"Lost" Baby Animals

[Catherine]

Every year people bring home "lost" baby birds and they die as a result. Unless you know what you are doing you won't be feeding the baby right. If you do keep the baby alive, it will not know how to survive as a wild bird. What future is there for a wild baby bird that does not know how to be wild.

Fawns and baby rabbits are left alone by their mothers and people keep interfering. They are not lost. That poor little baby bison was not lost. Left alone their mothers come to them and care for them. This is their way of teaching them to be independent.


Sometimes a baby is in actual danger. If that happens, call for professional help. When the Toronto Wildlife people have to rescue a baby they return it if the can. Swans and geese will take babies back. If they have to raise a baby, they raise it to be wild and only release it when it is ready to survive. Without the proper skills and facilities "helping" is sometimes  killing a baby.
I can only hope that this year the message reaches people and they will leave the babies alone and let their parents care for them as nature intended.