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Well I caught a Squirrel 2 weeks ago and have been feeding her and taking care of her and I came in from school today and she was having babies! Ill try to get pictures of them soon if mamma squirrel will let me! Does anyone have any info of what I could do to help the mamma and her babies???? Ive never raised any squirrel babies. Haha

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I would imagine keeping them in a warm place would be the most important thing this time of year. Momma will do most your work for ya more than likely.

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Yeah shes been in the house since I caught her. Ive got her in a small cage but im trying to find a big one to put her in.

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Get them out of your house as soon as you can for sure! My grandma used to have a squirrel in her house when we were young. He would stay in a cage at night and roam the house during the day. Couple years after he died my grandma found were it had made a nest in little hidden corner. There was seriously ten boxes of tissues in that nest along with all the stuff the squirrel had stolen over the years! haha

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Well I caught a Squirrel 2 weeks ago and have been feeding her and taking care of her and I came in from school today and she was having babies! Ill try to get pictures of them soon if mamma squirrel will let me! Does anyone have any info of what I could do to help the mamma and her babies???? Ive never raised any squirrel babies. Haha

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droopydog this last summer we raised a baby squirrel. the best

thing to do is to have them a nice warm spot in the dark.we let

ours run around the house and he made a nest behind a chair

but it wasn't hard to clean up. also the one we raised was about

4 or 5 weeks old and we didn't have the momma so don't handle

the babies because she might kill them if your scent gets on them

and for giving the momma food give her peanuts acorns corn ect.

and when they get 4 weeks old i want one!

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and if you get a bigger cage put the little one in the big one and

let them come out as they want to also we went to petsmart

and bought a little thing that birds go in and our squirrel loved it

oh and don't let them chew on electrical wires thats how ours

died

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If the mother will take care of them then let her, but if she dont, you will need a eyedropper, 2nd step puppy weaning food and they need to get fed about every 2 hours, oh and alot of time. We hand raised 2 squirells and it was alot of work.

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Thanks for all the info guys!! I will keep yuns updated.

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also if they sound as if they are screaming their head off they are
hungry

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He was so cute sleeping

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Squirrel potpie yum yum

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you could maybe put an old washcloth in there for the baby squirells

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Well in the past week the baby squirrels and there mamma have went from living in the trailer park to living in Beverly Hills!!! Over the weekend myself and my step-dad built the squirrels a new cage. It is around 4'6'' Tall, 36'' Wide, and 30'' deep. There is a log (tree) for the squirrels to climb up and I built them a nice box to live in up top beside the tree. What do yall think????

A Front/Left picture of there new cage


A front view of the cage


A clean-out tray to keep their messes down to a minumum with an easy cleanup


And last but not least here is Mamma squirrel with her babies (If you look to the right you will see part of one of the babies. There are 3 in total)

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thats a perfect house for the squirells and i'm sure they love it

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What a Great squirrel condo! My sisters(all WAY older than me...) grew up with a squirrel named Chipper. It was unusual in the Boston MA area to have a pet squirrel. I don't recall the story but I assume she was orphaned and hand raised.
Your momma and babies are very lucky! Enjoy! Heather

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Thanks for the replies! Yeah I believe the mamma and her babies are in good shape! I will keep everyone updated and post pics as they grow. Thanks

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Sad News:

I came home to day and discovered that the mamma squirrel had killed all 3 of her babies!! I hated that this happened cause I had high hopes of keeping one as a pet. Does anyone have any idea as how I might get another baby squirrel to keep as a pet? Ive heard of people raising them for the Wildlife offices but dont know how true this is? Any help will be appriciated. Thanks

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Very nice condo ya made there and sorry to hear the momma did that. There may of been something wrong with them or all the stress was too much for her.

i raised a litter of baby bunnies once. My dad ran over the nest with the mower and diced the momma to bits. Eye dropper fed them buggers every two hours and as soon as they were old enough we took 'em to the woods. We did lose two....one my dog ate and one just died.

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5 years ago I saw something fall out of the Tree.. Gave it to my wife wth a Pet Bottle .. And well He's still in the spare bed Room .. LOL

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