Why is this veterinary assistant dressed like a fox?

Why did veterinary assistant Melissa Stanley wear a large, furry fox mask to work? Because that’s what was best for her patient, of course. 

Stanley is the executive director at Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia, which posted a viral video this week of a person in a fox mask and latex gloves feeding a baby fox with a syringe.

That person is Stanley, and the hungry little patient is a kit who had been separated from her mother before her eyes had fully opened.

“The last thing I wanted to happen was for me to be in the process of feeding her, and her