LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Raven Ridge Wildlife Center is offering advice to pet owners after a baby chipmunk was brought in to their volunteers.<\/p>\n
Volunteers said they received a call Friday from a local woman after her dog had reportedly brought a baby chipmunk to her.<\/p>\n
The chipmunk was thin and emaciated, and as a result has been receiving formula in critical care, volunteers said.<\/p>\n
Because of the condition of the animal, volunteers said they believe something might have happened to its mother.<\/p>\n
Finding a tiny, eyes-closed baby chipmunk wandering above ground usually indicates that it is orphaned or that its nest has been destroyed, as they do not leave their underground burrow until they are 6 to 8 weeks old.<\/p>\n
They also cautioned cat and dog owners, saying that if a pet has attacked or is seen with a wild animal, that animal needs to be brought to a wildlife rehabilitator, as it may be suffering from puncture wounds or internal damage.<\/p>\n
Volunteers said the chipmunk has been in their care for roughly 24 hours, and has since made great progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Raven Ridge Wildlife Center is offering advice to pet owners after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-846299","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\/846299","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=846299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}