Cool, please still do. He needs to get back into the wild at some point and you really want him rewilded properly so he doesn’t approach less friendly humans with dogs or depends on humans for food and starves to death in winter. :) please
Not OP, but right after Hurricane Katrina, we rescued a young squirrel, not much bigger than the one in OP’s photo. We took care of it for about a week while people were busy cutting fallen trees and cleaning up debris, then we let the little fella go.
He came back damn near every day for about 6 months!
I’ve had friendly squirrels in places I’ve lived before, I really like it. They’re like a pet you don’t have to be responsible for, just offer them some unsalted peanuts. They LOVE those.
Are there any issues with having pet squirrels? Not that I’d want to adopt one for the sake of it, but if you have to rescue one like OP is there any issue with just adopting it as a pet?
Like someone else noted, they tend to go bonkers when they are mature enough and you have to let them outside. They have extremely sharp teeth that can cut to the bone and can be destructive. But if you rehab one they often visit.
Cool, please still do. He needs to get back into the wild at some point and you really want him rewilded properly so he doesn’t approach less friendly humans with dogs or depends on humans for food and starves to death in winter. :) please
Not OP, but right after Hurricane Katrina, we rescued a young squirrel, not much bigger than the one in OP’s photo. We took care of it for about a week while people were busy cutting fallen trees and cleaning up debris, then we let the little fella go.
He came back damn near every day for about 6 months!
I’ve had friendly squirrels in places I’ve lived before, I really like it. They’re like a pet you don’t have to be responsible for, just offer them some unsalted peanuts. They LOVE those.
Are there any issues with having pet squirrels? Not that I’d want to adopt one for the sake of it, but if you have to rescue one like OP is there any issue with just adopting it as a pet?
Like someone else noted, they tend to go bonkers when they are mature enough and you have to let them outside. They have extremely sharp teeth that can cut to the bone and can be destructive. But if you rehab one they often visit.
They can apparently get into some mischief…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CIMGTO6aFc