Baby animals you've saved.

[Dags90]

I googled 'Thrush' to see what it was, assuming it was a bird but unsure, and I have to say DON'T GOOGLE THRUSH!!! Especially if you have safe-search off. My GOD that wasn't the worst thing I've seen but it was pretty bad. Mouth disease or something...guh...

Thrush is an infection of the by yeast, usually only seen in people who are immunocompromised. It's a common complication of AIDS and chemotherapy. It's also a type of bird.

I once nursed a baby wolverine back to health, my nipples still have the scars.

Oh, and a lagomorph from my window well.

 

[Mirror Cage]

A kitten that was lying by the side of the road. He recently passed away, but was a 30 pound lummox for most of his adult life (he wasn't fat, just HUGE). Also dumber than your average cat.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

I grabbed a puppy out of a street in my city. The puppy's owner was very nice about it.

As they should have been, you were only doing a noble deed.

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Oh my goodness, let's have babies.

If this works, that's him/her.

D'aww, that's cute
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Now, back OT: I can't remember the last time I saved an animal which was a baby, but my family and I have saved quite a few animals in our time...
One of my favourite memories is on my way to school back in Secondary School, my mum was driving. We saw a bird on the side of the road, very hurt, looked like it had been winged by a car.
It was still alive, though, so we got out of the car, put the bird in a green shopping bag Protip: we put it in the bag because almost all wild animals calm down if they can't see (there are a few exceptions to this rule, most notably Humans, who freak out the moment their sight is blocked ).
Block their sight and everything becomes much easier. , and took it to the vet.
I was late to school, but it was definitely worth it. ^_^

 

[Rensenhito]

I saved a baby chipmunk back in high school. It was outside on the ground, barely moving around, and there were three or four other people gathered around it like "OMG WUT WE DO?" So I, being a man, scooped up the little furball and took it to the Biology teacher at our school (who loved baby animals and knew how to care for them and all that).
So that was nice.

 

[Bacontastic]

My home has fairly deep Window Wells. I've had to rescue little bunnies that fell through the grating many times. Its a nightmare trying to catch em inside the wells, But its nice to do a lil good.

 

[dslatch]

When I was nine I saved a chipmunk that my dad shot (.17 pellet gun) he got it in the shuolder. Tried to save it feed it all that, when my dad found out he took it and said he released it... 7 years later i've figured out what he really did with the little guy.

 

[Savryc]

None, I tend not to get involved, circle of life and whatnot. Who am I to deny a fox a meal of (what appeared to be) a broken legged rabbit? And there isn't much I can do for that wee badger when it's been pulverised by a few tons of motorised metal.

 

[Aesir23]

Well, a stray cat that I took in, fed and was quickly adopted by a friend of mine was apparently pregnant. Does that count for saving baby animals?

 

[Alcari]

Mostly I've saved not-so-cute animals, like frogs and toads. Some of them were really really small, like pinky fingernail small which might make them somewhat cute...

And I've saved a baby deer from a deep trench along the road, for which the cute little guy rewarded me with a kick hard enough to dislocate my shoulder. Oh well

 

[Commissar Sae]

Saved two generations of Chimney swifts that fell down the chimney into our furnace (the furnace was off). Those birds are noisy little bastards.

Also saved two baby racoons. Their mother had been relocated by animal control so the two little ones were wandering around in broad daylight. Kept them quarantined in a cage in th garage for the summer then passed them on to a woman who would take care of them.

Edit: oh and 2 cats I guess. They weren't really babies when i adopted them off the street mind you.

 

[Lizardon]

I grew up on a farm where we had sheep. Every year or so we would find a lamb alone in a paddock who had either gotten separated from it's mother or the mother had died. Which case we would take it home, feed it from a bottle, wrap it up in blankets and take care of it for several months. Unfortunately some didn't survive, they were too young or were abandoned because they were sickly, but we saved vast majority.

They all went back into the flock without much fuss except for one, I believe we named it Sarah who still hasn't forgotten us after several years. When herding the sheep instead of running away, she will walk up to us and look for food or want a pat/cuddle. She's even crossed the entire farm, getting through several fences to get to our house just to play with our cats and dogs.

Oh and our cat Millie was found by my Grandparents on their farm and we raised her. And my mum found a box full of puppies on the back of an abandoned truck when she was a teenager. They were all died from the cold except for one, who was the families dog for 20+ years.

 

[Vrex360]

Once when I was a little boy I was holidaying on Rottnest Island and while my parents were at a Quiz night I stayed outside and I saw a bunch of drunken teenagers harrassing a mother Quokka and her baby, they ultimatley drove the mother away and then left so I sat down and cuddled the baby quokka for about an hour until finally it's mother came back.
I felt pretty proud of myself under the circumstances.

 

[Padwolf]

Long post coming up..

Me and my father saved our cat Tribble. He was homeless, we don't know how long he was homeless for, it could have been years. He was thin, tatty, had fleas but he was a beautiful cat. He started coming up to our house and me and dad left food out for him. He was scared of everyone so he never came in. After a year he eventually did and I led him in and put him on the sofa. He is the most loving cat I have ever had, he always wants cuddles. He is scared of going out though and when he does go out he stays right by the door. He flinches though if you raise your hand in anyway and he runs away, we assume that whoever had him before abused him and possibly left him outside.

Me and my mother saved a baby fox once, she wrapped it in a towel and brought it home, it was in a poor state. We got it to drink some water and kept it comfortable until the fox rescue people came for it. I've also saved a frog from one of my cats, she chased it into the house so I picked it up, locked my cat in the house and took the frog back to it's little pond we had in the garden. I also saved a young bird from one of my other cats, I got the bird to eat some bread and I stayed with it until it was fit to fly away.

 

[phylline]

I've volunteered in rescue organisations, but I don't think that counts.

A four week old rat came to me, horribly malnourished, I had the task of nursing her back to health, finding her a good home (I keep boys, so it wouldn't have been a good idea to keep her) and socialising her. Glad to say I managed it (I got her back to healthy weight, her current owner is AMAZING and she's now trusting of people) and still remember her. I was doing quite badly at the time emotionally due to a break-up from a year-long relationship, but she just completely put everything in perspective. Horribly cheesy I know, but I think the 'saving' thing was mutual between us.

 

[Artina89]

Near where my dad works, there is a family of swans that live under a bridge (my dad works near a canal) anyway, he noticed that a group of chavs were tormenting something under the bridge so he and his best friend went to see what was up, and they found one of the adult swans injured and the chavs were going to try and kill the babies with a rock. After my dad and friend threw the bastards into the canal, they called the RSPCA who took the adult and the babies to help them recover. My dad let them know when the other adult swan came back so they could take that as well.

 

[Puddleknock]

Saved a baby bat once, well I say saved I saw a baby bat got freaked out and got an adult to help (was only little). Still happy ending the bat, though injured, was taken to a vet and survived. Well at least thats what they told me, for all I know the bat could of died the second it was out of my sight.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

I've saved several birds that got stuck behind the plastic panneling on our living room windows. The gap came straight down from the attic so sometimes small birds who got in fell down and got stuck. They all got realised again after a few hours just fine.

I've saved a few baby rabbits from the cat at work. The bad thing is he doesn't kill them, he just brings them in and plays with them so we have to get them off him and take them back up the field again. I've also saved a small blackbird from him as well.

While I didn't save him, the cat at work is a rescue cat. Next to our shop there's a stables with lots of feral cats. One of them had babies in our garden centre and we found 2 of them. Unfortunately one vanished, we think a fox got it, but the other one we brought in and he's lived with us ever since. Bravest cat I've ever known, a huge dog will walk up to him and he just sits there, doesn't bat an eyelid.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Removed a woodchuck from my wire-fence.
Stupid thing got spooked, and booked it towards the fence at full speed, and apparently tried to squeeze THROUGH it.
It got its head stuck up to its neck, so I put on some heavy gardening gloves and wrenched it out. It looked stunned when I put it down and let it go.

 

[m3nt1a]

When I was 5 a baby squirrel got into my friends apartment and I was holding a tin coffee carton thing and hit my friend's mom in the head with it (I was curious as to what would happen), and the squirrel ran out.

So... I kinda saved it? She was trying to hit it with a broom and may have succeeded if I hadn't cut her head open.