Around 70 Wildlife Critters Rescued After the Storms

[evemac]

Source: KXAN Austin


AUSTIN (KXAN)– Austin Wildlife Rescue said it has rescued around 70 animals following the deadly Independence Day flash flooding around Central Texas.

Austin Wildlife Rescue (AWR) said this time of year is “baby season” for many of our wildlife critters, the major storms most impacted those that create nests or dens on the ground.

The rescue team said it received many baby skunks, baby rabbits, and baby opossums that arrived with scrapes, bumps, bruises, and fractured legs.
The team also helped a waterlogged Killdeer that they said arrived extremely exhausted and relatively unharmed. After drying off all day in an incubator, the killdeer fluffed back up to health.

Read more: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/around-70-wildlife-critters-rescued-after-storms/

[slightlv]

1. Thank you, evemac for this story.

The loss of life keeps climbing, and the terror of the kids, especially, weighs heavily on the heart. But it is so wonderful to know that even during all of that, people were still trying to rescue the least of us all. It does my heart good.

[GenThePerservering]

2. I like to call them "God's smaller creatures" nt