Shawn and Kelsey took a walk today. Look what they found!
We weren’t sure if it was a badger or a skunk, so we looked it up. Patrick looked up images of a newborn badger and a newborn skunk. We saw the split in the white streak and realized that it was a skunk.
Patrick looked up the number for the Animal Shelter and called them. They gave us another number to call, and nobody was there since it was Sunday, but we will call them tomorrow, and they will probably send somebody to pick it up.
So now we are trying to keep this poor, little baby alive. He must be less than 2 weeks old. Kelsey fed him milk with an eye dropper and held him for a long time. Now Katie is taking over feeding and holding him.
He is very cute. He looks like a newborn puppy.
His eyes aren’t even open yet. Patrick has been doing a lot of research on the care of newborn skunks, so he is our resident expert.
This is the most unusual find we have ever had on a nature walk!
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
