The Babies of 2004 / Scrapbook


There are 11 baby possums in that pile!	The babies are taking care of the littlest (4 pounds, 4 oz.) baby!	Our red fox has a broken leg which is healing quickly and he will be on his way back to the woods very shortly!

After eating that much, the only thing I can do is take a nap! Sure can't turn over very easily!

He's making sure that John puts the pole in just right for their new feeding station!

This, believe it or not, is a bird! He has nothing that would actually count as a feather and he is so tiny! He's so small we cannot determine what kind of bird he is, yet! But when he's hungry, he's all beak!		Our baby robins don't care where they have to sit! Just as long as someone pays attention and feeds them!

A picture of the whole clan (4) of woodchucks! They love to romp and play with each other but act real tough when a human comes around	This little guy arrived on June 6th and while he is cute as a button, he has very sharp teeth!

Our fearless, and I do mean FEARLESS, leader, Ruth! Here with two of the 8 fawns that we have as of 5 p.m. on 6/7/04. All of the fawns have weighed between 5 and 7 pounds! That's little!	Flying squirrels. Very tiny but quite a handful!

Please volunteer! We have lots of new babies that need to be cared for and we need lots of help!	This little raccoon just came in the 17th of May. He will be bottle fed for several weeks and than introduced to cereal, than cereal and fruit, and eventually solid food. He should be ready to go back to the wild in July/August.	These bunnies have been at the ARK for at least a week and are currently being bottle fed, but will start on other foods soon and go back to the wild.

Babies season has begun. Ruth got these squirrels in around the first week in April. The picture was taken when they were about 2 weeks old. A couple was raking leaves when these squirrels started falling from a tree in their yard. They called Ruth and she told them to leave them in a box by the tree in hopes that the mother would come for them, she didn't and they had become dehydrated so Ruth rescued them. The first month or so they need to be bottle fed every four hours. They will be old enough to be release in June. They are from Ogemaw County	This is a picture of one of the four woodchucks that are currently at the ARK. They are still being bottle fed but are eating fruits and vegetables now. This is the first time the ARK has had woodchucks so I'm not sure about their rehab program.