IF ever there was a little girl destined to become a veterinarian, Aimee Short would be it.
Whether she’s hand-rearing little lambs on her family’s farm, Wheatlands, or raising orphaned birds, a love for animals and a passion for rescuing them just seems to flow through her veins.
Aimee, a Grade 5 learner at Union High School, recently was spotted with her newest patient – a baby swallow – at the school’s annual interhouse athletics day.
Aimee found the little orphaned baby swallow in need of rescuing a little more than four weeks ago and has been hand-rearing it ever since.
Aimee’s round-the-clock care ensured that the little bird she found, which sported only a few tufts of down at the time, has become a healthy little fledgling.
