We took a trip out to the Wildlife Centre in NW Calgary where our client Naomi works. She showed us around and we walked up to the corral where the little rescued deer were. One of them had been brought to the centre only moments after birth. When she arrived she hadn't even stood up yet. They are thriving there and are sharing their sanctuary with 2 little mule deer fawns who were too skittish to come out of the tall grass for us to see them..
Naomi feeds them goat's milk and treated them to some apples when we arrived. The fawns have unbelievably cute little faces and were fond of licking each other's mouths.
Fortunately they will soon become adolescents and will be eager to escape the confines of their safe enclosure and will reject any human contact.
But, for the moment we were visiting substitute moms and they allowed us to touch their warm sweet little bodies and pet their soft heads.
This little baby hare wouldn't look me in the eye. He tried to make himself invisible.There was a new recruit volunteer starting when we arrived but the staff of two is pushed to maintain a hot line of over a hundred calls a day with rescue queries and new arrivals.
Ducklings of various ages and a mother. The Centre operates out of a tiny little house way up on the NW end of the city by the Penitentiary, it obviously runs on shoe string budget and I am sure they would love to be the beneficiary of more generous donations.
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