This is a time when lots of wildlife babies are being born and many of them are unnecessarily picked up by well-meaning people who think they are making rescues.
Beth Young has some advice for these folks: “In most cases, leave the babies alone — their mothers will take care of them.”
An experienced wildlife rehabilitator, Young has about 15 animals under her care at her Wimberley home. These include a mother raccoon and her baby, three possums, two squirrels and one skunk, which was hit by a car.
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