{"id":571755,"date":"2026-04-08T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:27:16","slug":"baby-beaver-found-in-austin-after-storms-taken-to-wildlife-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571755\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby beaver found in Austin after storms, taken to wildlife rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Austin Wildlife Rescue put it best: \u201cHot dam \u2026 we got a baby beaver<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rescue<\/a> revealed its new \u201cbranch manager in the making\u201d last Friday after Austin Animal Services officers responded to reports of a lone beaver kit strolling along a sidewalk. When the officers’ search for its family came up short, they took the baby\u00a0Buc-ee and brought it to Austin Wildlife Rescue.<\/p>\n

\u201cA baby beaver is a true rarity for us, so this fuzzball is an extra special surprise this week,\u201d the rescue said.<\/p>\n

The rescue said the beaver, a girl, arrived weak and cold. Staff believe it may have been washed from its den during recent rainstorms.<\/p>\n

After some initial \u201cbeaver tantrums,\u201d staff members were able to bottle-feed the animal.\u00a0Jules Maron, The rescue’s executive director, said the beaver initially struggled to learn how to drink from a bottle and spent about a day resisting feedings but has since been \u201cchugging it down like there\u2019s no tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I have to say this is the most adorable baby animal I’ve ever seen in my life.\u00a0And I’ve seen a lot of baby animals,”\u00a0Maron said. “She’s absolutely precious. “<\/p>\n

The rescue now plans to transfer the young beaver to another rehabilitation facility in North Texas that has a large water feature and is better set up for long-term beaver care,\u00a0Maron said. She said the goal is to place the animal where it can develop the skills it will need in the wild, including eventually practicing dam-building.<\/p>\n

Because beavers stay closely tied to their family units for years, rehabilitation is a long process. Maron said young beavers typically need about two to three years before they are ready for release, when they naturally begin leaving the family den to find territory of their own. At that point, the goal is to release them near a large body of water \u2014 ideally a river with tributaries \u2014 so they have room to spread out, establish a colony and use the dam-building skills they developed in care.<\/p>\n

Maron also said beaver rehabilitation is unusual because, unlike many other wild animals, young beavers need close care from just one or two people so they can feel secure without becoming too used to humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeavers are basically the opposite of everything you can think of from a rehabilitation standpoint,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Maron also expressed\u00a0gratitude for the community members who called in after spotting the animal, helping get the beaver to rescuers quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin Wildlife Rescue put it best: \u201cHot dam \u2026 we got a baby beaver.\u201d The rescue revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-571755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}