For example, we had a fox pup turned in to us at the Center by a family that had kept it in capitivity for a while. Due do an inadequately nutritional diet, the fox became blind. A wild baby animal cannot eat the same foods you or your pet eat. It must have special foods. Proper nutrition is essential for normal development and any deficiencies may cost the animal its life.
Some animals have to be taught how to find their own food.
Others must be socialized with their own kind at the right age to learn survival skills in the wild. Raising orphaned wild babies is a job for professional rehabilitators who have the training and skills necessary to provide the proper conditions for meeting the orphans' needs. Wild Animals need to be with their own Kind A baby wild animal raised to be friendly to people and pets may not know what kind of creature it is, or how to behave with others of its own kind. A wild baby animal raised by people may be cute but it will grow up to be a wild adult, and may become aggressive and dangerous in captivity. It will not know how to take care of itself when released in the wild and it will not know how to interact with members of its own species.