After taking care of her for so many weeks, I miss her already. She will be progressively moved into larger cages until we feel she has recovered enough to be released. Miracle will always have a special place in my heart and you can bet I'll be there for his eventual release.Īpril 3,2011, Rose and the babies are moved to a new outdoor cage to begin her adjustment back into the wild. He's been outside for several weeks now in a prerelease cage and still eating everything he can get his hands on. Well, Miracle as we call him got over his almost frozen condition, began to gain weight, and ate everything in sight. So cute and cool to see! So we had done all we could do for the moment.
When warm, she gave him sub-Q fluids and put him with two smaller babies she already had and he just grabbed one in each arm (for warmth and comfort) and fell asleep. When we got back, he still was barely moving, but seemed to be warming a bit. While she drove home, I held him in a towel under the van's heater and massaged him to get his circulation going and to get him warmed up. We took it, mentioning that it should have been inside and on a heating pad, but said we'd do what we could and left. Unfortunately, the unknowing man had kept it outside in the cold in the box with a small towel for several hours and the temperature was in the forties. When he put it in Melissa's hands, she thought it was dead, it was extremely cold, not moving and we could not tell if it was breathing. When we got back from walking in the Human Race on March 26th, Melissa checked the PWR Voice Mail and a man had called that said he'd found a baby squirrel at the bottom of his tree, had put it in a box with towels and was keeping it warm. Learn more about box turtles and how you can help. Our Box turtles are in trouble so please do not take them home. When seeing turtles crossing the road, if it is safe for you to do so, move them to the other side in the direction they are going. He caught a lucky break to be sure as only the carapace was broken!
Both of them have recovered and are thriving in the care of PWR. Hurray!! Happy ending! Melissa gave her a sip of sugar water and then reunited her with her sister, who immediately wanted to play.
The adult ran up and pounced on the infant, which tried to flee and immediately lost its balance and plummeted to the ground, where it was captured using my fish pond net. We watched with trepidation as it approached. Eventually her constant crying attracted the attention of an adult squirrel in a nearby tree. She roused from her rest and began crawling along the branch, first toward the tree trunk, then back out toward the end of the branch, back and forth, back and forth. We kept her in sight, and finally took ourselves out of sight, leaving sister on the ground in her carrier.Īt some point, sister must have been getting hungry, because she began crying, and then so did our tree-bound baby. It was late in the day, temperatures were dropping, and we feared the baby would not survive another night without warmth and nourishment. She traveled higher, then came back down partway, finding a warm sunbeam on a large horizontal branch to rest on. When Melissa arrived, with the sister squirrel in tow, we stood in the yard for awhile, hoping #4 would see her sister and come on down, but no such luck. However, this little girl was much shyer than her sister she saw me and scooted round to the other side of the tree and right back up to higher ground. Melissa said she would come right over and that I should stand in the yard and see if it would come to me. I was on the phone talking to Melissa about acorns when I happened to see that the squirrel in question had managed to climb down to within 25 feet or so of the ground.
Then quiet all day until late afternoon, when I again heard the crying. Unfortunately, the cries were coming from high in the tree.The nest was at the very tip-top of a mature beech. The morning after I turned her over to PWR, I heard baby squirrel distress calls and knew right away (being a rescuer of vast experience by this time) that this was most likely the sibling to #3. Baby #3 even plopped herself right down on my shoe. It's been raining baby squirrels at my house in the Green Valley neighborhood of Greensboro: four in the past month, all of which I gratefully turned over to the care of wildlife rehabbers.Īll of the babies came right up to me, as if asking for help. Jean's baby squirrels, too young to be without Mom Thank you Jay Palen, Patrick Palen and Marco Hudson with Troop 368 for hanging squirrel nest boxes for us.
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