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SPCA Wildlife Center Rescues Baby Weasel; The Tiny Baby Weighs the Same as 1 Single Strawberry

 

Your SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is caring for a tiny long-tailed weasel who came to us as an orphan. 


The 2 1/2 week old baby, so young that his eyes are not yet open, was found in the middle of a hiking trail in Ft. Ord. Weasels are born underground and do not venture above ground until their eyes are open and they are active and mobile, around five to six weeks of age. 


The small baby weasel currently weighs 28 grams, about the weight of one single strawberry. 


The orphaned baby weasel was dehydrated, thin, and vocalizing for his mother. He is now being raised in our gentle, professional care. Skilled SPCA wildlife technicians are feeding him formula with a syringe eight times a day and through the night. He is in an incubator snuggling close to a stuffed toy. 


 


SPCA Monterey County expects the baby weasel to be in our care indoors for about a month, when he will graduate to an outdoor enclosure to learn to run, hunt, and burrow. He will be with us for at least three months before we can release him back into the wild. 


Your donations make all our rescues possible. To help, please visit www.spcamc.org/donate. 


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


Right now, the SPCA Monterey County is caring for 40 wild patients, including 3 baby hummingbirds, 7 baby squirrels, 4 baby rats, and 5 baby opossums. 


As the SPCA Monterey County moves into the Spring and Summer months, they expect those numbers to skyrocket. It’s not unusual for our dedicated team of staff and volunteers to care for over 150 wild patients in a single day. All their rescues are only made possible by your generous, compassionate support. Learn more at www.spcamc.org 


The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is the only full service wildlife rehabilitation center serving Monterey County. We 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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