Have you ever raised a wild animal?

Question

If so, what kind and how did you get it to raise?

Thanks for all the interesting stories. I have found baby bunnies and baby birds but they died shortly afterwards. I held a baby deer earlier this summer that someone had caught on our property. He was wanting to take it home and raise it and then eat it when it got big, but I turned Bambi loose. We still see Bambi and his mom occasionally. We have been putting apples and some corn out for them. I wouldn't take a baby away from its mom tho. They need their mom and need to be raised in the wild. I didn't know that you would need a permot to have one tho, except for like a coyote, wolf, etc.

Answer 1

Seeing that I am a wildlife rehabilitator, I have raised almost every kind of animal that is present in Connecticut: raccoons, skunks, foxes, fishers, grey squirrels, red squirrels, flying squirrels, birds of all sorts, opossums, cottontail rabbits, mice, rats, beavers, muskrats, woodchucks, and fawns.

I have never personally found an animal myself. I get the animals through compassionate people. Most of the animals are orphaned, usually the mother was hit by a car or killed if the tree was cut down. Sometimes I get the animals because they were out and about and were injured by vehicles, humans, or domestic animals.

Please note that it is usually illegal to care for wild animals unless you have a special permit. I wouldn't want you to get yourself into trouble with the law. :)

Answer 2

i'm no longer completely particular, yet from what i've got heard, particular, some animals could be knowledgeable if raised exact from an extraordinarily youthful age. yet their instincts are different from, say, a dogs's, so there is usually a hazard with them. notwithstanding I doubt wolves and hyenas could prepare properly, in the different case we could in all likelihood hear approximately them greater. i understand puppy foxes are an exceptionally common 'wild' puppy animal human beings have now.

Answer 3

yes, a bunny, i went to a horse pasture to look at a horse we were going to buy, and in the pasture was a small bunny, the size of the palm of my hand , with a huge chunk of fur off and a broken leg, a horse had kicked him with a glancing blow, i took him home and put ointment on his skin and put the fur back and then wrapped it with gauze, and then i wrapped his bad leg to his body, and i held him , the next monday i called the wildlife office and asked if i could get an emergency wildlife permit, so i could take care of the bunny, and they did the inspection of conditions and allowed me to get my permit, Harvey grew up, and the next spring while i was cleaning cages in the barn, he took off. I think it was the call of spring, that next winter i saw his tracks in the snow as his broken leg sort of made his one foot stick out at an odd angle. i dont know how long he lived but at least 2 years. the one i had him and the one where i saw his tracks. I hope he had a big family.

Answer 4

I've raised several: Ducks, Squirrels, Bob Cats, Wolves, etc.
I volunteer with the humane society. A vet calls me and I go get the animal.

Answer 5

yes. a baby bird who and a baby squirrel. I guess they both fell out/wandered out of the nests, but we couldn't find the parents anywhere and didn't want to just leave them to their own devices, as both were really really little. so we took them in. you shouldn't look for wild animals to take in. If an animal isn't born in captivity, they dont really take very nicely to being caged or taken out of the wild.

Answer 6

Yes, I raised a baby racoon for 1 yr, then we had to get rid of it, he got mean

Answer 7

I have 2 boys. Very similar yet more challenging I think :-)

Answer 8

i,m nursing a baby rat i found right now its eyes are still shut.

Answer 9

yes bear when I went for hunting

Answer 10

nope, but i'd like 2 =] kyuuuuuute