When a Fairfax resident turned on the engine of his car and saw every warning light come on, that was his first problem. The second was figuring out what to do with the baby squirrels curled up inside a nest in the engine bay.
“He called Animal Services for help,” Thomas Ingle, chief field services officer and deputy director of Fairfax County Animal Services, told FFXnow. “And when the animal services officer gets there, she realizes that there are babies in there and the mom is nowhere to be found.”
That call to Animal Services in March was emblematic of an issue that recurs every spring: As the weather warms up, more people encounter wildlife — and they don’t always know what to do when they see a baby apparently left on its own…