I swear he's alive. Just sleeping! 😍😄

I swear he's alive.  Just sleeping!  😍😄

I've been so busy, y'all.  I've been trying to keep posts to a minimum due to my precarious permit situation, but here is an update.  🙂

After releasing Little Mama I found two of her babies in my garage.  Opossums are little escape artists!  They even got out of my opossum moat!  😳  That was crazy!  Anyway, since I still had my orphans I just stuck them in all together - for a total of 11 babies.  Little Mama's two are a little larger, I've got 7 who are about the same size, and 2 runts.  Pictured here is one of my runt boys.  I ended up separating them from the rest of the herd to make sure they were getting enough to eat.  They do eat and poop and all that, but they are just tiny.  About half the size of the medium ones, though they all came from the same litter.  They are also a lot sweeter.  They try to climb my arms every time I do anything in their area.  All of the others shy away.  I have a feeling my little bits are mama's boys.  🙂

Other than that I had a friend call me with a bat.  I was all set to get him to a proper rehab center this evening, but he died today before I got home.  🙁  I was really sad over that.  I helped him drink water last night and it was the most amazing experience.  I'm telling you - if I've ever been high on anything it was helping that bat drink water.  They are so extremely tiny and delicate and weird.  I feel like I connect with lots of animals... easier than I do with people, even, but I wanted to smash that little bat to my chest and make life stay in him.  I hope that I at least made his last moments more comfortable.  I made him a box with a branch to hang from, though he couldn't hang.  There was also a leafy branch and he would scoot up under there when I put him down.  Maybe it felt a little more like home being in the leaves.  I hope so.  ❤

In other news I've got two baby birds.  They don't look like they are the same species.  I picked them up tonight and will get them to a proper rehab center ASAP.  The last time I rehabbed birds was years ago before I knew it was illegal, but they were pretty easy.  I still want to help everyone that I can help, but I'm trying really hard to not push it and get caught.  If that happens more animals will suffer and it will be my fault.  So, taking them in temporarily is about the best I'm comfortable doing.  I do plan to finish raising and releasing Dumplin' and the opossums, but until then I have my hands full anyway.  That is a lot of little critters needing care and attention.

Anyway, I hope that all of you are doing well.  That's about all that's been up with me.  I hope you enjoy the photo of my little runt buddy.  ❤