While the writers strike ran its course, last year's guilty TV pleasure - Ugly Betty - has been conspicuously missing. Lucky for me a high definition channel called Equator HD offers entertainment in the form on my new fave show: Wildlife Nannies. As the name would indicate, it does feature wildlife caretakers. And yes, the baby animals under their care. The surrogate caretakers take on the parental responsibilities when the offspring is abandoned, when the parent rejects offspring or when a parent dies.
Claudia feeds sardines to baby killer whale Skyla and trains her using enthusiastic hand signals and vocal encouragement. Nanny Peter - a big cat surrogate doesn't let the fact that he looks like Captain Von Trapp in drag prevent his duties to Alvin, a lion cub.
John, Wombat nanny and friend to Tasmanian Devils shares a few secrets from down under in the care and feeding of the pudgy rodent-like creature. For instance to soothe a raging wombat simply blow on it's nose and it will doze off faster than you can say Waltzing Matilda.
Scoff all you want, but there's nothing like a few episodes of Wildlife Nannies to take the edge off the winter day and woo me into a state of goodwill, if not somnolence.
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