Good Bye Otterley Baby,,,by Weeducation

Weeducation 17 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 12:44 PM

Some of you guys may already know that I am a Canadian Ranger and as such we patrol the great Canadian wilderness to enforce wildlife and fishing rules and policies.

But sometimes we as individual take on task we are not paid for. I did just that this past summer when I attempted to rescue a baby otter I found.


The poor thing needed bottle feeding and tons of general attention. I was very lucky since she took to me very fast and was following pretty much everywhere I went although vehicles in general were an amazing challenge to say the least.

However with the help of my fellow Rangers she became the mascot of our outpost camp for the summer. She was quite the hit with the many tourist that we deal with on daily basis and many were amazed how friendly she was.


Then came time for me to come home to my wife and 6 pets(3 dogs 2 cats 1 snake) which quickly became a total nightmare and a real free for all sometimes looking like it might degenerate into a UFC event.


Luckily I never intended on keeping Otterley and have been training her to provide for herself in the wild over the last few weeks and today was this unfortunate day that I finally released her back to Algonquin Park animal preserve.


Sitting here with finally peace and quiet I do sorely miss her so I thought this forum would be a good place for my homage to Otterley .....sniff....sniff....

robmurphy4 683 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 1:52 PM

What a selfless act of great proportions. You put your own needs second to an animal that needed you. True reflection on what a Canadian Ranger should be. Well done.
 
Rob

JimQ916 2,076 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 2:03 PM

What Rob said.....AWESOME.....above and beyond!!!!

pdb1 8,280 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 3:46 PM

 That is Otterley Awesome Sam . And who knew ? I didn't know we had an esteemed Canadian Ranger amongst us . Very touching and lovable story . Certainly a summer you will never forget . Thank you for sharing that with us . And I could not think of a better forum in which to share it .
  Paul

MGroza 93 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 4:22 PM

Proud 2 be CANADIAN!!!

Bertasion 242 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 5:03 PM

What a great experience and story, Sam.  Thanks for sharing it.  Brian

harry4364 325 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 5:34 PM

great story,and thank you for helping critters.

kmamjmemedmmm 350 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 6:44 PM

Very nice....made my day better.
 
Kevin

clucktrentsuperd 203 Posts

Tue, Sep 29 2015 8:41 PM

gr8 story bubba!   to my neighbor to east..... trent.......

Weeducation 17 Posts

Wed, Sep 30 2015 11:24 AM

Thank you for all the replies....did not expect that at all!
Proudly Canadian!

pdb1 8,280 Posts

Wed, Sep 30 2015 4:21 PM

  You can also see this topic at :
GOOD BYE OTTERLEY BABY
  In the new forum :
RANDOM SELFLESS ACTS OF KINDNESS

pdb1 8,280 Posts

Wed, Sep 30 2015 8:47 PM

  Regarding your comment Sam . " Not Golf Related sorry ! 
  Please everyone should know that this is our forum , as is the website . These forums are here for us to use in any way we feel the need . To be ourselves and to represent what we want to share about anything that seems relevant to us . Be it golf , or information , questions , statements , complaints , tutorials , heads ups , shout outs anything at all . Without apologies or permission or regret . I'm just sayin that is the way I think these forums should be used .

Weeducation 17 Posts

Thu, Oct 1 2015 12:22 AM

Duly noted Paul and thanks! This CC is cooking with gas!!....lol

pdb1 8,280 Posts

Thu, Oct 1 2015 4:21 AM

  I wondered what that smell was 




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