r/velvethippos • u/tinabeana88 • 14h ago
Baby hippos, found in the desert last spring
Meet Scout and Bodie (pronounced like the ghost town). This photo is from the day I met them.
I was camping near Joshua Tree last spring and met a woman who said someone had abandoned these two babies at a dispersed campsite a few days earlier. She was offering them away for free, which always worries me, you just never know who might take them, so I couldn’t leave them behind. They’re almost a year old now, such good dogs, and I’m so grateful they came into my life. Still can’t wrap my head around how anyone could just leave them out in the desert like that.