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Kids Save Baby Beluga Whale Who Washed Up On Shore

7/6/2016

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An orphaned baby beluga whale found on the shore of the St. Lawrence River earlier this week is facing an uncertain future, despite the best efforts of the humans that stepped in to help it.

A family vacationing in Rivière-du-Loup, Que., came across the whale Thursday afternoon around 1 p.m. The tide was low, so the whale was almost completely out of the water.
The family started dousing it with water and used a sheet to protect it from the sun.

"We dug a hole so that water would accumulate and its skin would hydrate," said 15-year-old Nicholas Milliard, who came across the beluga with his two younger brothers. 

"Every five minutes we got it a bucket of water. The water level was dropping, and it was becoming more and more difficult to get water."

The Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals(GREMM), based in Tadoussac, was called in and had the whale looked over via Facetime by a Vancouver-based veterinarian. It was determined the whale was female and probably only hours old; its umbilical cord was still attached to its body.

Josiane Cabana, spokesperson for GREMM, said what happened to the mother is a mystery. Did she die during birth, was she killed by a predator, or was it something else? All those questions may go unanswered.

​Milliard and his brothers are hopeful they averted at least one beluga similar misfortune. 
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"We are proud," he said. "We told ourselves we just saved a life, and a rare one at that."

Source: www.cbc.ca / Image: GREMM

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Adoptable Pet of the Week: Baby

7/6/2016

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​Sweet Baby was surrendered to the rescue when she was a little too much puppy for the family who took her in. She is a shy, quiet tiny girl but warms up and LOVES to be cuddled. She’s doing well with the other small dogs in her foster home & is learning to use a doggy door but still needs to go out w/ her foster parents regularly – she is learning housebreaking. She is vaccinated, microchipped & spayed. She was originally a foster through HALO but their process for “returns” are that the dog has to go back to the county shelter and it was agreed by all parties that it would be best to keep her with our rescue in stead.
A Peaceful Farewell provides compassionate at home pet euthanasia to fellow pet owners in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, and most of the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
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