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SPCA Wildlife Center is Caring for Potato-sized Orphaned Skunk Baby

 

Your SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is caring for a baby orphaned skunk. 


The skunk is about four and a half weeks old. She weighs just 256 grams, around the size and weight of a large russet potato. 


She came to the SPCA Wildlife Center after community members saw her alone near a business park for a few days and became concerned. At just 4 weeks old, she is too young to survive away from her mother. Skunks are normally weaned at 2 months old and leave their mother in the fall months. 


She is currently in a safe, warm indoor incubator while she grows. She eats a custard made from mixing eggs with a specialized formula for baby skunks. Once she is old enough, the SPCA Wildlife Center will release her back into the wild near where she was found. 


“Thank you to our community for contacting us when they see a wild animal in need and for supporting all our rescues,” says Ciera Duits-Cavanaugh, SPCA Wildlife Center Supervisor. “Your compassion lets us always be here when animals need our help.”


Skunks provide natural pest control, as they eat grubs, beetles, wasps, mice, and other similar food. 


Your donations make all our rescues possible. To help, please visit www.spcamc.org/donate. You can also help animals during the SPCA’s A Day of Giving on Thursday, March 19, when all donations will be doubled to help animals in need, just like this skunk. Learn more at www.spcamc.org. 


The SPCA Wildlife Center is the only full-service wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center in Monterey County. Last year we rescued 2,863 injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals, many of them tiny babies.


Right now, the SPCA Wildlife Center is caring for 38 rescued wild animals like this baby skunk. As we move into the Spring and Summer months, we expect those numbers to skyrocket. It’s not unusual for our dedicated team of staff and volunteers to care for over 100 baby birds in a single day. All our rescues are made possible by the generous, compassionate support of our donors. 


The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is the only full service wildlife rehabilitation center serving Monterey County. They operate under permits from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Your support is extremely important to us.  Each year, The SPCA Wildlife Center admits over 2,500 animals for treatment and care.


SPCA Monterey County is your nonprofit, independent, donor-supported humane society that has been serving the animals and people of Monterey County since 1905. The SPCA is not a chapter of any other agency and does not have a parent organization.  They shelter homeless, neglected and abused pets and livestock, and provide humane education and countless other services to the community. They are the local agency you call to investigate animal cruelty, rescue and rehabilitate injured wildlife, and aid domestic animals in distress.


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