Staff at a Virginia wildlife center put on a red fox mask as they fed an orphaned baby kit that was less than 24 hours old when found.
Melissa Stanley, Executive Director of the Richmond Wildlife Center, was captured wearing a fox mask and rubber gloves while feeding the tiny kit that was admitted to the center last month.
When the kit was first found by a man walking his dog in Richmond, she was less than 24 hours old and still had her umbilical stump attached.
In a video shared by the center on Facebook, the baby kit can be seen on top of a large stuffed animal fox as Stanley fed her milk from a syringe.
The approach is to ensure ‘the orphans that are raised in captivity do not become imprinted upon or habituated to humans,’ the center wrote in the post.
Staff at a Virginia wildlife center put on a red fox mask as they fed an orphaned baby kit that was less than 24 hours old when found
In a video shared by the center on Facebook, the baby kit can be seen on top of a large stuffed animal fox as Stanley fed her milk from a syringe
Melissa Stanley, Executive Director of the Richmond Wildlife Center, was captured wearing a fox mask and rubber gloves while feeding the tiny kit that was admitted to the center last month
Stanley told Associated Press that the man who found the orphaned kit initially though she was a kitten and turned her over to the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Staff at the wildlife center were able to find the den site of the baby kit’s mother and three fox kits of the same age as the one in the video.
Bur the whereabouts of the mother fox remain unknown as the ground’s superintendent said foxes had been trapped or removed last month.
Stanley told Associated Press that the man who found the orphaned kit initially though she was a kitten and turned her over to the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Staff have been taking turns feeding the kit every two to four hours, all wearing the fox mask and gloves