Billy spotted an otter cub near his pontoon and, noticing the cub’s unusual lack of fear, realized it might be an orphan. He and his wife took the cub under their care, nursing it back to health and making it a part of their family.
Billy was sitting in his house, looking over the pontoon’s edge, when he suddenly noticed the otter cub diving right in front of him.“Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to see how close I could get to it,” he recalled.
Billy knew that recently, not far from their home, a female otter had lost her life in a road accident, so he assumed the cub was probably her orphan.animalBilly and his wife started carefully nursing the cub back to health, and eventually, the otter became a huge part of the Mail family. Even their rescue collie, Jade, created a beautiful“There was a lot of stuff happening at the time and Molly turned up right in the middle of that,” the man recalled.
“Especially when she was younger, and if you were outside working she would have to come and see what you were doing,” the man said.
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