I raised one too. She came staggering across the lawn & tried to nurse on my toe. She was so tiny. I bottlefed her, and she took to it like a duck to water. Her favorite thing was to crawl into the sleeve of my baggy sweater & sleep like she was in a hammock. It is SOOO illegal to save a baby squirrel in MA, I had to turn her back into the wild as soon as she was able to fend for herself. I hope she did okay.
We let my three “experiments” out in the wild after about a year. They darted right out of the cage and into some of the nearby oak trees like nothing happened.
They’re cute little buggers, but they’re not cuddly like you’d think.
Awwww, she sounds cute.
What a sweet story.
I raised a baby squirrel that my dog found in the back yard, it fell out of a tree. My dog brought her to me gently without hurting her. I bottle fed her and she loved to ride on my shoulder as I walked around the house.
When you passed by someone she would jump to their shoulder and continue her ride.
I was standing in front of a mirror and she must have thought there was another person there and she jump to their shoulder. Instead she hit the mirror and injured her spine.
She was paralyzed from the middle of her body down. I had to have her put to sleep and it broke my heart.