Little Critter I Found (NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE REPLY)

Nalencer, props to you for doing all you could! I applaud you.

 

I don't know, I personally think maybe it should have been left alone. This is nature. Unless it was someone's pet or an endangered species, you might just want to let nature take it's course.

Besides, you don't really know if an animal baby is abandoned, it's mother may come back for it after you leave. The general rule is to leave it alone.

It's natural to want to help the wild animal, but in fact you are probably doing more harm than good. Humans don't know everything, esp. how to care for a baby animal better than the mother.

peace
m

 

FIRST I AM NOT A PETA PERSON AND I DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR INSULTS!! AT NO TIME IN EITHER OF MY POSTS DID I SUGGEST TO LEAVE AN ANIMAL FOR DEATH. BUT THERE IS A CIRCLE OF LIFE AND NATURAL REASONS THINGS OCCUR IN ANIMALS THAT HUMANS CAN'T (OR WON'T) UNDERSTAND. I SAID TO CARE THAT IT IS ILLEGAL NOT FOR YOURSELVES, BUT FOR THE ANIMAL, IT IS DONE TO PROTECT THEM, TO GET THE BEST HELP FOR THEM! PERIOD END OF THE CONVERSATION!! PEOPLE WANT TO HELP SO BAD THAT THEY WILL KEEP AN ANIMAL AND TRY TO HELP WHEN THEY COULD BE LOOKING HARDER FOR A PROFESSIONAL TO HELP GIVE THE ANIMAL A REAL CHANCE! AND YES EVEN ON YOUR SMALL ISLAND THERE IS A LOCAL REHABILITATOR.

WOULD ANY OF YOU FIND A SICK AND INJURED HUMAN BABY AND DECIDE THAT YOU WOULD BE THE ONE TO TREAT IT? NO OF COURSE NOT, YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED, OF COURSE YOU WOULD TAKE THE BABY IN AND TRY TO KEEP IT WARM AND QUIET, BUT YOU WOULD NOT TRY TO TREAT IT LONG TERM, IT APPLIES THE SAME TO BABY WILD ANIMALS.

WHICH BY THE WAY 'PETA GUY' KITTENS ARE NOT ILLEGAL TO NURSE SILLY, I WAS ONLY REFFERING TO WILD ANIMALS. SO BACK OFF!

 

very good, exactly my point. they don't know if it is truely 'abandoned' or not. i can't tell you how many calls each spring/summer i and thousands of wildlife rehabilitators across the world get of 'abandoned' babies that are just fledglings out learning how to be big and are should just be left alone.

hopefully more people will start to think like you

 

Hi, Im Sorry About Your Loss, I Have Had Many Rodents In My Time And Yours Looks Like A Baby Hamster, Although Ive Never Seen Hamsters In The Wild. Rats Have Longer Tails And Mice Are Much Smaller.

Anyhoo, I Think What You Did Was Great!!
Merry Blessings To You!!

 

good for you for taking care of the baby. I always take care of the animals I find. I take them to refuges when I can but sometimes that's not always an option. Sometimes, they won't even take them.

The point about not knowing if the animal was abandoned is a good one. That's one of the concerns in my area. A lot of people find baby deer sleeping and take them and try and help them but really their moms were away, not attracting to attention to them and would be back to feed at dusk.

But this little guy, from what I understand fell prey to your kitty (sorry if I don't remember the story correctly) and was injured. I think that anytime man interfears with nature he should take responsibility. When skunks were living in our back yard I had a rescue group come and re-locate them. There have been a few birds that hit our windows and were more than just stunned. They were taken to our local wildlife vet. (Which by the way only comes and picks up animals twice a week, he doesn't live in the area)

This website is too late - sorry. I'm not sure what animal you had but if it was a possum than this website would have been relevant (again, sorry it's so late). At least it is informative and has cute pictures.

http://www.possumrescue.com/foundababy.htm

I'm also from Canada (west coast) and I don't know of any law that forbids you from caring for a wild animal in your home. I know plenty of law abiding people that have done that.

And I want to stress how happy I am that there are people like you with caring hearts that make an effort to help the helpless. That sounded a little cliche but I meant it.

Saje

 

sorry for going off topic, but...
i heard that cats have to be taught the "death bite," by their mothers... otherwise, they won't learn how to kill effectively. so it makes sense that your cat was doing that, especially right after having kittens. anyway, i just wanted to share, 'cause i had always thought cats just instinctively knew the "death bite."

that's awesome that you were able to save baby birds. i used to do that when i was little. in hindsight, i assume they were just fledglings. i took care of a redbird for a couple days, and waited outside with it for hours one day... eventually an adult redbird came for it. it was so cool. my grandma used to feed raccoons "vitamins," consealed in tasty snacks. they'd show up every day in her yard, and my grandma would go running out, put down her platter, and hop off to the side to watch 'em eat. one day, they stopped coming. the story lives up to it's happy ending, though.. eventually they were back, with a bunch of baby raccoons in tow. i used to wonder if the animals i encountered later on were the same ones i had known before. have you ever seen the two birds you saved hanging out around your house?

 

I saved a pigeon once, although not a baby. It had a broken wing and I took it in until it healed and could fly again... then I let it go. But it never left. Every spring that particular pigeon would return and I'd see it every day waiting for me to put out some birdseed for it. It always went with the other pigeons during the winter though. It did this for 3 or 4 years until it stopped coming around again. I don't know what happened to it though, but I hope nothing bad.

 

Poor thing. Looked like it may be a possum or rat. I hate when things like that happen though. I put my love and care into an abandoned kitten I found on the weekend once, and the poor baby didn't make it until monday morning either. I felt terrible!

My twin is going to school to be a vet though, so once she finishes I wont have to worry about that anymore!

I have saved my fair share of animals though. Squirrels, birds, cats, dogs, frogs (they used to get stuck in my pool all the time!). I even take mice out of my house. You will find NO mice traps that kill them anywhere near my place!

 

Ah, my friend has mice and has set up traps. i don't like that but she doesn't listen.

 

i got mouse traps all over my house cuz the damn things keep coming back. Screw saving them. I want rid of them all. Even my cat cant catch all of them. Its like I live in a damned barn of something. I don't hate animals, but I am certainly getting sick and tired of these fuckin mice.

 

looks like mouse or rat, or maby some other rodent. I feed mouse pinkies to my snake, and thats kind of how they look