Judy Avey-Arroyo holds an orphaned sloth.


Keeping Buttercup Avey-Arroyo knew that it was no longer safe


for Buttercup to be on her own in the wild. With her mother gone, there was no one to teach the sloth how to survive. Avey-Arroyo, her husband, and her children would have to become Buttercup’s new family. So far, the family had made some good


guesses on what to do with a baby sloth. Yet to help Buttercup, the family needed to know more about sloths.


Learning About Sloths So the family began researching sloths. T ey


checked out every book they could find in their library about sloths. T ere wasn’t much. Avey-Arroyo called the local zoo. Surely the


zookeepers there would know how to care for sloths. Yet the zookeepers said they didn’t know much about sloths. “Good luck,” they told her. A nearby animal rescue center gave her the


same answer. It seemed that the family was on its own.


A baby orphan reaches up. It wants to be held.


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