Brinsley Animal Rescue » squirrel http://brinsleyanimalrescue.org Call local rate 0845 458 2813 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:05:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Hand Rearing Squirrels http://brinsleyanimalrescue.org/2009/08/23/hand-rearing-squirrels/ http://brinsleyanimalrescue.org/2009/08/23/hand-rearing-squirrels/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:44:32 +0000 Jon http://brinsleyanimalrescue.org/?p=2601 On 20 August we had three very young squirrels delivered to us, these were found by a member of the public that had disturbed them whilst cleaning a chimney. Unfortunately the mother left her three babies and was too frightened to return.

We are now hand rearing all three, this is very time consuming, feeding them every 3 hours and then mimicking all the natural motherly actions, like teaching them to go to the toilet after feeding.

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