I'm talking about young native wild animals,
from baby squirrels to songbirds and others.
Not exact matches
But I mixed them up a little bit with embellishment - some have a bit of doily love, some have freezer paper stencils, and others have fabric appliqued pieces (with help
from a few of the books on my shelves: the
squirrel is
from Sew Liberated, the birds and chick
from Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing for
Baby).
In doing so we unearthed a whole load of long - forgotten
baby things both children have outgrown —
from far too many bags of clothes to the playmat via the cot — that we seem to have
squirrelled away in storage.
One afternoon, over the course of a couple of hours, four WING IT volunteers fielded multiple calls
from the public with questions about wildlife, orchestrated pickups of various animals
from different veterinary hospitals, fed bunnies, birds, a raccoon and a flying
squirrel and discussed the best way to tell whether or not a mother bunny had returned to the nest to feed her
babies.
Alaska Air Stops at Nothing to Find Lost Cat, Pregnant Dog saves girl
from drowning in Philippines flash floods tragedy, Screaming
Baby Squirrel Caught After 40 Foot Fall, Cat survives four - hour, 200 - mile journey sitting on engine of car.
One celebrity leading the fight for animal rights in the public sphere is comedian Ricky Gervais, who has done everything
from promoting the adoption of shelter animals, speaking out against people who leave dogs trapped in hot cars, donating money
from his tour to animals, shaming trophy hunters and those who wear fur, and even rescuing a
baby squirrel!
And as for wildlife:
baby birds and
baby squirrels come our way because they get separated
from their moms before they're ready to be on their own.