When it comes to baby animals, it takes a village. And sometimes that village includes a tattoo and piercing parlor. Help often comes from the most unlikely of sources.

Such was the case for a maternal opossum who set up shop in a tree behind the store. She got herself wedged and stuck, and in the process of being helped, she inadvertently dropped a few of her baby opossums along the way.

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Vishnu Bunny Tattoo and Piercing posted photos of it all, alongside a brief explanation of what went down. On their Instagram page, they share, “A momma opossum made her way to a deep window well behind the shop. Animal control helped her out, but in the process, some babies fell from her pouch. We then learned that the mommas don’t know that they dropped babies and therefore they don’t come back for them.”

But they had a plan to help. “We contacted Deanna at........

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