Comments on: Rescued Baby Squirrel

By: Jayde

Jayde — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:55:00 +0000

I knew some people who found a baby squirrel and took care of it. When it got bigger they let it outside and left their window open, with peanuts in a bowl on the coffee table. It would climb up the bbq and into the window to get food. At first it was cute, but since it was so used to humans it wasn’t afraid of them either. It bit my little brother. He didn’t draw blood though. I don’t know if it’s still alive, though, I moved away.

By: E

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:09:14 +0000

Nice to know there are people out there like them.

By: Oomi

Oomi — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:36:55 +0000

By: monstruoso

monstruoso — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:12:28 +0000

The best thing for me in the video is the kindness and gentleness of the people caring for this tiny bit of life. So beautiful. Thank you.

By: Viola

Viola — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:09:36 +0000

Squirrels are cute. I think the neatest wild pet I know is my schoolmate’s pet raccoon named Niko. He’s pretty freakin’ awesome.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:01:06 +0000

Awesome! Too cute!

By: Yinan Chen

Yinan Chen — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:55:43 +0000

The squirrel is very cute indeed, but they are a little too wild to keep as real pets. I think you can tame one from birth, they do get used to humans fairly easily as they are everywhere.

By: Mothra

Mothra — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:36:25 +0000

My dad saved a baby squirrel when he was a kid. The mom died so he and each of his friends took one as a pet, but his lived the longest. It used to nestle in the sleeve of his coat, or eat in a sock with squirrel food at the bottom, and he’d let it climb trees and when he knocked on the bottom of the tree, it would come down.
Which is way cool. So props to any squirrel rescuers out there.

By: bean

bean — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:13:59 +0000

Dave -
That started out kinda cute, and then took a 90 degree turn into creepy rule 34 land.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:52:12 +0000

That reminds me of the two kittens I found behind our house years ago. The mother was feral, and had moved all but the two, and they were next to dead when my brother & I found them. We put them in a box with a blanket & heating pad on low and fed them through an eyedropper. Later we found that pet shops had formula and bottles especially for kittens. That was pretty cool.

One weird thing is that kittens (and I would imagine squirrel kittens too) aren’t able to pee on their own; normally the mother will lick their bottoms to get them to pee, and keeps the nest clean at the same time (can you say EEEWWWW!!??) I wasn’t about to do that for them, but used a warm damp cloth to do the same thing. As the kitties got more mobile, they figured out how to do that for each other, and satisfied their need for suckling at the same time. Kind of a kitteh 69 thing going on. I took some pictures of that, but mom made them disappear long ago. Too bad; that’d be some good LOLCats fodder.

By: LisaL

LisaL — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:12:16 +0000

I’m sure they’d be ok to be kept ‘tame’ in a yard. Let it go outside, but still keep food and stuff out for it to come back for.

I just love squirrels. I don’t see how people can see them as pests and even think about comparing them to rats (even though I have nothing against rats either so long as they’re not in my house).

Anywho… yay for nice people who like to help animals!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:49:15 +0000

I think you just made my day. I adore baby squirrels. I got to take care of a litter that was brought into the vet office I was working for. I wish they had good enough behavior to make a reasonable pet. Or at least let themselves be tame in a yard!

By: ted

ted — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:30:33 +0000

That’s sweet.
Squirrels kept getting into my friend’s garage, and building nests. They killed a lot of squirrel babies that year. I wouldn’t have had the guts.

We also had one fall out of a tree once – poor thing. My sister called Animal Control, and they took it away. I woulda loved to have taken care of it.

By: BladedChimera

BladedChimera — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:25:52 +0000

my sister nursed a squirrel back to health it was a baby so she fed it with a medicine dropper thing (they things they use to give babies/little kids medicine no idea what its called)

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:23:46 +0000

KAWAII

By: biltmore

biltmore — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:14:27 +0000

Awwww, that was really sweet of them.

By: bean

bean — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:04:25 +0000

These people did the right thing, but it’s too bad squirrels are too ornery to be kept as pets.