The Wildlife Rescue on Dobbin Hufsmith Road Opens Its Doors One Saturday a Month
By The Magnolia Standard · July 28, 2026
Everybody in Magnolia eventually finds something. A fawn in the ditch, a hawk that hit a window, a nest of squirrels after a storm takes the limb down. There is one licensed place in this county to call, and it runs on donations.
Friends of Texas Wildlife is a group of trained, permitted volunteers who take in injured, displaced and orphaned native animals from Montgomery County and the counties around it. The group says it is the only wildlife rescue operation in the county whose rehabbers hold permits from both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Those two permits are what separate a licensed rehabber from a kind neighbor with a shoebox.
The volume is the part that surprises people. Thousands of animals a year, according to the organization, each one needing the kind of care that doesn't keep business hours. Malnourished, sick, badly injured animals need feeding and medicating around the clock, and a nest of orphaned babies in April does not care that it is 2 a.m.
None of it is government funded. The group is a 501(c)(3) that takes no local, state or federal money, so the entire operation runs on donations, memberships and fundraisers. It says 100 percent of donations go to the animals.
How to visit. The education center at 29816 Dobbin Hufsmith Road is open to the public on the second Saturday of each month, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The next one is August 8. It is a real chance to see the work up close, and the sort of morning a kid remembers longer than a movie. The organization's main center on Highland Boulevard keeps hours Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
How to help. Volunteers are the whole engine here, and the group recruits through an email sign-up at ftwl.center@gmail.com. If cash is easier than time, there's sponsoring an animal, a membership, or the Kroger community rewards program, which costs you nothing beyond linking your card once.
If you find an animal. The phone number is 281-259-0039 during center hours. After hours the group directs people to ftwl.help@gmail.com. Worth writing down before you need it, because the day you need it you will be standing in your yard holding a laundry basket over something.
Sources: Friends of Texas Wildlife's own website (mission and service area, permitting claim, funding structure, education center address and second-Saturday public hours, center hours, phone number, volunteer and after-hours email addresses, and ways to give). Annual intake is described by the organization as "thousands" of animals; it does not publish a precise figure. Program dates can change, so confirm before driving out. Corrections to newsroom@themagnoliastandard.news.