Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to be as cute as orphanly possible so that we can raise enough money to keep you around. Yes, it’s sad that your mother and father died. And that beavers in general have such human-fraught lives every day. And it’s even sad that wildlife groups have to pretend that beaver ‘orphans’ are natural and happen by chance. It’s all sad.

Work that.

It’s obviously THAT TIME AGAIN when news stations implore for help with raising baby beavers who were mysteriously ‘orphaned’ by their parents. (Gosh, beaver parents must be irresponsible, because they seem to ‘capriciously abandon’ kits a lot.) I’m sure the responsible media wouldn’t mention if parents were ruthlessly and indifferently killed every time someone’s subdivision or highway was inconvenienced, right?

Here’s a slightly more cheery seasonal sighting. This young disperser thinks that walking on the shore would be easier than swimming the rapids. Nice footage of two of Cheryl’s very favorite animals.