As far as I can remember it IS illegeal to keep any wild animals with out a license. That would be why it's always advised to contact your local animal services or if your in a national park the park warden if you find any abandoned or injured wild animals so that they can relocate them or get them in to the proper care facility.

I know for a fact that in Calgary that if baby animals are found abandoned the animal services either places them with the zoo's wildlife rehab center for care until they are old enough to be released or they place them in one of the other wildlife rehab centers until they can be released or if it turns out they have an injury that prevents them from ever being in the wild all the rehab places keep them in habitats that resemble their natural ones as much as possible and allow the animals to live a basiclly wild live but in the safety of the center.

In other words, you and your husband should get on the phone, phone the animals services in your area and tell them whats going on. I know you were just trying to help but removing an animal from it's habitat especially when it's still young can actually in the long run end up harming it rather then helping.