A certain person, who shall remain unnamed, said that she didn’t understand why I would drive many miles to pick up baby squirrels or possums to rescue them. This person is a true animal lover so I’m pretty sure that if it came down to it she would drive the miles too… especially if she saw these precious faces!
Yep, I’m pretty sure she would drive the miles.
Little Princess Paddy loves me a lot. But it’s Mr. C. who has stolen her little beaver heart. With him she feels completely secure and is able to lay down her head, roll over onto her back, expose her fat little belly and fall into a deep sleep. She obviously adores him… as do I!
I do believe that he is pretty smitten with her as well!
I took little Paddy to see the vet about the back leg being swollen and she had to do x-rays. Sooooooooooo, since there wasn’t any sign of a particular BONE in another part of the x-ray we have determined that little Paddy is a princess… yep, I have a baby girl! It’s going to be hard to stop calling her HIM now!
The leg is a mystery still. There weren’t any obvious cracks and no infection in the joint so it’s going to be a wait and see what happens game I guess.
This coming Tuesday will mark the 3 week anniversary of Paddy coming home with me. Scroll down a few posts to see one of the first pics I took of him. (STILL not sure of the him/her title yet!)
Now here is a more recent pic…
and another…
These were taken over a week ago and I’m sure that he’s gained even more weight since then!
He looks like a fuzzy football now. We’ve struggled though some type of skin infection and now he has a swollen rear paw. The vet will look at that either tomorrow or on Tuesday when I go to the center. He definitly had a difficult start in life but sure fell into quite the posh lifestyle here on Sassy Cat Hill!
The cats are all interested, but slightly scared of Paddy. Not sure what it means, but Bits has a scrap of knitted yarn that she carries around all of the time; we call it ‘her baby’, this morning she brought it over to Paddy and dropped it next to his ‘den’ in the living room like she was sharing it with him. It was sooooooo cute!
Last weekend the Capris came for a Fall visit. We had a great time although we had to stick closer to home than usual since I had to take care of little Paddy. Mr. C did a great job of helping with that though.
Little Miss Poppet was very happy to have all of the extra laps to sit in. She goes from one to the next so no one feels left out or unloved.
On Capri K’s lap… love those Life Is Good jammies!
Getting good spanks from Capri P
Lovin Capri D
And back where we started to begin the next round!
Now don’t go freaking out… not THAT kind of mom!
It looks like God wants me to be a beaver mom in the worst way, so my fate and destiny are sealed.
When I went in to the BRWC last Tuesday, Peg was filling me in on all of the latest news and about our new ‘patients’. Then she told me that they had gotten a call about a baby beaver that a nice man said he had found in a ditch a couple of weeks ago after we had some heavy rains and storms. Well, we were just SURE that it was a baby groundhog because beavers are only supposed to give birth in the early springtime, NOT in the fall! After several phone calls an arrangement was finally figured out that Angela, another volunteer that lived closer to the guy, would go and pick up the baby and that I would meet her part way and bring it back to the center. Well, lo and behold it was definitely a baby beaver… a very young and very skinny baby beaver. He/she (don’t know yet) had terrible diarrhea and was not feeling well at all. Obviously, this baby’s mom had not read the textbooks about when she was supposed to be having her babies! We think he/she was born sometime in September.
Anyway, it turns out that since I was the one that took care of Jerri Mathers, that I have the most experience caring for baby beavers at the BRWC… so the little one came home with me and is now ensconced in a ‘den’ in my master bathroom. And since we now know that baby beavers will become very attached to their human moms, it looks like it’s going to be kind of a long term thing cuz we’re not sending this one to Virginia Beach!!
I’ve named he/she Paddy after another orphaned baby beaver that I read about in a book my Sissy (aka Capri P) found for me at a used book store. That Paddy’s story had a very happy ending so I’m hoping that this Paddy’s story will go the same way.
So, meet Paddy…
Paddy still doesn’t feel very good, but I noticed an improvement when I took him/her outside to enjoy the sunshine and green grass this afternoon.
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