Even after he was rescued, the odds didn’t looked into his favor as they couldn’t find any place for him in the nearby wildlife rehabs. 

Then, Nikki Robinson – a wildlife rescue volunteer – stepped in! “When you ask what you should do with [an orphaned raccoon], they say, ‘Leave it alone and let nature take its course,’” Robinson shared with The DODO. 

“That broke my heart. I couldn’t let that happen!” A big hearted woman, Nikki decided to make everything in her power to save that little soul. 

But since she was working all day long, she reached her mum who was retired and looking for some company, especially the company of a baby raccoon. 

They named him Little Hands and since then Nikki’s mom and the orphaned animal became inseparable.

 

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“The first time she bottle-fed him and he looked up at her, she just kind of melted,” Robinson said. “She treated him very sweetly early on because they like to be touched a lot. So she created a bond with him.” 

 Thanks to Nikki’s mother, Little Hands made an incredible recovery and within a few months he was strong enough to get back in the wild. But even after they released him, 3-4 months after, the woman that used to bottle-feed him still left him some food in the back yard. 

That until, the raccoon seemed he wondered away from the property. However, from time to time, Little Hands keeps visiting the woman that saved his life, even though it’s been roughly three years since they first met. “Every day, she sits outside and waits, and even when they’re grown up, they’ll visit her and she just lights up and she just loves it,” Nikki said. “He wanted his snuggles, then he’d have his food and wander off.” 

 Watch this lovely duo, here:

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Best friends for over a decade, these two very unlikely companions perfectly show what animal world is all about. 

Everyone meet G-Bro, the gentlest golden retriever, and his very best friend Buttons, a rescued deer! 11-year-ago, when G-Bro’s human, Lorrie learned a deer was hit by a car, she immediately offered to help, even though she had no idea how deal with it. 

However, she decided to foster the poor wild animal. But little did she know her noble gesture will eventually change the deer’s life and her dog’s too. “When we first rescued Buttons, we had a friend that had raised a deer, and somebody called them and said a mama deer got injured,” Lorrie explained. 

“They called us and we gladly accepted…It took a lot of work, but our whole goal was to let her be wild, but also become a part of the family.” 

 After Buttons fully recovered, and the time came for her to be released back in the wild, Lorrie and her family were not too happy about it, since they all grew fond of the friendly deer, but they eventually accepted it. 

Surprisingly, Buttons did not wanted to leave her adopting family, especially her great buddy G-Bro. So even after releasing her, the faithful deer kept visiting her dear friends. 

Year passed and the rescued deer still adored to hang out with her friend dog and the family’s cat. So everyone got used with Buttons’ unexpected visits. “Buttons will just show up at the door, and that’s when you know she wants to see her buddy,” Lorrie said. “She’ll even paw at the door if you’re not answering in a timely manner.” But the most surprising visit was when the deer showed up with her two babies next to her side. Although the two fawns were only a few day old, Buttons wanted to introduce them to her dearest friend and to the family that saved her life. 

Unsurprisingly, G-Bro immediately fell in love with Buttons little ones and he even helps her friend with the maternal duties. 

Find out more about this incredible friendship, in the video bellow: You can keep in touch with these great friends on Instagram, where G-Bro’s parents constantly share updates with their unseen bond! Source

For the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue group in Indian Trail, North Carolina, they were blown away by the overwhelming response of kindness they received in relation to a social media post. 

 The rescue group helps birds in need, and last March, they put out a plea to the public asking that people donate knitted or crocheted nests for the baby birds in their care. PHOTO: UNSPLASH/HELLO I’M NIK
What they didn’t see coming was the thousands of packages and handwritten cards that they were about to receive in response to their post. 

Some of these care packages and cards even came as far away from other countries like Canada and Japan. 

Many of the notes that were written were such things as requests to be updated on the status of the baby birds or others who were happy to donate more all the rescue had to do was “let us know if you need more nests.” A wildlife rehab specialist for the Carolina Waterfowl group, Bayleigh MacHaffie, expressed in the video below, “It’s just so great that people go through and make the effort to try and help like this. It’s a great reminder for us that people care.” 

According to the rescue group, March is always “baby season,” as it’s the time of year whenever they see the most number of abandoned or injured baby birds. As a result, it’s always their busiest season.

According to MacHaffie, this has meant that in the past, they’ve had to help approximately 3,000 baby birds over the course of one summer! 

That is a lot of little orphaned birds – and they were mainly songbirds as well. Because of instances like that, MacHaffie emphasized the importance of the knitted nests excuse they actually help a growing bird’s development. 

She explained that if the baby bird doesn’t have a nest to hold them as they grow, they’re at risk of having their legs develop at splayed-out angles. That is partially the reason why a large amount of donations meant so much to the rescue center because it gave them the best chance of helping baby birds develop to their full potential. And that is always a wonderful thing. 

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So, despite the heartwarming footage below, seem too surprising to believe, this Alaskan woman stable upon the most incredible sight. A bald eagle, a fox and her two cats were ganging out on her back porch. When you live in the city of Unalaska in Alaska, both eagles and foxes, are a very common sight, but when you spot them chilling on next to yours cats, in front of your door, that seems a little exaggerating.

Nevertheless, that the kind of sight Pam Aus, came upon, and not just once. Although Pam’s cats – Gizmo and Suitcase – are extremely friendly, she never thought they will befriend wild foxes, let alone bald eagles. It all started on a snowy afternoon, when Pam who inside her home, heard some noise coming from the back porch, so she went to investigate. 

Surprisingly, her two cats were there, but not alone. Turns out, they got some very unlikely visitors.

 

“I was in my room on the computer and I heard the eagle squawking,” Pam explained for The Huffington Post. 

“I looked out my windows and saw this. It’s kinda common for the foxes to be friendly — same with the eagles. But seeing all three there was exciting. They all just sat there.” Since then, the odd friends kept visiting Pam’s cats, and the woman constantly uploads videos of their heartwarming bond on Youtube. 

In one of her videos, can be seen not one, but at least two eagles visiting her cats. But this comes pretty natural when you thinks the place is famous for its massive eagle population. 

Though in Unalaska live around 5,000 people, the small harbour is home for nearly 600 bald eagles. “The eagle couple claimed a lamppost across the street from my house,” Pam said. 

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