Monday was crazy. A bunch of new animals came in over the weekend and baby squirrel season has officially started. We have a few pinkie squirrels which I will post a picture of below, and a few that are a little bit older and are starting to get their grey color. One of them that was found, was thought to be a puppy by the person that found it and ended up going to PetCo and they told him it was a premature puppy. His wife later looked it up online and they realized it was a squirrel. We get some really funny stories like that sometimes. We also got a new opossum that was thought to be a kitten and the opossum with the broken jaw was brought to us over the weekend also.
The four older baby squirrels are still being syringe fed, no longer getting antibiotics, and now starting to eat sunflower seeds, walnuts, and apple. I then made up the outside squirrel dishes and went out and fed them in the pouring rain- hey, at least the heat wave is over. The high 90s and 100 degree weather is now back down to to 80s. The group of 8 baby opossums were split up because they are getting too big for their tank they are in. I got to make Rafiki's (groundhog) formula, which is Esbilac- puppy replacer formula. I will have to go take pictures of the fawns this week because since Kelly feeds them in the morning and they now don't get their afternoon bottle, I haven't been out there with them in a few weeks. They are getting HUGE. Some of the opossums that were in the barn were moved outside which is making things a lot easier. The other two red foxes we have ended up getting mange also....but Yoda was treated for it and already looks TONS better. They were supposed to be released by next week but now they have to wait a few more weeks.
Here is a pinkie squirrel
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