Leave it to beaver to make a fun family day of tubing down the Cowichan River on Aug. 14 even more exciting.

As Connor Belanger, 16, of Victoria was making his way down the river, he heard some soft squeaks coming from something struggling in the water that then tried to get onto his tube. It was a little baby beaver.

Connor's mother Liz said she first heard the kit crying but was unsure what it was and didn't see anything, then her son noticed the little beaver kit struggling in the rapids and he reached out and it clambered up and cuddled right into his arms.

"Connor floated the rest of the way down to Little Beach [a popular tubing pullout spot] while keeping it warm in his arms and then wrapped the kit in his towel, while shivering himself; it was so sweet," said Liz. "We were campi

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