i watched 15 baby newborn possums slowly die and there was nothing i could do about.
ther night before there mother got into my chinchilla cage and killed my last and oldest chinchilla of 12 years, my dad beat and killed her with a metal baseball bat and beat her out of anger even when she was well beyond dead.
come the next morning, ( he left her body in the open that night) 15 of her babys are out of the pouch covered in moms ****!, half an hour later as i stuggle for a way to help them, my dads throws them in a plastic bag and into the garage while they are still alive, i went off on him. and told him why he coulod call a wildlife rescue to care for them, he said he would be fined if they found out he killed the mother.
thinking back i should have turned his ass in! and they babys would probably still be alive today.
My mother on a positive note, did foster 3 baby finches(pretty thats what they where) when we found them abandoned by the mother in a nest right in our front yard.