have you ever saved any wild injured/baby animals?

[coral]

Cool! I've found a few salamanders and newts around my house to that's really cool did they have babies while they were with you?

[dohcsvt]

My father found a baby whitetail buck along the road near its dead mother and brought it home. We took it to my grandfathers farm where he hoped to keep and raise it. He called the state game commision to find out if he needed to get a permit to keep the animal and they wanted to come and see it. When they got there they told my grandad that having the fawn was illeagle and he wass lucky they were just going to take it from him and not give him a fine . Sometimes people irritate me. Anyway, I am assuming that they took him to a fcility where he was raised and cared for.

[Marnie]

i have saved a few baby possums. i always check the dead ones on the road as they have babies on them in april and june. nothing sadder than seeing a baby sitting on top of his dead mother wondering what to do now.
yes the game commission came and took my first one, (it was taken to a wildlife rehabilitator)
so the second time i had them i wasn't stupid enough to call them and ask for a permit.
they are as easy to raise as a kitten. they will eat most anything.
i know, they have a face only a mother could love! lol

[liz]

Wow, you must be an fallen angel from heaven!

I have no stories though one day, i did find a baby Sparrow and my little brother and i wanted to keep it and raise it ourselves but our parents said that if you let it outside, it'll eventually learn by itself. It was fairly hot outside so i did sneak out a plate of water, and some rice but the next day, the bird was gone.

The little sparrow had probably just come out of the nest and could not fly. The parents were trying to get it to cover like a bush or tall plants.

My cat was poking a baby robin to make it yell. I brought the cat in the house and waited for the mother to come after it. She might have had too many babies down at once and did not come back.

I brought it in at night and fed it dry cat food that I had softened. The next morning it woke me up calling for more food. While I was waiting for the cat food to soften I opened the door and their was another one in the same place. I put the one I had right beside the one outside and watched the mother robin take them both to cover.

[liz]

i have saved a few baby possums. i always check the dead ones on the road as they have babies on them in april and june. nothing sadder than seeing a baby sitting on top of his dead mother wondering what to do now.
yes the game commission came and took my first one, (it was taken to a wildlife rehabilitator)
so the second time i had them i wasn't stupid enough to call them and ask for a permit.
they are as easy to raise as a kitten. they will eat most anything.
i know, they have a face only a mother could love! lol

I volunteered at the Wildlife Rehab Center at the NC Zoo while I was still able to leave the house.
We took in injured or young for rehab but got the info of where they came from so they could be released where nature had intended for them to be. The rehab centers have vets on sight and on call for any that need extra care.

The dead possum on the road was one of the things we were told to check. Good work.

I raised 8 baby rabbits that had no hair and their eyes were closed. That was 40 years ago. I knew not to give them milk but did not know about milk replacer. All I could think of is what I would feed the mother. I put every grain I had in the house in a pot and turned it into soup. I kept them until the fat little furry guys could no longer be contained no matter how big the box then released them on a friends farm.

My biggest challenge was a September squirrel (Rocky) knocked out of a tree during a huricane. People seem to bring me things they find. His eyes were closed and he had no fur. By then I knew about milk replacer and fed him that. By the time he was a trouble maker it was too cold to put him out. He lacked the knowledge from his parents to build a nest so I wintered him. It was April before I could get him out of my house. Every time I walked away from the house he would jump off and go back. Finally I enticed another little squirrel in with black walnuts. Before going to work I put him by the walnuts so he could scent the other one. He looked back at me and I told him to go. He followed the trail to the woods and I went to work. When I came home he was hanging on my garage door waiting for me to et him in. I did and he went right to his make shift cage, ate and climbed into his toboggan for the night. The next morning I put him back out to play. He was not waiting for me when I got home so I went in the woods to call him. He came to me and jumped on my shoulder but jumped off when I walked out of the woods. I left my balcony door open a little that night in case he changed his mind. The next morning he was a my bird feeder on the balcony wth his new friend both covered in pine sap. I was going to wipe him off but he pushed my hand away. That was the last time I touched him but for the next 5 years they came to the feeder. When I sold the house I made the new owners promise to keep the feeder full and they kept their promise.

When hurricane Fran knocked a little girl (Frannie) out of a tree she was brought to me. I know how overwhelmed rehabbers get so I kept her until she no longer wanted her bottle. She was so beautiful with silky fur and a sweet personality but did not want to get stuck with another that would not leave home so then I took her to a rehabber. She was put in an enclosure outside with a bunch of other little girls that were a little rough and tumble since they were raised together. The woman told me the personality of each of the others so I knew she would be cared for. She was accepted instantly and played with them. Within 15 minutes I could not tell her apart from the others.

There have been many including reptiles but the last one was a baby Starling. 2 years ago I took it from my daughters cat and named it Friskies. He must have fallen from the nest but I could not find the parents and tried for hours. He could not fly or feed himself so it was up to me. As I learned at the zoo, I used moistened high quality cat food (that's what I give my cats anyway) as the base of it's food but added a variety of berries and softened raisens and anything else I could come up with. He was flying around the house and enjoying himself too much so I decided it was time. Starlings nest in the red tip bushes in my back yard so I kept bread out to entice the flock down and put Friskies in the open window. He flew down and begged for food and they took turns feeding him. When they flew home for the night Friskies came back. This went on a few days and then the flock did not come back. All he could see in the yard was Chick Chick so he went to her. She acted like a mother hen and called him and taught him how to peck for food. When she came in for the night he did too. Finally I closed the window. He came back every morning. I would go out during the day and feed Friskies and Chick Chick moist raisens (my son came over and saw what I was doing and called his friends to tell while he was watching me). A week later the flock came back for a few day and when they flew away he went too. He came back this year fully grown and beautiful. He called to me through the screen so I gave him soft raisens. He was a happy healthy bird.

Okay - I rambled on again but what do you expect from an old lady housebound with her mother and aunt.

[spiral]

Hi there
recently one of the people who helps me found a baby blackbird that looked extreamly thin, so we feed it some apple and a worm and took it to a local wild bird hospital where they said they could re release it when it put weight on.

While my father was living in france he was brought a injured barn owl from the farm next door, it had somehow hurt its wing so he and the farmer caught mice in traps for it and fed it by hand for about 5 days before the re realsed it again.

[liz]

Spiral - how wonderful that you are in a family of critter lovers. I see now how you got that way. I had to learn on my own but my kids have learned from me. (My son has 2 daukson sisters. I am very grateful he did not have children. Those 2 girls are spoiled rotten to the point of being bad.)

[spiral]

My father,
Loves animals but pretended when i was a child that all the pets we had were for me, and my sisters.
When my bugie laid an egg when i was small my father got so exited he hopped up and down! even though he was 40.

he was exteamly upset once because he ran over a slow worm with his car. Thats a small legless lizard. he thought it was a stick on the road beacause they are brown but he cheered up again when he realised it could regrow its tail , and would not die.

i am alway happy to have any all animals around because i feel calmer with their company, and cannot understand people who dont enjoy animals in that way, or whildlife whatever it happens to be.

[ValleybNY]

My family and I, ever since i was born we work along side with a local vet that rescues baby raccoons that were abandoned or injured and raise them! Its such rewarding experience! We bottle feed, wean and teach them life skills, like to keep away from snakes to climb high when in danger... We normally keep 6 or 7 every year but some years are worse than others and I think the most we've ever had was 10! They all have names, personalities, likes and dislikes. We keep them for about a year and then release them on a preserve upstate NY. Its always so much fun! Im one of three and we live next to our two cousins. So we each get a baby for the summer, that needs to be bottle fed every 2-3 hours (depending on the age) cleaned and cared for. And then when they are old enough they go into these HUGE cages in the yard where they learn to be a family unit and bond with one another.
My uncle has been known as "Nature Boy" ever since he had a pet crow that could talk when he was 10. He's the one that organizes the whole procedure.
There are permits and classes that are involved. So if any of you are interested in getting involved with something like this contact your states DEC and they can tell you where you can go to get a wildlife rehabilitation permit and what not! its a lot of fun! and its nice to have fun and give back to mother nature once in a while!

[cornettocockatiel]

No. I haven't, but I want to one day!