People acting with compassion and kindness.

I'm still crying with joy SB and Falcon, thank you both, denise
 

SeaBreeze said:
Saving Baby Elephant and her Mom



Most conservationists believe that man should not meddle with the natural order and that we should allow nature to run her course however cruel or grim it seems to be.


However – every rule has an exception and the dreadful plight of a baby elephant trapped in the mud of the Kapani Lagoon and her mother, who had also got stuck trying to save her yesterday, had us all in a frenzy of activity. We simply could not stand by and watch them struggle and slowly die.

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and runs to find her baby and the rest of her waiting herd! The happiest possible ending!
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Gosh, judging by how Mama's hip bones are sticking out, she may have been there for a few days! How wonderful that everyone worked together to get them out!
 
Awesome people, I would love to just help animals all day long. Maybe I need to try and see if there's a place for someone my age to help animals. Maybe it will just be one animal I can bring home and care for. I would so love to do more.
 
Falcon and SeaBreeze, As a big animal lover these stories made me so happy. I love every living thing and feel they all have a place here, even more so perhaps than we humans. How anyone can turn their backs on a animal in trouble if they can help is unbelievable.
 
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When we first moved here, I spotted a couple of little baby raccoons lurking around the cage where our two hens lived. After watching them for a day and not seeing any mother come to retrieve them, I called the Fish and Wildlife agency. They asked if I could catch them but not knowing anything about raccoons and how old they were, I was understandably a little reluctant to just wade in and grab them.

In the meantime, I'd been taking boiled egg and other goodies out to them. They both chowed down so quickly initially that I could tell it had been a long time since they had eaten. One thing that bothered me terribly was listening to them. While one seemed to just mumble and chuckle as it ate, the other was slower and cried continuously. That little guy had also had a big patch of fur ripped out of the top of his little head, so I'm guessing that a dog or fox may have grabbed him at the nest and perhaps his mother had been killed defending them.

Anyway, the second day when I was taking another meal out to them, I couldn't see them until I happened to glance down into a pile of old flower pots and there curled in the bottom of a big one were the two babies, curled up and sleeping soundly. I very carefully laid a handy board across the top of the pot to trap them in and then quickly made up a nest of hay and clean shavings in a Rubbermaid bin. Very carefully, I managed to tip and then slide the little guys into the bin and lightly laid the lid back on to make it dark and cozy and to help calm them. Poor little guys were so freaked out I'm sure.

When I phoned the Fish and Wildlife guys back, they came out a few hours later and transported them to a local wildlife rehab place called Hope for Wildlife. I called a few days later and unfortunately the little whimpering guy had succumbed to whatever injuries he had, but the other one survived and was probably released a few months later.

So do any of you other folks have any stories of helping wildlife? We'd love to hear them, so share folks!
 
Thank you, Falcon and Seabreeze and all the others who posted these beautiful rescue stories. I'm sitting here on a Saturday morning bawling over the compassion that we species can show one another. These stories have made my day.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Saving Baby Elephant and her Mom

It was extremely heartening for us all to see how many local people joined in the efforts to free these two elephants – the cheers of joy, first when the baby ran to his cousin and then when Mum was finally released from the jaws of the sticky, cloying mud were wonderful! Everyone seemed to identify with the mum’s plight - we all saw the incredible emotional bond between the worried herd members and mum and baby.
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I had not seen this SeaBreeze. It's SO lovely!
I've posted it to my facebook page and I hope it gets passed around...and around...and around!
It tells us much about animals...and some of us. Thank you!
 
Rocky said:
I had not seen this SeaBreeze. It's SO lovely!
I've posted it to my facebook page and I hope it gets passed around...and around...and around!
It tells us much about animals...and some of us. Thank you!
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I've seen this one and others on Facebook. Love them!
 
Oh Debby,

thanks for being caring. So sad about wildlife, and their fight for survival, but like the vids, those little fellers were lucky, even the baby who didn't make it got to have some loving in the end.

I do have a story that just had happened here in the Park. Our neighbor lady has been nursing/caring for a Ferrel Kitty, very old and very beat up. Pauline has babied him since I moved in last July. Lots of people would not have cared one bit, but Pauline spent time just petting and loving on this poor, beat up guy. He had a terrible meow, like maybe he had gone deaf, I don't know. Anyway, just last week Pauline and her husband were all over the place looking for the kitty, I think he wandered off to die. I think cats do that. Pauline cried every time we talk to her, tears up, but just yesterday I told her she gave that kitty what maybe no one else would have. She said he gave her just as much back.
 
Bently, a 9 month old pot-bellied pig is a resident of the Earth Animal Sanctuary after having a seizure on February 23rd. which put him into shock. He also has bacterial meningitis which is potentially fatal and has left him blind. This kind woman visits him daily, as he becomes very afraid of all the hospital noises around him. Her she is giving him some comfort, and showing him that someone cares.

 
SeaBreeze said:
Bently, a 9 month old pot-bellied pig is a resident of the Earth Animal Sanctuary after having a seizure on February 23rd. which put him into shock. He also has bacterial meningitis which is potentially fatal and has left him blind. This kind woman visits him daily, as he becomes very afraid of all the hospital noises around him. Her she is giving him some comfort, and showing him that someone cares.

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That is So Sweet, SeaBreeze....a real heart warmer. :love_heart: Bless her heart for helping Bentley. Thanks for sharing. :)
 
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