Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way…
“It’s important to make sure that the orphans that are raised in captivity do not become imprinted upon or habituated to humans,” the Richmond Wildlife Center explained in a Facebook post.are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care., Executive Director Melissa Stanley is shown wearing a red fox mask and rubber gloves while feeding the tiny kit from a syringe.
Stanley said in an interview Tuesday that the kit was admitted to the center on Feb. 29 after a man walking his dog found her in an alley in Richmond. Thinking she was a kitten, he turned her over to the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She was less than 24 hours old and her umbilical stump was still attached.
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