by Melanie Stefanic / Melanie Stefanic 2005

Small, helpless baby squirrel. I could not leave you by chance to be found so I kept you warm, fed you formula and cleaned you. I wasn’t as good as a mother squirrel would have been but I loved you as dearly. For over a week I tenderly cared for you, watched you learn to scratch, crawl and move you tiny tail. How precious you were! Thank you for sharing your light, for warming my heart. Because of you I will care for other wildlife in your name. I miss you, my baby.

 

Melanie Stefanic