dilate and that's that's the  kind of thing where it's just like you know but I am still I'm covering this up I'm trying to not  talk to him or interact with him too much yeah uh he would be a great Ambassador but you're still  treating him as a possibility of uh yeah unless it's like and we won't know for sure until we  move him into one the smaller flight pen and once he gets in the smaller flight pen if he can  fly around and if if we if he can prove to us that he can eat a baby mous

e or a rat or catch it on  his own C one yeah that's one it's like all right he's ready to go that's really cool man Ben this  is so rad dude I'm glad I drove like 1,200 miles to see this I'm serious I am too oh boy these are  three baby feral Hogs they're a little skittish because we just came up and started talking uh  but if you come in here and Crouch down let's do it let me tell you about when I ride my bike on  the levies at home um I was telling Ben earlier about this No Nonsense I was ac

tually riding my  bik at night with a hand lamp on and one of the full grown SS plowed right into just ran into you  ran right into me man on the Lev hey little guys all these people in my comments saying why are you  keeping them alive why aren't you killing them cuz when they're babies they are literally just pigs  look he's going to he's going to crawl over to us in a second yeah it's so crazy um but yeah  look at him coming over uh and these guys I've just been giving Ultra 24 milk replacer

uh yeah  here they come it takes a little bit they're like okay these these guys aren't just angry Predators  they're friends dude that's so nuts now these are feral so you can't release these guys so no and  it but it'd be the same thing as like you can't release a wild piglet you know what I mean or like  a domestic Pig true these guys have plenty of food I already fed them so we don't need to do anything  with them we're going to move them out of there what I'd like to do because we're also a

Farm  Sanctuary and what I do with baby piglets when people give them to me anyways is I try to get  them as friendly as possible POS so they can go to a homestead oh really and I know tons of people  that have raised baby uh you know uh feral Hogs and then they end up being house pigs yeah and  they're very intelligent animals also oh yeah and it's just a at the end of the day it's a pig you  know we got them with the umbilical cord still on Wow at that point it is literally just a baby pig  y

ou know that's true because you could take you could take a pot belly and it gets feral like it  turns into a gnarly animal M even a pot belly you know uh this is one thing and because you because  you signed your because you signed the waiver and because you got your rabies shot um this is a well  I had to get it to to volunteer at bush wildlife also so I mean yeah you do you got to be smart  if you're going to work with certain species so this is a tricky thing and I'll show you guys real  qui

ck okay I like and this is this gives you more of like a realistic side of hold on I don't know  what I'm going into and this is this am I closing it's just so so two days ago two literally two  days ago uh two folks that didn't have any teeth brought me a raccoon that they had raised in their  house uh and they said you know oh he loves Froot Loops we've been giving him mostly Froot Loops and  cereal you know like and he is morbidly morbidly OB oh no I was just going to say that so this  is kin

d of a tricky situation where we have a raccoon that's that's a not friendly enough to be  an Ambassador Animal but B definitely not ready to go back to the wild no um cuz he's not actually  eating things that he should be and we we and we're giving him aorus board you know octopus  you know yeah this guy's got calamari I mean holy SM now he's he's he's spent a lot of time in  his pool and he's already been pooping in there this is Awesome by the way hold on a second I like  seeing all these enc

losures I mean this is really cool man you build everything yourself uh not by  myself but with with a lot of good Fellas you know that's awesome uh I've I've been really blessed  to find a lot of help good help yeah and and a lot of bad help too that happen but um but yeah  but we've had seven foxes in here plenty of hawks umons you know and that this this has done really  this was the first big flight pen that I built um but then we realized like oh if we want to get  um if we want to get othe

r Wildlife you know if we want to rehabilitate like red tail hawks or  red shoulder Hawks uh Great Horn Dows bar ows Barn ows and then we're right on the highway yeah  no that's perfect so people can deliver animals to you yeah it actually is you're in a convenient  location man that's true and that was a big thing too that was kind of a nice part I'll show you  this real quick um this is the house that I live in now oh right on dude um now I finally get to  live somewhere that isn't inundated w

ith animals uh it was kind of fun to live with them before but  the smells get old yeah dude and and the majority of wildlife rehabbers do actually live that way  they live with the animals uh and that's why you don't see a lot of people's filming it gotcha  the majority of people that do Wildlife re you don't need this is just chickens basic garbage  disposals uh we need to put some more substrate in there but um these are all of our we have a  few of these enclosures and these are what you cal

l our maternity Wards this is where we'll move  the raccoons which we haven't even started getting yet but we're probably going to get at least like  50 this year um sadly I saw quite a few on the road dead there's going to be plenty whenever  they start popping babies out put them into enclosure like this hold on a second who's this  this is garbanzo beans he was a little uh he was a little duck that was like abandoned before he  was fully plumed I have a video called uh what was the video call

ed it was called like how to steal  Ducks from the park or something that's and when he was just a baby or not a baby but whenever he  was like a bit younger he wasn't fully Plum he uh he was just like following some child around just  chasing him around and I thought for sure like oh this is like this kid's duck you know there was a  family that was fishing and I went up to them and I was with some friends like toss and tortillas  and um there they said no it's not ours I was like is this your

duck he was like following them  up the ramp out like to the parking lot no way and then he was like no it's not ours and I was  like can I take it and he was like I don't care and my rule of thumb is if you can pick it up with  your hands it belongs on a farm it's probably not a wild duck so this is a Rowan which is like the  domestic version of a Mard okay um and he loves to just attack me until I throw him up in the air and  then he will literally fly all the way back to the pond but there he

made it about halfway that's so  crazy man so he awes and he'll keep bothering me until I do that look at all these enclosures man  yeah so this this is our other flight pen uh and we can split this in half if we need to separate  species okay um but we have here uh this is where we've had bar DS uh Great Horn DS um and then just  like Miss we get a lot of Mississippi kites just a lot of random Raptors um and right now we just  have two the nutrias in here you can barely see them in the corner

yeah they're in basically you  find them a lot in Louisiana they have a bounty on them in Louisiana um that's crazy $6 per tail  wow uh this is overgrown and we need to cut this but this put those sadas in there they'll mow it  right down or the Capp oh there's already a frog in there that's funny cool uh but this is a Paul  Cafaro said he was going to come over and help me install this this filter I got so we can turn  this into clear nice moving water but for now we that doesn't matter cuz all

we're using this  for is for rehabilitating marsh Birds Shorebirds great blue herand like egrets um but this could  also double and I I always build things thinking oh if I want to change it up or if I like don't  want to do wildlife rehab anymore this could be an alligator like set up we could have heat in  that storage container you're going to need a bigger you're going to need a bigger Pond for  uh the morls that's for sure yeah eventually Y and then if we had this heated honestly this  wou

ld be fine for him uh whenever it was you know but we get some pretty harsh winners and go  you know it's not like East Texas or South Texas but um this is going to be really cool to have  you know we can rehabilitate King Fishers and all that's so awesome man it'll be neat but  uh right here we have the back area and all of this like I said this used to be that that  building that we were in with the reptile room that a Chop Shop it used to be a different Barn  that that looks like a a cppy bar

it is that's way that's sylvesta Sylvester sylvesta is with  Kevin because they don't fight but he will fight with every other cppy um and now it got to a point  where he was attacking the uh the other male and I put him with the dogs and now they all cuddle and  hang out and they're in they're in that they're in that back area over there um well how many  Cappies do you have so we have two males that were surrendered to me because the the folks that  got them were kind of in over their they go

t them for their kids at an auction and that's how it is  in Texas people can also hunt Cappy bars here um and that's a Rel and that's a ria right yeah and  people hunt Ria too here in Texas Kevin is uh my son but he is so overly aggressive that he was  given to me because uh for free because he would just attack literally everything on the ranch oh  my God uh that's bigger than him at least so this dude that had apparently cuz Texas is weird this  dude had giraffes and other and zebras Kevin wa

s attacking the giraffes and the zebras way just  chasing him around and they were scared of him um so the dude was like we need to get rid of this  animal and some Ria are just hyper aggressive like that uh David's helping us right now by fencing  off this Pond and we're getting this Pond done by aquae oh right on dude and uh and then their  contractor that helped us out Prairie Creek ponds is going to do uh another kind of little version  of what we have over there just because um if we have t

he Cappies in here they will just poop in it  and and you need it it's better to have it moving yeah that can be potentially dangerous we always  keep fresh water available in a bucket like that I don't have anything in here right now though  gotcha and the Cappies have been going in there and then jumping straight into the fresh water  funtic look at this guy dude he's yeah yeah he won't let me walk this is how he is and this is  just a random duck that we just picked up from downtown that ende

d up being a best and you could  tell he was a house duck this was someone's like Easter pet that that they didn't want anymore as  one has you know he he bothers me until I throw him up like that and then he'll go all the way  into the now that's an Aquascape yeah so this is uh they they worked with some other contractors  to help get us set up Greg wittock we love him we love that boy he's he's a bit of but we love them  uh yeah and they did a great job oh my gosh it's beautiful I have any ser

ious complaints like we've  had something like this Boulder kind of sunk down a little bit um you know we have algae building  up now because I need to put some more bacteria in there well what happens after the winter is the  water temps are going to get warmer you'll get the algae bloom but just make sure you inoculate this  with that bacteria like you said and the other thing is getting the plants you want those plants  to start growing they're going to help out compete that algae um but it's

totally normal it's a  it's an actual ecosystem I love these things look at this there's one of them there's one of  the plants yeah the animals tend to move things around this duck is I am really happy about this  so that's the intake Bay now that's now getting filled up with uh the pollen from the trees this  is the first like early spring we've had cuz they did this in April of last year okay um so uh what  I'll do is I'll I'll clean this out that's why I was carrying that pool net earlier a

nd we have the  bacteria dispenser but I think it's out right now okay and that's why yeah oh the um doser yeah I  just texted Sean about that cool um but uh and then these will all grow up to cover hi the fence  yeah and it'll be really nice in the summer I mean this is a really beautiful water feature man and  this whole area was just full of tires and and oil and trash and cuz this all used to be a chop shop  where they cut up cars sell for parts they do oil changes the umbrella grass is fina

lly coming back  oh yeah um was a gift that somebody gave the gator head now yeah that's pretty kind of neat but um  and then this is the uh Wetland Wetland yep so cool It's Kind of Perfect For What and this was  kind of the vision we had a long time ago and the fact that we can have the Ducks and occasionally  the cies we have two of the females that I'm now keeping separate from the males because they're  star to fight the bailes back they're getting a little too much action oh yeah yeah it's

the  spring you know everything everything's like that if you want to throw them oh no that's hysterical  man yeah know he loves that and then I need to fence this off cuz because they'll eat it to the  the Ria the kangaroos what kind of plant tree is that I think this is a plum oh cool yeah so you  like to grow things that you know bear fruit as you can see I'm not very good at it uh that's okay  I don't have a green thumb yeah that's the thing I I can keep animals alive pigeon dude yeah so thi

s  is a pigeon and this is Kevin's son so I only I only hatched three of Kevin's eggs uh to the point  where and then he was an assisted hatch that was like stuck in the Egg and I raised him inside and  that's why he's super friendly um even though he like looks really aggressive and he'll open his  mouth up he's scared of you he's being camera shy right now but usually he'll come up to me and  he'll let me pet him so let me explain something to you about ostriches for me every time I I love  th

ese birds but every time I look at them I just think of them I look them in the eye and I feel  like they're going to nail me in the eye they well Kevin Wood it looks like he would too but because  I raised him in the house even when he is like in an aggressive so what's the story with the ostrich  the ostrich was so people Farm them for meat and they hunt them here oh man um and he was a orphan  from one of those farms and I reached out whenever I was really bored working at Oracle in my sales 

job um I would reach out to them to the farmers and I'd say Hey whenever you get babies like  chicks with curled toes spayed legs uh and issues like that give them to me instead of just calling  them okay and what I and I ended up having about a 70% success rate with with with doing that and I  would just look at like primary literature on vet care for them okay um because it used to be a big  thing like austrich used to be worth like $20,000 now they're not worth like now they're worth like  6

00 I think they were like going to farm them for me and like it was going to be the next turkey  burger type situation every everyone freaked out over ostriches in like the '90s and then it boomed  it got really expensive and then it just it just dropped and then and then people were giving them  away they were just releasing them on I35 no way and there were ostriches in Texas just running  on the highway this guy's AR Ria and he's Kevin's son so he has his aggressive jeans but because I  erase

d him he's left friend but he has bit me and I still have a scar every now and then he'll bite  me and it's not that bad there you go they are I mean I look at these guys it's impossible not to  see a dinosaur I mean it's insane they literally are like look at those legs and this is the only  ostridge that you'll meet that'll well he's being the camera shot or she is but um uh this is the  only ostrich you'll meet they'll let you just slap her thigh really and just get in there and  yeah that's

in she's real friendly like hey Bird that's a big bird man my uh Kate does not like  birds and I think that would freak her out no I have friends that have like irrational fears  of birds and my place is like a nightmare for them especially with Kevin Kevin being afraid of  him is like a very rational thing um and then we should have oh yeah there they are that's funny oh  boy look out so they so I I let all the female Ria the female Cappies and all the kangaroos have  full access to this entire

area including the pond wow um this amazing this is more space than  any zoo that I've seen has given to to kangaroos usually the zoos don't even give them grass cuz  they don't want them to get worms um we don't have a huge problem with that uh but this is the baby  he was our Little Orphan that was the baby yep uh and now he's a big boy oh man they can mess you up  right like he can yeah he won't this time of day only only in the mornings and in the evenings like  at night aggressive and like

he'll want to play but if we can walk right up to him I don't know  with with the three of us maybe uh yeah I mean I'll do whatever's safe quiet oh he's [Applause]  not he's intacted too huh oh he's rolling around no way hey de baby and he's my son but during  the day I'm saying like all they do at night you can't keep them off me I'll be walking back  here doing chores and he'll be attacking me and I've got video after video of him doing that on my  channel no way she's actually a rescue from

honey Ranch uh I have a friend that does deliveries for  these ranches um and he reached out to me and said hey one of these is a girl and they thought they  were all males and he was like if you want I I can just give you this female wow um cuz nobody wants  to shoot the females especially She's Like You Can Tell She's a little old she's got that tag on her  ears still um so that was a really really sweet thing he did for me your Tails a little messed up  yeah that's so cute man holy so now I u

nderstand it like I always feel like I have a lot of work to  do with my reptiles but they're so easy compared to the warm-blooded animals that you're dealing  with here man well it depends you know what's even easier though than all of these things these  bees you keep bees I have literally done little to nothing for these bees other than trim trim the  weeds like right now I need to trim the weeds the your your uh your apiary enthusiasts will see this  and to say oh no those weeds are too tall

cuz then the mites can get in there but you can see this  is a really healthy Hive I I don't feed them I don't give them nectar I don't give them pollen  they just thrive on their own that's so cool and I've had them for 2 years now and honestly I  need to keep putting more Stacks in there but she's got look at how she's got something hanging  off her little yeah CLA there yeah you might need to pull that whatever that is you want to go pull  her go ahead K I'm sure it's just a what's funny is

the only thing they'll get her to come right  up to me and eat out of my hand well any food but uh hot dogs really and it's just her for some  reason she loves it she was the first R I ever had in Austin at my looks like a hot dog coming  out of there yeah yikes well and that's what it is now that they're eating what they're supposed  to be eating yeah instead of just pelleted food you know they're eating all of this grass uh  they uh they're having a lot better stools got more natural stools lo

ok at this man so this is  the Eagle flight pen what this is the only 200t flight pen that I know of in Texas um and this is  basically based off the same kind of model we had up there but in order to have to to rehab Eagles  and Osprey and I think vultures too you need 100 by I think 20t wide um and this is uh we have  this barrier here in the middle we could separate it into two 100t flight pens but right now because  it's in a u shape it's a 200t flight pan oh that's so cool the it wraps arou

nd yeah and the Cappies  are just in here for now because we don't have any Eagles or off spray to rehab um oh I'm sorry guys  well watch this if you crouch down they'll come right up to you so uh and these are the ones that  I raised in my house now you had one more thing you wanted to show us here yes there is a here  I'll just leave these on the ground for these guys but also the other thing too is if I'm slow  watch this oh you you get a little little handsy with them there Ben yes and they

and they like  it they love it but the issue is it you have to like really kind of get them comfortable first you  know but once you start doing it they'll flop over and then they'll let you scratch their belly you  know and here Dave you can they get in on it but do this and then you have to do it regularly you  know which is you know it's not something that's uh it's not something that I don't like doing and  I do enjoy having them I'm very thankful and that we get the opportunity to have thes

e guys but at  the end of the day you know um with all the other animals I take care of and with all the wild  life all that other stuff uh this just becomes one more thing well you got to be careful of what  you wish for because you know you're you're now a professional rehabber and as you're finding out  quickly um people are going to be in and out of your door man but you're doing such an it's such  a cool job uh that you've taken on you know to do this yeah it's really amazing well and I'm a

nd I'm  super thankful to that we get to give these guys way more space than what we had for them in Austin  when I just had my little backyard oh wow you know and then this even though this place was full of  trash and that's what it used to be um it's it's a lot nicer now to have everything clean this is  I mean you kind of came at the perfect time this is amazing if you had come anytime in the last 2  years it would have been less than complete and now for the first time ever I think I can ac

tually  say this the project is for the most part done all right we're going to go have a look at a baby  kangaroo if you can believe that and he's a sleepy little guy right now but uh oh my God for  a long time you know and a lot of people would ask like oh how like why are you doing rescue and and  um and why are you like aren't you breeding these animals doesn't it stress them to breed them out  and the thing is with kangaroos when they're born they're the size of rice grains or jelly beans a

nd  then they put zero pressure on the mom they latch to a te in the pouch and then they just grow  gradually over a long period of time clearly she's not in trouble or she's not in any pain from  that you know she can hop around she can Sprint full speed with a with a with a baby that's way  too big and that how long will the baby stay in there uh I've seen him out of the pouch completely  uh so he's he's actually at that point where you technically could uh pull him put him on a bottle  I don'

t want to do that even though that's what most kangaroo farmers do um to keep them real  friendly I just am already friendly with the mom you know and when it's just me here and not a  group of people she'll come up to me she'll let me like even touch her pouch the baby um and this is  a a different female than one we saw just a little while ago yes the other this one uh this one was  one that I wanted to get for a long time just and she's she's leaving yes exactly the baby needed  a girlfriend

uh cuz he was alone here for a long time and he was raised with the dogs the baby yeah  the baby look at him and he loves the dogs the baby come on it's funny how he gets up and then he  smells me and then he's like all right there's no food holy smokes that's just an incredible animal  yeah that tail they use their tail as like a third leg their biology is so strange compared to every  other mammal that I've seen you know like like that was the other thing too that I really wanted  to show peop

le on the channel at least once is the miracle of the marsupial birth yeah here she comes  now they're born and then oh she's all right let's see if she follows me yeah they're born outside  of the pouch and they have to make that Journey to the pouch all being the sizes as you say iceam  yeah yeah crazy it's pretty insane um no other animals really go through that yeah it's just some  hay a that's all just some hay in your butt ah no big deal push well I got to tell you man there's  not many pe

ople that get to spend their days with kangaroos crocodiles ostriches Birds of Prey I  mean so you are definitely blessed and lucky and the best part is you're doing an amazing thing  for these animals and just being here now and seeing it seeing everything no knowing how much  work goes into this that's just so cool bro mhm I'm super super thankful it's a huge blessing that  we get to experience all these look at the little tail curly got God there's a little baby in there  that's so Co you'll

see the face if we follow her that yeah so you're stoked man yeah I'm I'm very  thankful um yeah and it's it's come a long way too you know that was the other thing too it didn't  happen at once you know we didn't just get land that was already nice it was this was literally a  crack house there was a homeless Camp here that's but here's the thing it's it makes you feel better  cuz when you work hard at something um and you see something that's CH look at it oh can you he go  back in he went bac

k in yo get back out oh that was so cool I think we got it yeah you got it I  think we got it um no but when you work hard on something to to see it grow and Blossom and change  by your own hand is such a satisfactory thing and I always tell people they always ask me how can we  do what you do you just got to do it you just got to start you got to start you got to you know  start small don't worry about being this just in increments you know what I mean you got to be  willing to do it alone too

cuz you won't you won't have help all the time not all the time that was  other big thing God God has provided just about everything you know but it it's there's days where  it's lonely yeah there's a long lonely season I all of the fencing here I remember doing by myself  being kind of depressed before before we had the animals before everything was like flourishing you  know um it was a winter and it was just a you know but you're question like what am I doing yeah and  that was literally a mo

ment where I I was building all this I was like why am I doing this like why  what what's my purpose why am I here and then and then the spring comes around yeah those days are  important also to be honest I mean oh yeah those are those are true tests you know uh you can  it's one of those things where you know you can be blessed with certain things but you got to do  the work to appreciate the blessing does that make sense nothing good comes from Idle Hands that's  correct and I think that's a

good place for us to sign off listen if you want to follow Ben if  you don't already do it it's Urban Rescue Ranch on YouTube Instagram Tik Tok all social media  platforms um if you want to the best way to help them out oh wonderful as a perfect awesome animal  yeah it's true true love true love he loves me if you want to help him out watch the videos check  out what he's doing here if you live in Central Texas uh I'm sure there's a place they can donate  to your cause and stuff like that yeah w

e we do have a link for that and uh I'm very thankful for  that's Kevin's noise um we I put all the money I make from the YouTube right back into this this  it's clear and we didn't ask for donations at all until this year now now that we are getting  like 10 possums a day it's it's like okay maybe we should you should be at least getting donations  for the uh for the uh you know Miler here's the thing man um why respect what you're doing is  because you're actually helping animals like you know

I I work with the TSA I work with these  other sanctuaries um I take most of them are like let's have let's have some [Music] pets no a  lot of other YouTube situations are just that but it's really cool to see what you're doing you're a  young guy that's got his heart in the right place and thank you awesome than for it means a lot  coming from you I've been a fan of your since I was literally long time ago this is awesome long  guys give him a follow if you don't already I appreciate everythi

ng he's doing here and um what  a great way to start my trip in Texas with a real live Texan by way of Pittsburgh we'll see you  later k Kevin's attacking he just wants to he's out for blood at all times but he will not attack  that Cappy that Cy is there you go see you guys