About Us
Wae Too Wild is the retail side of Wild Animal Encounters, Inc; a nonprofit utilizing displaced and non-releasable native and exotic animals as animal ambassadors to teach the public about these amazing creatures.
Husband and wife team, Dan and Emily, run both Wild Animal Encounters, Inc. and Wae Too Wild. Dan has been in the wildlife industry for over 30 years as an educator and animal trainer. Be sure to follow Wild Animal Encounters on Facebook and Wae Too Wild on Instagram @waetoowild
100% of proceeds go toward the programming and animal care at our private sanctuary. To learn more, head on over to our website at www.wildanimalencounters.com.
We look forward to connecting with you and sharing our passion and creations with you!
WILD ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS, INC
Dan the Animal Man has been bringing animal edutainment to events for over 29 years. Every presentation is unique, so even if you've seen him before, you've never seen the same presentation!
Dan is a wildlife educator, animal behaviorist and motivational speaker. Our animals have been shown at corporate functions, school assemblies, outreach events, studio and production work, churches and more!
When you book a program, we provide an entertaining/educational live animal experience utilizing displaced exotic animals and non-releasable native animals. We have a wide array of birds, mammals and reptiles
Learn more about Dan and our non-profit, Wild Animal Encounters, Inc at wildanimalencounters.com
Donate to Wild Animal Encounters, Inc.
With a staff of two and a sanctuary of 25 (and growing), our animals need to be taken care of regardless of our income through programming. As with many businesses, the pandemic drastically cut our organization’s income, but expenses increased. Therefore, we are still trying to recover, rebuild and recoup. We rely mainly on program fees to cover overhead but donations are always accepted, greatly appreciated, and tax deductible.
How Funds are Used
Last year brought many expense challenges such as needing to build a new facility and needing to purchase a new animal van after Dan’s accident in fall of 2021. These expenses were added to the daily operating expenses such as food, supplies, utilities, facility lease and travel expenses.
With big animals comes big appetites! Our eaters need about $230 a week in groceries and $135 a week in rodents (frozen). That’s a big grocery bill but we only feed our animals human grade groceries (aside from the rodents) with all produce coming from Costco, Sam’s Club, Aldi, Walmart and Lidl. With such high quality food, our animals are rarely sick and our vet bills are luckily one of the smallest expenses we have.
Being an outreach program means we come to you with our animals and unfortunately gas is still on the rise. Our fuel and vehicle costs have increased to an average of $950 a month with our busiest month (July) guzzling up about $2000 in gas and our slowest month (December) sipping a modest $400 in gas.
While program fees keep us afloat, donors bring a special kind of joy and financial relief to our little sanctuary. All donations are tax deductible and all donors receive a thank you letter and receipt.
Thank you from all of the animals and their keepers at Wild Animal Encounters, Inc.
