Wild Heart Ranch is located in Claremore, Oklahoma. We provide medical or infant support to any indigenous wild animal in need of assistance and release it into suitable wild habitat once care is completed.

About Us

I am Annette King Tucker and my partner, Sandy Brooks and I founded and operate Wild Heart Ranch, a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facility located in Rogers County, north of Claremore Oklahoma. I began this venture in 1996 as a State licensed Center for all species of wildlife needing orphan support, injury treatment or disease recovery. My husband Robbie Tucker and I as well as a dedicated staff of volunteers and our esteemed Board of Directors & sponsors have helped create a strong and capable place where all wild animals, as well as some severe cases of suffering other animals, can receive professional medical and supportive care until they can be released back in the wild. More than 13,000 wild animals have left our facility with a second change at survival.

Wild Heart Ranch is available 24/7 for emergencies. We can not take in homeless dogs and cats. We do not have room or the funds to assist them, though it breaks our heart to turn any animal away. If we can't handle a situation, we usually have advice, instruction or will refer you to an appropriate organization or give you numbers for wildlife rehabilitators closer to you if you have rescued a wild animal and are not local to us.

We are not a public zoo. We are a 24 hour wildlife medical clinic and pre-release care facility. We operate as a hospital for wild animals who are often frightened and recovering from trauma. We want to share this experience with everyone, and do so with this web site, books, stories and newsletters. Be sure and sign up for our blog to the left so you will automatically receive updates and posts, and please send kudos to our webmaster, Dave Pettigrew, for this AMAZING web site he built and hosts for us at no charge. He wants our donation money spent for animal care, and this is how he helps us do it! What an artist! What an incredibly generous act! If you have any web site needs, I probably do not have to point out just how talented he is! We are all blown away! Like I always say, if you can't make a donation, spend your money with the businesses who support us and other animal rescues. It makes a difference! Support, (like other substances), rolls down hill!!

Our Mission

We are Wild Heart Ranch, Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Center.

Our chosen purpose is to:

  • Provide medical or infant support to any indigenous wild animal in need of assistance and release it into suitable wild habitat once care is completed.
  • Refrain from imprinting the animal to its human caretakers during its stay in captivity
  • Educate the public about wild animals in our area and teach a genuine appreciation and respect of their needs and characteristics
  • Educate ourselves in the care and needs of each species that we experience so that all animals receive complete, professional and individual care
  • Maintain our facility in the most stringent of cleaning and organizational standards to prevent errors, disease, infection and hazards to both humans and animals
  • ALWAYS respond with patience when faced with ignorance and remember that not all the world has seen through our eyes or cared with our hands
  • Lend assistance, instruction or advice to anyone trying to assist a wild animal in need of care
  • NEVER cage a wild animal a day longer than necessary, and always euthanize if release will never come

Our Credo

We are a wildlife rehabilitator. Our mission is not for personal gain, but to work as an instrument of compassion and provide a haven for those who have no person to claim responsibility. We are proud of the way we spend our time on this Earth, and of the results of our labor, for we do it not for the recognition or the rewards of mankind, but for the nurturing of our own spirit as well as those who find their way into our hands. We will not boast of our skills, but seek pride as the proof of our talent runs again free and whole into the wood. It is at that moment that God smiles upon us and says;
'Job well done.' That is why we am here.


Let our desire for their freedom be the strongest motivation that brings us here

Annette King Tucker