The news lately is completely depressing me, so I'll close the week with this adorable photo I took while working at the Wildlife Rehab. My coworker is feeding one of the baby squirrels, just one of the many fun tasks we get to take part in.

Fun Tidbits about animals and working with wildlife:

Fawns (baby deer) get very excited when you come out to feed them. They leap up on to you like a large dog, pawing to get to their bottle. I have a nice little cloven shaped scratch on my leg to prove their enthusiasm.

Mealworms still crawl around after they are torn in half. Also, a mealworm's guts turn your fingernails black, so after a day of tearing apart mealworms for baby birds to eat I have the hands of a mechanic for about a week. Doesn't matter how much you scrub your hands.

If you feed a squirrel his milk too fast, then the milk will come out his nose. It's not good to do that too often.

Baby sparrows are aggressive eaters and are fast enough to steal another bird's food before it has time to eat it. They are tiny birds, but suck down large clumps of food easily.

Bird poop comes out encased in neat little sacs, but if the sac is popped, then you have a mess. Baby birds stick their butts up and over the edge of the nest when they poop, thus, keeping their nest clean. They also poop a few minutes right after they eat.

Baby squirrels like to poop while they are drinking their milk.

Opossums are marsupials (the only marsupials in North America) that carry their young in pouches on their belly.

Opossums open their mouth and bare their teeth to frighten off people or animals that bother them, but they're really just cute little wussies who are more bark than bite.

Ducks can bite, but it doesn't hurt one bit!

Geese are really heavy to hold for any extended period of time.

Horses flirt with each other. Horses also dislike each other sometimes just like people do.