It is finally Friday on what has been one helluva week, so I’m sure the thing we all need right now is cute baby beaver pictures – by which I mean baby beaver pictures – because they are all dam cute. It’s not like some photos ended up in a pile on the cutting room floor with directors saying, well your nose was just tooo round, and your fur just didn’t look squeezable enough.

Bored Panda must have had a hard week too because they aired this post last with an outstanding collection, including one that happened quite close to home literally last week from our own Lindsay museum that actually did the right thing and sent a baby back to the lodge to be with his family!

30 Of The Cutest Beaver Pics The Internet Has To Offer

The North American beavers are nature’s hard-working architects. They have an innate ability to build structures that can rival even some ambitious human projects. These impressive skilled creatures also ended up becoming the main characters of a video game (it’s called Timberborn, if you want to look for it).

But this is not enough to explain what makes beavers so darn charming! With their big eyes and adorable teething, beavers are one of the cutest animals you could find out there. Known for building dams and lodges in rivers and lakes, they’re one of the six symbols of Canada. The trade of beaver fur used to be so profitable to the country that Canadians felt compelled to pay tribute to this buck-toothed animal. Canadians are not the only ones so obsessed with cute beavers. We are too, and that’s why we put together a collection of beaver pics that will build up your love for them, picture after picture!

Well I hate to argue with a known scholar like Bored Panda but in fact beavers of all ages have tiny beady eyes and that’s not what makes them so cute. See for yourself.

Luckily this little one had a saviour on a paddle board! When it was pulled from behind the rocks it had already been crying for three days, and had likely ventured out of the lodge after a few days of no parents returning. After almost a week alone, this baby was lucky to get into our centre. Beaver kits are born precocial with a fluffy coat and their eyes open. With both parents tending to the babies, they are never left alone and need constant attention in the unfortunate event they are alone without a family. This little one required extensive stabilization with rehydration every few hours, even through the night by our dedicated volunteers. Because we partner with other amazing wildlife centres across the province, we were able to get this little beaver into the best possible place it could grow up, (next to with its mom and dad of course). Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary has the largest beaver rehabilitation facilities in Canada, and another orphaned baby that needed a friend.
After two years in care they will be old enough to be released into vacant ponds to claim, and hopefully start little beaver families of their own. Beavers are essential to our aquatic ecosystems—they are wildlife engineers and the ponds they make create habitat for hundreds of other species. We thank Tracy and all our finders for caring for Ontarios wildlife, helping us keep Kawartha wild!

Obviously the parents weren’t returning because they were KILLED not because they went on a gambling trip over state lines. Sheesh when I think of how many adorable orphan beavers we make EVERY single year it gives this article a whole new vibe.