I raised two myself about twenty years ago. There is virtually no way not to get attached. They are so intelligent. It literally broke my heart to release them. I went back a couple of weeks later to check to see if they were ok. When they saw me, they ran up to me and crawled into my lap clinging to me and calling to me. It DESTROYED me. I sobbed all the way home. Watching this video brought it all back to me. I loved the job, but it takes a toll on you emotionally to do what is best for the animals.
sure, physically, they may have been fine but their emotional health matters too. It would be wrong to say it doesn't. Some wild animals are fine to go. Some can't wait to go. Before we domesticated dogs and cats, they lived their hard scrabble lives..."wild and free"...surviving. Now, it's considered cruel to abandon them. (I agree) People have pigs as pets. Unheard of-ish 30-ish years ago. Release them, sure, eventually they'll Have to do what they Have to do to survive. Live creatures enjoy comfort. Homeless people aren't "wild and free" and beavers are doing their best with their little hands to actually build homes. This in no way means that I think regular people should start grabbing wildlife. Absolutely not. I can't stand people that try to keep them as pets but a real rehabber that questions whether or not they should release an animal, because they feel the animal would be better off should be able give themselves and the animals some leeway.
I couldn't agree more. In fact, after raising hundreds of animals over fifty years, I have reached the conclusion that "imprinting" is NOT a thing, anymore than they imprint on all of their own species in the wild. They may have imprinted on ME, but they certainly didn't imprint on ALL humans by any stretch of the imagination. So I never bothered to distance myself from them as babies. They needed all the nurturing and comfort I could give them. As far as releasing them, if you want to know if they want to go free. Allow them to come and go as they please. That's what I did with most of mine. Not one ever stayed. Some stayed for a year or two. Some established populations in the area, but none maintained a relationship with me. Wild aimals never CHOOSE to be domesticated. I don't just drive out and throw out the animals willy nilly and say, "live free". I spend many, many hours choosing an ideal place for them to be as safe as possible and to thrive. I'm lucky that that place just happens to be my land many times, depending on the species, and I have many people who believe in what I am doing that offer their lands. Even so, the wilderness is not a safe place. I'm under no illusion that many of them live to a ripe old age. I do know, however, that they certainly lived longer, happier lives than they would have had I not intervened. I REAL rehabber does what is best for the animal, not what makes themselves feel better. FYI, many homeless people DO consider themselves "wild and free". I've worked with our local population for over three decades. We have programs in place to get them housing, food and jobs. More turn me down than accept the help. They will tell you straight up that they prefer to go and do what they choose even if it means not knowing where their next meal is coming from or whether they have a roof over their heads. I've learned not to make assumptions about people or animals and not to force my beliefs on them. Love them where they are and let them choose their own path.@@t181920c
Played a baseball tournament in beaverton many years ago, I'm from Canada and we had to stay at houses of residence there. We were very lucky to get a well off person, he paid for are whole team to go white water raftting it was awesome, never forget it. You actually may or may not know him but he was the designer of MLB logos.
It’s fascinating how generational knowledge and memory are passed to the offspring like Nibi knows how to build dams. Perhaps a parent who is musically inclined will pass that talent to the children. How this is accomplished is a mystery to me.
Beautiful beaver. i never saw a beaver in action. So interesting. Thanks for rescuing her. Hope she will be able to be re-intetgrated back into nature!!!
All I can say is ooh-be-boo-bee-boo. So. Darling. And so smart. Thank you for saving and helping them all as best as you are able. You are a blessing to the blessings.
The only two wild animals I ever raised and kept safe were because they both needed help. One was a fledgling Mockingbird. The other was a male Mallard duck. The Mockingbird was found with ants crawling on it, on the sidewalk. I named him/her "Eatmore," because I was so afraid s/he wouldn't eat enough to survive. This was many decades ago, and I luckily knew a pet shop owner who helped me by selling me a mix of insects and fruit. Stuff I had to reconstitute with a bit of water. Eatmore liked this food and grew up quickly. He (she?) used to perch on my high-backed bed head at night. He could fly out the window anytime he wanted. One day he just left. I would be hanging laundry and he would stop by for a visit, but now had found his own sleeping place. For the longest time I didn't see him. Weeks went by. One beautiful sunshiny day he landed near me out by the laundry lines. Then he swooped back up into one of our fruit trees. He repeated this behavior. Another Mockingbird was sitting in the fruit tree, patiently waiting for him. He was showing me his new mate! They soon flew off together and I never saw him again. The Mallard duck was found on a city street and brought to me in a paper bag. "Malcolm" stayed with us for about 18 months, bonding only slightly with our pet Muscovy duck. One day, as I stood out in our back yard ------ Malcolm just flew away. I like to think that he was waiting for me to be there, so that I would know he was ready to go off and join the other mallard ducks. Fly free, Eatmore and Malcolm.
Beavers live two years with their parents to learn survival skills and dam building, before venturing out on their own. The sound of rustling water means a good place to build their dam. Saw an episode of Duck Dynasty. The old man noticed the flow of water in a stream on his property had slowed, so they suspected it was due to a beaver dam. They located the new dam and all four of them began blasting the water with their guns until they killed the poor beaver, who was probably a two-year old just starting out in life. Held the poor dead animal up by it's tail. That was the only episode of that show I ever watched.
Unselfish love is often painful (oxytocin you lovely meanie) but absolutely necessary for us rehabiltators. I love all critters…until they poop in my shoe! Lol I actually love em more. My heart hurts from the cuteness. I need to hug an otter 🥰
I AM A WILD ANIMAL RESCUER... There is no way she will be safe... now... after growing up with humans... if released into the wild it will be condemning her to an early death. What a beautiful Gift from God NIBI is!
Canadians luvin' both her and you for taking such great care of one of our national symbols. Thanks. (And, yup, watching her cute behind hopping and wiggling away is so heart-catching! 😅)
Beavers can walk along carrying a small pile of sticks in their arms. They can chew through a 15cm tree trunk in 10 minutes... faster if there's a lynx watching.
U can’t release her. She has no idea what to eat in the wild. No idea what plants/branches to store underwater in the spring & summer to last through the winter etc. Beavers stay with their parents for 2-3 YEARS bc they have SO MUCH to learn before going out on their own.
What an experience 😀 I'm jealous, I rescued a squirrel now it hangs out in the trees close by. I go see him every morning 😅 but he isn't as cool as a beaver 🫤
The more I see of humans befriending, rescuing, helping & caring for wild animals, the more I think this is how the world is supposed to be. Imagine if our entire world was focused on being guardians & protectors for other creatures & living things. How special & wonderful a place it would be
I think that's how it used to be for most traditional peoples that lived in close contact with nature. Even if they did hunt, they did it respectfully.
Nibi appears to be an engineering savant! She instinctively builds dams in exterior doorways. Looks like your house will be ready to withstand HURRICANE season.
@@hlcepeda We had a Labrador who would always sleep by the front or back doors. When we went on holiday he would do the same thing. Gotta block those doors indeed!
Other rescue beavers wont do that. You can find videos of them building dams out of toys, pillows, shoes, phones .... this one seems to have amore solid instinct doing so even though she was rescued at a very low age. They commonly build dams where they hear running water though. Around the washing machine, on bathroom door, on walls with pipes in them. Beaver specialists even mislead wild beavers by setting up speakers with water noise, so they will dam the speaker instead of damming the brook and flooding nearby human cellars.
My heart goes out to the rescuer who has to keep emotional distance from adorable, lovable Nibi. That can't be easy! What a special person she is. I like these channels for showing some of the "unsung heroes" among us. And the critters are always so adorable 😍
It really takes a special someone to do this type of thing. Like you said it's a real treat being able to have a glimpse into their lives. Huge love to all the rescuers and fosterers out there 🥰
@@elmalloc yeh i think if she is so tamed she should be a pet. its too risky to let her back out to the wild and unfair to her and the people looking after her. i would keep her for sure for her own safety. its not cheating them of a life its protecting them once they have been tamed .
@Lucy in the Sky lucy stop stalking me for having a different opinion to yours. i don't like your picture and bullying and threatening me. for some people never get much freedom so why should an animal need the evils of the wild, if mostly some of us are locked up and never allowed to have life. i just don't like your name or look.
I raised two myself about twenty years ago. There is virtually no way not to get attached. They are so intelligent. It literally broke my heart to release them. I went back a couple of weeks later to check to see if they were ok. When they saw me, they ran up to me and crawled into my lap clinging to me and calling to me. It DESTROYED me. I sobbed all the way home. Watching this video brought it all back to me. I loved the job, but it takes a toll on you emotionally to do what is best for the animals.
Not literally...
Sorrry. I don't know what you are referencing.@@JeffC-fq1be
sure, physically, they may have been fine but their emotional health matters too. It would be wrong to say it doesn't. Some wild animals are fine to go. Some can't wait to go. Before we domesticated dogs and cats, they lived their hard scrabble lives..."wild and free"...surviving. Now, it's considered cruel to abandon them. (I agree) People have pigs as pets. Unheard of-ish 30-ish years ago. Release them, sure, eventually they'll Have to do what they Have to do to survive. Live creatures enjoy comfort. Homeless people aren't "wild and free" and beavers are doing their best with their little hands to actually build homes.
This in no way means that I think regular people should start grabbing wildlife. Absolutely not. I can't stand people that try to keep them as pets but a real rehabber that questions whether or not they should release an animal, because they feel the animal would be better off should be able give themselves and the animals some leeway.
I couldn't agree more. In fact, after raising hundreds of animals over fifty years, I have reached the conclusion that "imprinting" is NOT a thing, anymore than they imprint on all of their own species in the wild. They may have imprinted on ME, but they certainly didn't imprint on ALL humans by any stretch of the imagination. So I never bothered to distance myself from them as babies. They needed all the nurturing and comfort I could give them. As far as releasing them, if you want to know if they want to go free. Allow them to come and go as they please. That's what I did with most of mine. Not one ever stayed. Some stayed for a year or two. Some established populations in the area, but none maintained a relationship with me. Wild aimals never CHOOSE to be domesticated. I don't just drive out and throw out the animals willy nilly and say, "live free". I spend many, many hours choosing an ideal place for them to be as safe as possible and to thrive. I'm lucky that that place just happens to be my land many times, depending on the species, and I have many people who believe in what I am doing that offer their lands. Even so, the wilderness is not a safe place. I'm under no illusion that many of them live to a ripe old age. I do know, however, that they certainly lived longer, happier lives than they would have had I not intervened. I REAL rehabber does what is best for the animal, not what makes themselves feel better. FYI, many homeless people DO consider themselves "wild and free". I've worked with our local population for over three decades. We have programs in place to get them housing, food and jobs. More turn me down than accept the help. They will tell you straight up that they prefer to go and do what they choose even if it means not knowing where their next meal is coming from or whether they have a roof over their heads. I've learned not to make assumptions about people or animals and not to force my beliefs on them. Love them where they are and let them choose their own path.@@t181920c
@@penopio Wow, you are so lovely and loving and kind! 🥰
🦫So adorable is Nibi, I wish for her longevity & a healthy & happy life 🦫💕
I have to admire Nibi's healthy sense of work-life balance.
😍 You're right! 😄 Just tooo sweet!! haha
@Lucy in the Sky Exactly! There's a time for everything, and she knows her priorities lol
we could all learn from Nibi!
@@rroscop I'd attend her seminars tbh.
I thought the same! She could teach humans a thing or two ;)
She might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!I hope Nibi has a wonderful life,thank you for caring for her.
Nibi is so precious!!! I love her.
I’m from Beaverton, Oregon (the Beaver state) and I’m lucky to have a beaver den about 1/4 mile from my house, they are amazing creatures to watch.
Played a baseball tournament in beaverton many years ago, I'm from Canada and we had to stay at houses of residence there. We were very lucky to get a well off person, he paid for are whole team to go white water raftting it was awesome, never forget it.
You actually may or may not know him but he was the designer of MLB logos.
You All are very very special people, thank you ❤😊
all I can think when I see her building dams across door is angry toddler trying to block the door to their room lol too cute.
She's very adorable 😍. And so industrious!
You are doing amazing work. Beavers are extraordinary creatures
How beautiful is she, makes me want one!!! Thank you for these videos you share with us it bring joy to my heart!!!
Thanks for watching!
It’s fascinating how generational knowledge and memory are passed to the offspring like Nibi knows how to build dams. Perhaps a parent who is musically inclined will pass that talent to the children. How this is accomplished is a mystery to me.
I believe this is instrumental in the development of personalities and traits to include mental disorders.
Omg..beyond cute!!!
Nini is so precious. Thank you for giving her a chance to live well.
She’s adorable! Thank you for educating me/us!
Beautiful beaver. i never saw a beaver in action. So interesting. Thanks for rescuing her. Hope she will be able to be re-intetgrated back into nature!!!
Thats is propably the sweetest story i watched in youtube today thank you so much...
All I can say is ooh-be-boo-bee-boo. So. Darling. And so smart. Thank you for saving and helping them all as best as you are able. You are a blessing to the blessings.
adorable and lovable,i want to hug & love it
I couldn't keep emotional distance. That baby beaver is just mega cute.
I would like to see an update when she is released back to nature.
Monstrous cuteness, is beaver.
The only two wild animals I ever raised and kept safe were because they both needed help. One was a fledgling Mockingbird. The other was a male Mallard duck. The Mockingbird was found with ants crawling on it, on the sidewalk. I named him/her "Eatmore," because I was so afraid s/he wouldn't eat enough to survive. This was many decades ago, and I luckily knew a pet shop owner who helped me by selling me a mix of insects and fruit. Stuff I had to reconstitute with a bit of water. Eatmore liked this food and grew up quickly. He (she?) used to perch on my high-backed bed head at night. He could fly out the window anytime he wanted. One day he just left. I would be hanging laundry and he would stop by for a visit, but now had found his own sleeping place. For the longest time I didn't see him. Weeks went by. One beautiful sunshiny day he landed near me out by the laundry lines. Then he swooped back up into one of our fruit trees. He repeated this behavior. Another Mockingbird was sitting in the fruit tree, patiently waiting for him. He was showing me his new mate! They soon flew off together and I never saw him again. The Mallard duck was found on a city street and brought to me in a paper bag. "Malcolm" stayed with us for about 18 months, bonding only slightly with our pet Muscovy duck. One day, as I stood out in our back yard ------ Malcolm just flew away. I like to think that he was waiting for me to be there, so that I would know he was ready to go off and join the other mallard ducks. Fly free, Eatmore and Malcolm.
She's so cute! It's amazing how she just knows how to build a dam!!!!
This is beautiful. Thank you for what you do.
What a cutie. Pretty adorable all around but especially when she hops.
lovely woman
thnks so so much for all yous do
Wow, imagine that. She wasn't 'trained' to do that, she just DOES it. ..... I wonder if any other animals are like that.
Nibi is amazing, so cute!!! Yes it is a wonder of nature that she knows how to build dams. Nature's way!!!
I hope you keep her, how will she find food in the wild? So adorable!
Beavers have engineering degree in their DNA. Amazing animal designed to build an ecosystem for thousands of wild animals.
Just keep her! Shes adorable and loves you! ❤
Beavers live two years with their parents to learn survival skills and dam building, before venturing out on their own. The sound of rustling water means a good place to build their dam. Saw an episode of Duck Dynasty. The old man noticed the flow of water in a stream on his property had slowed, so they suspected it was due to a beaver dam. They located the new dam and all four of them began blasting the water with their guns until they killed the poor beaver, who was probably a two-year old just starting out in life. Held the poor dead animal up by it's tail. That was the only episode of that show I ever watched.
GOD BLESS YOU
Sooo cute!
Sweet lil schmoo! Thank you for taking up the slack and filling this niche!!! I envy you getting to do this work!
Nibi is absolutely perfect. How cute is this?!
Unselfish love is often painful (oxytocin you lovely meanie) but absolutely necessary for us rehabiltators.
I love all critters…until they poop in my shoe! Lol I actually love em more. My heart hurts from the cuteness. I need to hug an otter 🥰
I AM A WILD ANIMAL RESCUER... There is no way she will be safe... now... after growing up with humans... if released into the wild it will be condemning her to an early death.
What a beautiful Gift from God NIBI is!
I looked up "Nibi":
Nibi means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe).
SOOOO STINKIN CUTE!!!
Canadians luvin' both her and you for taking such great care of one of our national symbols. Thanks.
(And, yup, watching her cute behind hopping and wiggling away is so heart-catching! 😅)
That beaver is more active than my workmates. 🤣
They are born knowing what dam well can make a dam.
Even more impressive when factoring poor eyesight of beavers.
Beavers can walk along carrying a small pile of sticks in their arms. They can chew through a 15cm tree trunk in 10 minutes... faster if there's a lynx watching.
Loved her in Caddyshack!
Clearly the young Einstein of the beaver civilization.
Bless your hearts ❤
Thank you for all your do for the animals!
I want to hug her.
Notice how Nibi always builds her dam in front of a pathway, such as a doorway.
Dude, she's so cute.
just love the animals, their instincts will teach them about 'bad humans.
Clever little girl ❤
Jane's a cool lady. Loving but doesn't let that love interfere with her practicality about the animals' future survival.
I am so glad that beavers are back in Germany at the Elbe river.
Nibi is diva!!! 💕🇬🇧
Nibi looks like the gopher in Caddyshack.😊
Beavers. Take shopping carts , from grocery stores ,
Jesus, I needed this today. Thanks!
I had no idea baby beavers were so adorable! 😍😍
Adorable!!💜
U can’t release her. She has no idea what to eat in the wild. No idea what plants/branches to store underwater in the spring & summer to last through the winter etc. Beavers stay with their parents for 2-3 YEARS bc they have SO MUCH to learn before going out on their own.
So cool and specialized
Stick is work. Ball is play. We do not intermingle such importance.
welp - i officially love beavers now.
Separeteing play and work sruff?
This beaver has a more balanced life than me.
Awww - so cute! :)
This is the way God's unconditional love manifests itself. May God bless you in return.
All Nibi's activities must have gotten some dust in my eyes.
It's too late. Nibi already trusts people
He didn't recognize my...my...MY UVULA!
.
She’s binkying like a bunny 😭😭😭
What an experience 😀 I'm jealous, I rescued a squirrel now it hangs out in the trees close by. I go see him every morning 😅 but he isn't as cool as a beaver 🫤
Funny how she builds by doors. Maybe she doesn't want people leaving her?❤
Those aren't dams, they're their forts!
Hermoso bello ❤️💖💖
As am Aussie I' can't believe how this dam building must be in their dna
IN MY VIEW
Nibi was a Cutie when she was little and growing up into a Sweetie. I don't envy you when she has to go.
Very adorable!
What a bombshell. I have beaver issues, where can I find this woman?
🥰🤗 Nibi!
I love her so much ! Cutest ever ! Big baby beaver feets !! Good girl
0:55 she
even talks!! 😨😨😨😨😨
Does she always/onl build dams in doorways? Even when then door is closed I noticed. That is amazing if she does!
not such a bad life in an enclosure surely.... I mean... beaver hotel
I am a beaver lover, and I love kissing cute hairy beavers.
Beavers gotta beave 🤷🏻♀️
Bring her to meeeeeee ❤❤❤
The more I see of humans befriending, rescuing, helping & caring for wild animals, the more I think this is how the world is supposed to be. Imagine if our entire world was focused on being guardians & protectors for other creatures & living things. How special & wonderful a place it would be
Agreed...seems like a lot of humans would rather kill and destroy.
I think that's how it used to be for most traditional peoples that lived in close contact with nature. Even if they did hunt, they did it respectfully.
@@beatrizbecker3728So Europeans. Kind of like, the exact same race who are the ones taking care of animals to this day, unlike the rest of the world.
This video gives me hope for humanity especially when I think that human are the most cruel and destructive creatures on earth
What a beautiful comment.🌺💖🌺
Nibi appears to be an engineering savant! She instinctively builds dams in exterior doorways. Looks like your house will be ready to withstand HURRICANE season.
😂❤❤
HAHAHAHAJAHAHA
Perhaps she's getting ready for the zombies. _"Gotta block these doors... NOW!!"_
@@hlcepeda We had a Labrador who would always sleep by the front or back doors. When we went on holiday he would do the same thing. Gotta block those doors indeed!
🤣 🤣 🤣
Nibi has stick arranging in her DNA. So precious that she separates her toys from sticks. So cute.
MUST... PUT... STICK... ooh a toy i put that here now... MUST... PUT... STICK...
@@parkman29 That's why we dont let boys and girls sleep in the same room
Other rescue beavers wont do that. You can find videos of them building dams out of toys, pillows, shoes, phones .... this one seems to have amore solid instinct doing so even though she was rescued at a very low age.
They commonly build dams where they hear running water though.
Around the washing machine, on bathroom door, on walls with pipes in them.
Beaver specialists even mislead wild beavers by setting up speakers with water noise, so they will dam the speaker instead of damming the brook and flooding nearby human cellars.
Beaver art. if some human did it badly, it would be worth millions. Nibi does it, like a pro and it has no value?
It's called Inner Intelligence. Unfortunately, most humans don't have it (also known as instinct or common sense)
My heart goes out to the rescuer who has to keep emotional distance from adorable, lovable Nibi. That can't be easy! What a special person she is. I like these channels for showing some of the "unsung heroes" among us. And the critters are always so adorable 😍
Yes!
It really takes a special someone to do this type of thing. Like you said it's a real treat being able to have a glimpse into their lives. Huge love to all the rescuers and fosterers out there 🥰
Was just thinking that as well. She's a badass, because there's just no way I'd be able to do that. Thankfully there's people like her on this planet.
Among us.
..
Nibi arranging the sticks made me think that, despite the fact that she's been raised by a human, her beaver instinct is strrroooong
well duh
Where’d you get a wild idea like that from a specific spot in the video that played twice?
Instincts are part of the brain's base development. They don't go away.
Yep. It's hard wired into her.
Gestalt response it’s called. Other animals have if too for various things.
Now I get the phrase: Busy as a beaver 😊 Adorable animal, thanks for rescuing her. ❤❤
she wasn’t even socialized around other beavers and she knows what beavers do. amazing
Do you know what the word 'instinct' means?
It's like how birds make nests or spiders make webs. They don't learn, they're just born capable of doing it. That's the power of nature my friend.
It's in their genes!!
@@solomonmendonca3223 It doesn't mean programed genes...
@@solomonmendonca3223 Plenty of animals need to be taught necessary things. Don't denigrate.
That little hop wiggle is like bunny binkies! Which they also do when they are happy! So cute!
Yup
Chinchilla too! Popcorning!
Bunny binkies... Never heard of that.. Most adorable phrase in the English lexicon.
Or popcorning guinea pigs.
Like watching a boxer get the zoomies
She’s so cute and sweet it makes you want one! But, they belong in their own habitats. I just love her ❤
She belongs with me
@@elmalloc yeh i think if she is so tamed she should be a pet. its too risky to let her back out to the wild and unfair to her and the people looking after her. i would keep her for sure for her own safety. its not cheating them of a life its protecting them once they have been tamed .
@Lucy in the Sky i don't agree with you.
@Lucy in the Sky lucy stop stalking me for having a different opinion to yours. i don't like your picture and bullying and threatening me. for some people never get much freedom so why should an animal need the evils of the wild, if mostly some of us are locked up and never allowed to have life. i just don't like your name or look.
this has to be a robot attacking me. for fun drama for some freak. just stop stalking and attacking.
One of the most important animals to the worlds ecosystems. I never realized how cute they were as babies.
Beavers don’t inhabit the whole world.