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.