Arizona Canal Otter Rescue: It Doesn't Get Much Cuter

Take a very good look at the picture. It really doesn't get much cuter. That is a baby otter. When found four weeks ago, lying at the bottom of a drying canal by Salt River Project workers, the poor thing was dehydrated, hungry, infested with fleas. And anemic.

The workers took it to the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center run by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

Veterinarians nursed it back to health and determined it had been raised by people who then abandoned it. As a result, it could not be released in the wild. (For more information on this and other local stories, subscribe to your local Patch for daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

It was brought to the Out of Africa Wildlife Park.

The otter is doing well in the new home.

Photos Arizona Game and Fish