With my experience looking at and watching what they do, I give them a 5 star. The thing that I like about them is that they are providing so much fun to little kids and even adults. What could be more fun than going to a real family ran organization with WOLVES!? She is only doing this to have fun most of all, and to raise a family just like you and me. If she wants to sell bones and teeth etc... they are her animals to deal with. And they don't jut have wolves! They have foxes, prairie dogs and much much more. Plus it isn't just her that is skinning animals to have as a cool rug or wall ornament, what about the Native Americans or hunters that also do this for a living? No one gets mad at them and she is doing it to the animals that she raised.
Thanks For All You Do!
This place is actually just a glorified exotic farm. They aint doing anything they shouldn't. its just good clean fun.
Though, Ms. Petter, May have founded her collection of wild animals with the thought of educational good, her venture has changed to one of a questionable and apparently illegal nature. Their is little profit in petting. Zoos and most have turned from “free” admission to charging over time. Ms. Petter would have been better served to have have had a much smaller stock of animals, rather than tame the babies and then electrocuting them anally with a probe. This is definitely animal cruelty, along with selling pelts and body parts at her “gift” shop and likely the internet.
It is unfortunate, and no animal should suffer captive cruelty and ultimately a painful death.
Review from Guidestar
The reason this so called business keeps evolving and changing is because they keep breeding the animals so when they reach maturity they can be destroyed, skinned and sold. The owner has sworn to this under oath in a court of law. To try to cloak this shady business under the guise of a non-profit educational experience makes me sick!
Review from Guidestar
I would do a zero star if possible. This "charity" is nothing but a sham 501c3 to cover for a for profit business. The owner breeds wolves, fishers, foxes, prairie dogs, and any animal she can. She then displays the animals, gets donations, has volunteers etc, and charges to "pet" or photograph the baby animals. Come winter, she kills and skins the animals and sells the bones, meat, hides, teeth, nails, you name it. DO NOT DONATE TO THIS FAKE AND DISGUSTING charity. The animals are kept in small dirty cages with no water, and cats and chickens roaming about. If a cat or chicken happens to get in the wolf cage, opps, stupid cat.
Review from Guidestar
We should not be providing funds to entities that skin animals. This is not a non-profit task. Learn to make a living doing more productive shores that does not involve skinning animals. Shame on you.
The conditions of this farm are bad. Lack of water for the animals, too small cages, filthy, old. Worse, the animals are skinned when the market is good - from Terri Petter's own deposition. Google it. The nonprofit seems like a front for her fur pelting business - Fur-Ever Wild - nothing wild about this place
Wolves, Woods & Wildlife is focused mainly on Wolves but they also have other animals including Cougars, Goats, Raccoons, Chickens, Horses, Porcupines, Prairie Dogs, Foxes, Rabbits, Bobcats, etc, etc, as well as all of their off-spring. My girlfriend is a volunteer so my exposure to the experience is frequent and I see changes every time I visit. They work really hard to ensure the experience keeps changing. The experience keeps evolving and it's worth your time as an individual or as a family, to pay them a visit.
Review from Guidestar