It has been a great week folks. A few days ago I saw an
appeal from one of my Blogger/Facebook friend Wong Ee Lynn asking whether anyone is
willing to foster a baby squirrel that had fallen from a tree and still not
stable. The tree was high thus it was not possible to put it back up there. Besides
it is still small and weak. As usual with Wong Ee Lynn, one of the Good
Samaritan with the SPCA she seeks for help. I saw that FB note and call her and
told her if there are no taker I am willing to take care of it.
After a while
she call back and say that so far no other taker and that she would come
over to my house and hand over that little baby squirrel for us to foster. Well
that night after eight she came with a friend and handed that little baby
squirrel to me. Lin our daughter was around and as usual Lin who love animals
took care of it. Asmah was happy too and asks me to go and get a cage from our
eldest daughter's house who kept baby rabbits whenever their pet rabbits have
baby. And now that all her rabbits have grown up, the cage had been clean and
kept in the store. I then drove to her house to take the cage. On hearing about
this little fella, the fallen little baby squirrel all the three grand kid got
excited and want to come over to the house and see it. These kids all love
animals and they have many rabbits as their pets. I then took the cage and two
of the kids home and they were delighted to see that little squirrel. Later the
other grand kid came with her parents and soon the atmosphere of our home
became hilarious. Everyone was trying to play with it and it look like little
Jatoq is enjoying been pampered. They then decided that we should give it a new
name and suggested that it should be call Jatoh as in fall. So we decided that
it name would be that, Jatoh. I then took to giving it more of an animal like
name thus I spell that word Jatoh to Jatoq and then told the world on FB that
the name of that little baby squirrel is now Jatoq. Well everyone love that
name including Wong Ee Lynn.
Well folks it looks like this little fella is
going to be an addition to the family until it is big enough to go its own way,
back to nature. Meanwhile we have an extra job to take care of it. It would not
be easy but surely it would be fun, a joy to the family as seen in the faces of
our grand kids. With this addition came responsibility and Lin our daughter
took to feeding it since she love animals. And of course Asmah and I would help as well. It look like it going to be an added ritual in our home,
feeding and then taking it to the garden in front of the patio so that it would
get use to nature, it natural habitat.
Life is like that, the unexpected
happens as we move on our journey of life. Have a nice day.
With added responsiblity comes the blessing.. Your house will be blessed with your children and grands trying to befiend jatoq not to forget the neighbours and family friends.. Teared to know that your whole family love to berbakti to jatoq..
ReplyDeleteWan Sharif, thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting.
ReplyDeleteWell we thought that we could help this little creature to grow into an adult and then it would released back to nature, it natural habitat.
In the meantime we would have to give some extra time to take care of it. And we are happy to do just that.
Have a nice day.