Your SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is caring for a tiny long-tailed weasel who came to us as an orphan. 

The two and a half week old baby, so young that his eyes are not yet open, was found in the middle of a hiking trail in Ft. Ord. Weasels are born underground and do not venture above ground until their eyes are open and they are active and mobile, around five to six weeks of age. 

The small baby weasel currently weighs 28 grams, about the weight of one single strawberry. 

The orphaned baby weasel was dehydrated, thin, and vocalizing for his mother. He is now being raised in our gentle, professional care. Skilled SPCA wildlife technicians are feeding him formula with a syringe eight times a day and through the night. He is in an incubator snuggling close to a stuffed toy. 

We expect the baby weasel to be in our care indoors for about a month, when he will graduate to an outdoor enclosure to learn to run, hunt, and burrow. He will be with us for at least three months before we can release him back into the wild. 

Your donations make all our rescues possible. 

The SPCA Wildlife Center is the only full-service wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center in Monterey County. Last year we rescued 2,863 injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals, many of them tiny babies.

Right now, we are caring for 40 wild patients, including three baby hummingbirds, seven baby squirrels, four baby rats, and five baby opossums. 

As we move into the Spring and Summer months, we expect those numbers to skyrocket. It’s not unusual for our dedicated team of staff and volunteers to care for over 150 wild patients in a single day. All our rescues are only made possible by your generous, compassionate support. Learn more at www.spcamc.org