The only thing I understand less than people’s fascination with orphaned beaver kits in rehab is their fascination for stories about beavers being hurled from moving vehicles at great heights. But I am an outlier and hardly a representative sample.

So if you’re a beaver rehab junkie here’s your fix.

Okanagan beavers on wildlife rehab livestream: Dam entertain

Two orphaned baby beavers are growing up on-screen for all to see, thanks to a 24/7 livestream webcam at the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Summerland. 

The baby beavers, which are called kits, are named Tiny Tom and Baby Nelson.

Both Tom and Nelson were found without a family and were brought to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. While the kits are unrelated, they have become bonded while living together at the centre. 

The kits will live at the rehab society in Summerland until they are two years old, when they will be released into the wild. 

“To monitor how our patients are doing without disturbing them, we have installed web-cameras in some of our enclosures at Interior Wildlife’s Summerland rehabilitation facility,” said Eva Hartmann, founder of the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society. 

Since September, the centre has been posting the livestream of the kits to YouTube and on the Interior Wildlife Website. 

Since the facility is not open to the public, the new “Beaver Cam” allows people to stay up to date on how Tiny Tom and Baby Nelson are doing. 

There is grooming and scratching at the moment and I suspect sleeping soon. I would  much rather see a beaver in the wild than two orphans whose parents were killed by trappers but hey, that’s just me.