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Originally Posted by Spitpatch
Ok, maybe I'm late here (since your post was an "update", and I assume you found him as an orphan and raised him up). What kind of a squirrel is he?
Anyway, pretty cool. When I was a kid in Nevada, a squirrel showed up at our house (where there are no tree-type squirrels). Lived in the rafters, and I'd wake up in the morning to hear him running laps around the circumference of the soffits of the roof.
Long story short, he was already tame, we lured him into the garage with peanuts, he'd eat from our hand, and Dad made a huge cage for him before winter set in.
Springtime came around, and we saw an ad in the paper from someone from California who'd lost their pet squirrel the summer before! (Talk about hope and faith!)
They came out to the house, and called him by name, and he leaped to them, so we had to give him up.
Again, pretty cool, and what the heck kinda squirrel is Earle?
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Here is the original thread (read down at the bottom):
http://forum.ih8mud.com/hunting-fish...l-hunting.html
Earle is a Fox Squirrel....but is a "Melanistic phase" (black).
We have several "black fox sq's" around here....but they are not the norm. He is getting a little bit of brown showing up now that he is getting older, but he will remain kind of "grizzled" looking (salt and pepper) if he turns out anything like the other adults I've seen.
A couple more months, some more introduction back into the wild...and Earle ought to be able to make it on his own.