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Originally Posted by alex e
I raised three. Keep a heating pad under his nest box with towels inside he can burrow under. You have to feed them every 2-3 hours and make sure you stimulate their privates so they will do number 1 or 2. Otherwise they poison themselves. Take a cotton ball dipped in warm water and wipe his privates with it to simulate Mom Squirrel doing her thing. He will most likely proceed to mess on your hand. This is a good thing. Also I dusted mine with kitten flea powder and changed nesting towels ever couple of hours until the fleas no longer were visible on the towels. Towels went into the dryer at max heat to kill fleas that clung to them.
If he makes it, he will never leave you alone. It will be funny when he stands at the window wanting to come inside.......mine went to an animal reintroduction farm and were released once big enough.
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Yeah, tell me about it. His last feeding was about 1:00 am this morning then again at about 5:00 when I got up.
Went to town and got some Esbilac, a feeding bottle, some wood chips, some pet pads, some seed/fruit sticks. So $40.00 later I get back home...and feed him again. He eats way too fast..so I have to try and regulate that.
Fortunately, he is old enough to have figured out "relieving himself" usually on my shirt after his daily bath.
He likes to sleep a lot. Right after feeding...he'll head for his heating pad (under an old shirt)...and won't appear again for a couple of hours.
Wants to climb a little and explore for awhile before he starts "muzzling" indicating he wants to be fed.
I lost him inside the recliner this morning for about 5 minutes. He had crawled down beside my leg and the seat cushion....and first you know....HE'S GONE!
I reach down under the cushion only to find that the fabric is torn beneath it..and Earle has gone up inside the chair. Well Crap!
I reach up under there as far as my fat arm will let me, but no Earle. I can hear him clawing around in there and kinda (clucking), but I can't get to him. About the time I think I'm going to have to cut the back of the recliner open, he comes popping out the bottom of it.
No more feeding in the recliner!
I'll keep him a few weeks until he gets bigger, learns to climb...etc.
Maybe the mama squirrel will show up, I've been watching for her. I don't want to turn Earle out until I know he can get around pretty well or if the mother shows up (and not a Male). Another Male will kill him.
I live in the country so basically releasing him into my back yard is returning him to the "wild". I just don't him to be too imprinted with humans.