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Kawasaki the Marmot - July 2011 |
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Kawasaki's release
 Like so many Marmots before him, Kawasaki decided one day to hitch a ride in the engine of a car down to Surrey. Marmots don’t really live down in this area, they mainly live on open, mountainous areas. The SPCA managed to capture the marmot and brought him to Critter Care. Kawasaki was very healthy, so he just needed to be taken back up north. Lucky for him we would be taking two of our black bears to be released around Falkland a few days later.
A few days after coming in, Kawasaki, with his high pitched chirp, was on his way home. Taking some back roads Conservation Officer Don Stahl, and Critter Care staff found a nice place for Kawasaki. Staff placed his kennel facing his new home, and with cameras at the ready, opened the door. Kawasaki took a couple of leaps forward, then suddenly changed his direction and ran to the Conservation Officer’s truck. Staff yelled “No!”, but Kawasaki ignored us and climbed under the hood of the truck. The irony had us all in fits of laughter. Quickly we attempted to get the marmot out of the truck, we got him out, but quickly lost track of him again. Thinking we had gotten Kawasaki out we proceeded to continue on to release the bears and then head back to Langley.
The next day, Don gave us a call – Kawasaki was still in his truck!! We attempted to capture him, including setting traps, but Kawasaki outsmarted us all. Kawasaki is now at large in Abbotsford. Those pesky marmots. |
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Black Bear Kila - July 2011 |
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Kila’s release
 Kila came to us in December 2010 as an orphaned bear cub from Kelowna. In July of 2011 she was on her way home for her release. A conservation Officer came and picked Kila up from Critter Care in the morning and then proceeded to Kelowna.
Before collecting Kila, Conservation Officers chose a logging road that would be best suited for Kila’s release - someplace away from people and with plenty of food. After heading up a ways on the logging road, the Conservation Officer ran into a logger. He stopped to ask the logger what conditions were like further up the road.
This logger wasn’t just anyone – he happened to be one of the individuals that helped rescue Kila so many months ago! Tickled to see Kila all grown up, the logger followed the Conservation Officer further up the road and watched as Kila returned home.
It seems Kila’s story came full circle. She was found and rescued by some kind loggers and hunters, grew up at Critter Care, and then returned home with her rescuers watching on.
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River Otter Release - James Island |
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River Otters Release - James Island
In June 2009 James Island staff noticed a very young otter alone and apparently in difficulty near an inland pond on the island. We took the otter in and cared for her for a few days until we could transport her to Wild Arc, a Vancouver Island wildlife rescue facility. At the time we put our names forward as a potential release site for the otter if she recovered.
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