A den of baby coyotes was rescued after their mother went missing, but now their new caretakers are worried they may not be able to keep them. The Everglades Outpost Wildlife Rescue is hoping to raise enough funds to rehab and release the pups.
Meet Axle and Beckett: the baby coyotes are bouncing around with energy now, but they were found in pretty bad shape a few days ago.
"The pups were just very weak, they hadn't been fed. They were very skinny and you could just tell their condition," said Jeffrey Rivera with the Everglades Outpost Wildlife Rescue.
The den of coyotes was found abandoned near the Homestead Airport. Their mother is either missing or dead.
"They have no mother whatsoever," Rivera said.
Seeing the dire situation, the rescue group stepped in to help the furry creatures.
"We decided to take them in and start caring for them because if not, they would have just died," Rivera explained.
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The caretakers are hoping they can rehab and then release the coyote pups into the wild.
"We dug them out from the barrel and just started hand feeding them. Just kind of dropping them into the cage with less human contact to see if we can rehab and release them," Rivera said.
The nonprofit rescue facility cares for all sorts of animals that have been injured or abandoned, but they need some assistance building a large, specialized enclosure for the coyotes.
"We're trying to get the funding to make a rehab enclosure. The rehab enclosure would be about 10-feet-tall because they're great climbers and the materials alone are about $8,000," Rivera explained.
They hope they'll be able to raise enough money from donations to care for the coyotes and eventually release them.
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