My squirrel
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 5:15 pm
First one is from the day we found him, second was from a day or two ago. Sorry my camera phone is terrible.
How we found him: walking to class on the sidewalk next to the parking lot, I see a dead squirrel and wondered how it ended up there. Roommate pointed out it was still alive. I moved the thing over to the grass figuring its mom would find it, and if not i'd deal with it after class came out if someone else didn't help it. When class was done, I didn't see him, but then saw he had moved to the middle of the parking lot (not sure how he didn't get run over) - turns out he was freezing cold and was sitting there because it was warm (baby squirrels can't produce their own body heat). So I brought him home with me since I didn't have heart to leave him.
At the time I thought he was older and more self sufficient and would just need a bit of food/water and a safe place, but it turns out he had more or less just opened his eyes, was basicly blind and utterly helpless. I believe he was also on the verge of dying from hypothermia and/or starvation, because he curled up into a ball and stopped responding. Of course then we got some water for him and he freaked out trying to drink it making feeding him almost impossible.
So far its been 3 weeks and he's doing great, can see now, runs around, climbs...shits everywhere when i try to let him out of his cage. Sigh.
DarnYak
How we found him: walking to class on the sidewalk next to the parking lot, I see a dead squirrel and wondered how it ended up there. Roommate pointed out it was still alive. I moved the thing over to the grass figuring its mom would find it, and if not i'd deal with it after class came out if someone else didn't help it. When class was done, I didn't see him, but then saw he had moved to the middle of the parking lot (not sure how he didn't get run over) - turns out he was freezing cold and was sitting there because it was warm (baby squirrels can't produce their own body heat). So I brought him home with me since I didn't have heart to leave him.
At the time I thought he was older and more self sufficient and would just need a bit of food/water and a safe place, but it turns out he had more or less just opened his eyes, was basicly blind and utterly helpless. I believe he was also on the verge of dying from hypothermia and/or starvation, because he curled up into a ball and stopped responding. Of course then we got some water for him and he freaked out trying to drink it making feeding him almost impossible.
So far its been 3 weeks and he's doing great, can see now, runs around, climbs...shits everywhere when i try to let him out of his cage. Sigh.
DarnYak