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I have done this five times in my life, and I am glad to say that 3 out of 5 have made it to the point where they could be released back into the wild. I am sorry to say 2 didn’t make it :( One of the ones that died had severe injuries with internal bleeding and the other died of pneumonia. Baby squirrels catch pneumonia very easily especially if you try to force feed them.

Here is the best advice I can give anyone trying to save a baby squirrel. Feed whole milk, with a little karo syrup and vitamin E (water soluable), scald the mixture on the stove. Never feed a cold baby, warm them up first with a heating pad. If you are feeding with a bottle make sure the hole in the nipple is very tiny like a pinhole. Or if you feed them from a dropper let them suck out the amount they can handle, don’t try to squeeze it out into their mouths. This will keep the formula from running down into their lungs. Feed every 4 hours or so for the first few weeks and let them drink until they are full. You will need to stimulate them to use the restroom afterwards – this is very important!

You have a great feeling of accomplishment when you see that squirrel scamper up the tree and out of your sight, and you know that you did your best to prepare them for this moment. It is a little sad when you see that they don’t need you any more – but that should be the outcome you were striving for because wild animals deserve to be free!

If anyone needs help raising an orphaned squirrel please contact me. I would love to help!

I found this website has a lot of great information:

http://www.geocities.com/squirrelcare/first.html

I always think I am resposible for everyone and everything. I always think I could have done better, or I could have done more. I sometimes get to the point where I overdo something so horribly it would have been better if I had just left it alone. It took a tiny puppy dying in the palm of my hand for me to realize that it sometimes isn’t that you haven’t done enough, but that you have done too much.

Use extreme caution when buying a laptop on eBay! I bought one on eBay and thought I got a great deal. Well, it worked for about a total of 5 minutes. It kept saying the memory was low. It was so old I couldn’t figure out where the memory card went. I tried to open it up to install new memory and ended up unhooking things that shouldn’t have been unhooked. After all that, I realized it would cost about $200 to upgrade this to even be able to play 1 game on it, let alone get on the internet! And along with what it would cost to repair the damage I had done to it I might as well have bought a new one!

Anyway there are 2 morals of this story: first of all leave some things to professionals (like installing memory into old laptops) and second, you get what you pay for. There are some things you just shouldn’t try to be cheap with.

I ended up not even being able to resell it because of the damage I had done to the thing.

My boyfriend is helping me keep up with this one. We read together every night before bed. We take turns reading. It really helps put everything into perspective, and keeps us focused and on the right track.

I bought a bunch of bootleg Broadway shows. It’s just like being there in the theatre, peoples’ fat heads in the way and all!

I think it made me realize a lot of things about myself and others. For instance how people with different backgrounds can view things so differently, yet also be so much alike. It opened me up to new experiences and new ways of thinking. It also made me realize how ignorant and insensitive people can be toward people of other races.

...And loved the experience so much I got another one. Then started breeding them. They are a wonderful breed. See my website www.angelpuppies.net for some great info on the shih tzu.