bless her heart. so many folks tend to ignore all the little creatures that we see daily and some of them suffer terribly. nature can be cruel at times.

if i see an animal suffering, my first instinct is to try and save it. this summer i rescued a baby bird, just days old. it had fallen from its nest and there was no way to return it. the nest was in the rafters if a shopping centre’s outdoor garden area. i nursed “floyd” a baby starling for well over a week, feeding him every twenty minutes from dawn to dusk. i contacted a wild bird rescue and they told me how and what to feed him.
sadly little floyd passed away from unknown causes. he was doing so well too, had bonded with me and everything. i was so upset when he died, i actually cried on and off all day. how nuts is that?! i even buried him in my flower garden and put a little marker there.

if it happens again, which i am sure it will, i’ll do it again and again. i have been like that since i was a kid, always brought home the strays or abandoned. this eventually translated into my love life LMAO! i have since gone back to animals, much easier to deal with

this not a not a botfly

How cute. My wife and I have had at least 3-4 generations of squirrels on our property that tamed up; one even waited for her to come home from work and here she comes running, jumps over to a brick post by the door and waits for her goodie – lucious pecans, little grey-bums.

Chrisa, you are such a tender heart like many other animal lovers who visit this site…WHO LIKE GROOSSSS JUICY PUSSSSSS BOTS WARBLES MAGGOTS AAARRRRRR ARRRRRRRRRRRR EEEAAAAUUUUU

Ahhh, that squirrel was so cute! That looks like a cuterebra that my vet tech friend brought home. (She’s gross like me and keeps nasty tumors and such from surgeries. Not a giant collection, just a couple samples of gross! lol) The cuterebra was just as big as that and came out of a 6 week old kitten.

I like people who help little critters too. So awesome!

God bless this woman! I love animals, but admit I would be hesitant to tackle this job on an awake, cute but wild little creature with teeth. What a little cutie that baby is….the squirrel, not the larva.

i don’t think that is a botfly larvae, it has no circle of barbs, and it’s transparent, a fly, but not bot, anyway, I thought bots were found in central america.

Ah, that is really nice. I had a bad experience with a squirrel so for some reason I think they are dangerous, lol. I once fed on a potato chip and it held my fingers as it ate the potato chip, needless to say their nails are like razor blades and just holding my fingers cut me up. I wouldn’t pull away cause I would have been really screwed up, lol. Cyber therapy I feel better now.