Meet Coco the woodchuck, who was found lying in a family’s yard, and seemed to be dead
“While Coco was in the 90-degree heat… birds had started to come down and peck at her head”
She spent 3 days paralyzed and unable to move
The people who found her called a local wildlife rehabber, Molly Ryan, who started treating her
The woman was doing everything to nurture the animal back to health
Ryan would get up twice at night to check on Coco, and ended up putting her in bed
“She would snuggle up right by me and make sure part of her body was touching me all night”
Just as the woman started to think about releasing Coco back into the wild…
“I noticed she held her eyes at half-mast or sometimes not open at all”
Ryan took her to the vet, and he confirmed: the animal was blind
Just like this, Coco became a permanent member of Ryans’ family
“There is nothing that makes getting out of bed harder than…”
“Having to leave a gently snoring round fluffball of snuggling woodchuck”
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