Alberta organization looking after baby skunks [Video]

Baby skunk season has arrived in southern Alberta, according to the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation. (AIWC), which wants to share a few tips for any Calgarian who might find one in their backyard.

The organization, which has been dedicated to the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned wildlife since its founding in 1993, issued a media release Wednesday announcing that three striped baby skunks have come into its care in the past week after being separated from their mothers.

Two, who are around three weeks old, were discovered on their own after their mother was trapped in northwest Calgary and relocated. The babies are too young to survive on their own, so they will be cared for by the AIWC’s clinic team until they have grown a bit, when they’ll be released back into the wild.

The message that the AIWC hopes to send to the public is that prevention, …