In the middle of the pandemic, two orphaned squirrels brought joy
“We knew going in this wasn’t a pet situation,” he said. “We wanted to raise them to release them to their next adventure. All we really wanted to do was give them the chance to not just die as babies in the yard.”
The earliest days of squirrel parenting meant feeding the pair every two hours, day and night. It also meant rubbing their private parts to encourage them to go to the bathroom, something the mother does in the wild. There was a complication with Squirt. Squirrel teeth never stop growing. Normally, the constant gnawing squirrels do — of food, of trees, of the siding on your house — keeps the teeth worn down. But Squirt had a wonky jaw — a malocclusion, possibly from the fall — and Brian had to clip his teeth every week or so. It seemed unlikely Squirt could survive in the wild.
Brian found someone who lived about 80 miles away and met the person late at night for a surreptitious handover. Alas, Squirt died 10 days later, possibly of a heart attack.
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