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Lost and Alone, a Baby Skunk Found Exactly What His Heart Was Looking For
Last week in Massachusetts, a wild baby skunk began a heartbreaking journey in search of his missing mother.
For days, she hadn’t returned to their den. Driven by sadness and instinct, the tiny skunk ventured out into the wide, unfamiliar world — hoping to find her. What he found instead were strangers from Newhouse Wildlife Rescue.
“The little baby skunk wasn’t out long before he was captured and placed in a box — which terrified him,” rescuers wrote in a post. “He was hungry, scared, and missing his mom. The last thing he wanted to see were a bunch of tall, looming figures when that box opened.”
But the strangers had no intention of harming him. They were there to help — and unbeknownst to the baby, to reunite him with the very one he was searching for.
Just days earlier, Newhouse staff had rescued a mother skunk who had become hopelessly trapped in a fence. Though they could tell she was nursing, they hadn’t found her babies — until now.
As the tiny orphan was carried to the clinic, he could never have imagined what was waiting for him.
“To his surprise, he was gently placed in a small enclosed space,” rescuers wrote. “When the door closed behind him, he looked up … and there she was. The one thing he had been searching for — there was his mother.”
It was a moment of pure healing.
“The baby ran to her and buried his face under hers,” the team shared. “She lit up for the first time since she’s been here and immediately covered him with her front paws — as if to hug him and protect him.”
After days of separation, fear, and uncertainty, mother and baby were finally back together — safe, comforted, and whole.
Rescuers are continuing to search the area in case more of the mother’s babies are still out there. But for one tiny skunk, at least, the search is over.
“Last night,” they wrote, “this moment was everything.”