Feb. 19 (UPI) — Residents of a Scottish town came together to rescue and care for a pair of baby otters found seeking warmth in the engine compartment of a car.<\/p>\n
Skelmorlie resident Karen Watson said residents spotted the otter cubs wandering in various locations on Friday before they wound up in the engine bay of a car.\n<\/p>\n
“I went over and there were quite a few people there at that point. They were trying to coax them out the car but they had hunkered down and were trying to sleep,” Watson told BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n
The group was able to get the otters out of the car, and Watson offered to shelter them for the night.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I put them in the bathtub overnight — they were excellent and generally very quiet apart from a couple of squeaks,” Watson told the Largs & Millport Weekly News. “I barely slept a wink; I didn’t want to put the lights on. They made wee snoring sounds and cuddled into each other.”<\/p>\n
Watson contacted the U.K. Wild Otter Trust and the Scottish SPCA in the morning. The SSPCA sent personnel to collect the otters a few hours later.\n<\/p>\n
Dave Webb, of the U.K. Wild Otter Trust, praised Watson and her neighbors for their efforts.<\/p>\n
“They 100% did all the right things. I know there were comments online saying to leave them, but if the cubs are in a life-threatening situation — which they were — then you have to help them,” Webb said.<\/p>\n
The otters, now named Valentine and Juliet, will be cared for by the SSPCA until they are old enough to survive on their own in the wild.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 19 (UPI) — Residents of a Scottish town came together to rescue and care for a pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":["post-491596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}