Meet Bucky, an orphaned beaver kit who was rescued by Wild Heart Ranch.
Bucky can’t yet be released back to the wild for reasons I don’t quite understand (I am not a wildlife rehabber, so what do I know) and, because he’s the only beaver kit who came in this season, he spends a lot of time wreaking havoc with his thievery and gnawing through everything in his path.
He just got his own big pool and a pond will be following shortly from whence he can dump the peeps and join his fellow beavers in the wild.
Bucky enjoying his thieving ways:
We love Bucky, but we also love all the other critters Wild Heart saves, like eagles:
Moar eagle:
And baby big cats:
who grow up to be big big cats:
And little and big and snapping turtles and owls of every variety, including those darling little screech owls, and coyotes and you name it.
Not that I have any relationship to Wild Heart, but I do love and admire them and donate as generously as I can to them. As a person who’s lived in the woods and loves the woods and grew up spending weekends and offtimes in the woods when I so desperately wanted to be out buying fancy shoes and dresses, and despite my current semi-urban habitation, I am grateful to them for helping to ensure the critters who steal my heart and send a chill of amazement down my spine will still be here in the vast stretches of hills here that the oil companies and developers haven’t yet destroyed.