Baby Squirrel in the house

[Norbo]

My son came running to my bedroom first thing this morning, shouting Dad Dad the cats have corned a Squirrel near the bins. So go down to have a look and he had put his breakfast bole down for it with his cornflakes and milk in and there it is drinking from it.

So I get the camera and took this footage.

It starts to run up to me and then right under my legs and up my arm and stays there griping in to me like I’m its mum “ its only a baby” then it sicks up some milk down my arm. Nice !!!

Its in shock most likely been having trouble with my 2 of my 3 cats by the looks of it . so at the moment its in the Bathroom chilling out with water and food . if I let ig go now in the state its in the cats will just catch it and kill it . So I think ill see how fit it is in the morning.
Both Pics are Vids click to vew

[lcolin]

Personally i'd let it take its chances. Chances are it going to happen at some point anyway - might as well be sooner rather than later. (but then i'm not a fan of grey squirrels anyway)

[Norbo]

well i have 3 cats and take if from mr if id have let it go yesterday it would have been dinner.

[lcowner]

thats just class norbo

[mellow]

awww bless!!! tree rat ;D

[trev1340]

Vermin rats with fluffy tails let it take its chances with nature and there bloody yanks

[scott]

nice likkle snack for the snake m8

[JonW]

wow! Amazing to have one on your hand Norbo, very cool. Looks like it has a bad left front foot, and no i wouldnt let it be killed either, give it a chance at life etc.

[Norbo]

I have decided to keep it .

I was talking to Dave yates from this forum who had one as a pet when he was 13. and my kids realy love it .

so its staying . i get it out in the morning and it spend a few hours running all over me i give it nuts and stuff and an right now doing this post with it curled up on my sholder snugeled in to my neck .

We are calling it chinkcup Becourse its as small as a chipmonk and i used to keep them years ago and my little girl at that time coulnd say chipmonk and sais chinkcup inseted .

Ill do some more pics soon as its so friendly . I know they are a tree rat but there fluffy and i used to keep rats mice gerbals mamsters and the likes when i was yung so i dont mined . ( Ofcourse they were fod for my 100's of snaks and lizerds so im not sure thet realy counts LOL )

[JonW]

OMG Norbo.... what have you done! I sent my Mrs the link and she said 'we need one!' and now if she finds out you can keep them she will make my life hell LOL!

(It is very cute tho... )

[mellow]

are u having a relationship with it norbs
Mind those claws ;D

[Deleted]

lol at mellow,i best that alone i think

[Sunny]

I usually shoot tree rats!!!!!! not native to the GREAT british Isles........ but that is SOOOOOOOO goddd damneddddd CUTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEE, xxx I wanna WUV IT AND SNUWWGLE IT LIKE LOADS... i vow to stop shooting them for a whole month

[airbraker]

Years ago some of the guys in our factory tempted a squirel into a blokes locker and then shut the door. That was Friday. Monday morning matey opened his locker and the thing shot at him like a possesed rat on acid. He had to go to hospital and have all kinds of jabs and tests !

[Deleted]

ok , i have man Vs wild moment, its the funniest thing ive ever seen, i used to drive dozers etc about 20 years ago and was clearing a few trees when i came across a few suger gliders, for those that dont know them ,these were like little possoms with flaPS OF FURRY SKIN THE GOES FROM THERE FRONT LEGS TO THE BACK LEGS AND THEY GLIDE FROM TREE TO TREE, THESE TYPE ARE ABOUT THE SIZE OF YOUr Hand,anyway i picked one up and was marveling at how cute it was when BOB,thats his real name ,came over to have a look, i went to hand it to him and it jumped from his hand to his elbow then to his face, and attached itself exactly like in the movie aliens, the 2 top claws latched onto his eyelids and the bottom 2 latched under his chin,it was like a mask, anyway he started to get the top claws of his eyelids then started on the other ones but as soon as he would let a claw go it would reattach istelf, i had to help him get it off but i was laughing that hard it wasnt easy, anyway it probably took 30 seconds to get it off his face, he looked at it and frisbeed it away about 3 or 4 meter ,then said "f#ck i hate possoms", it was the 1st and only time i had ever heard him swear,because it was a hot day ,the blood was running down his face a bit, this is a 100% true story and everytime i think of it i laugh.

[Norbo]

Ken thats so funny . I can just imagine what it looked like . its making me largh now.

[JonW]

Hahaha! too funny Ken! D

...so whats the update on Chinkcup then Norbo? My Mrs is needing to know... I would accuse her of badgering me, but that would remind her about badgers and she would want me to get you to go and find one for your menagerie! LOL

[billy]

Yeeeah I also want to know Norb! Is the left front leg OK now?

EDIT: We once had a wild ferret! I found it screaming in the road ditch so I took it home. (I know, I know, perhaps I should have left it, but I didn't see any other ferrets around so I thought it was abandoned)
He was tiny! You could easily hold him in one hand.

He was a PITA though as he bit our achilles tendons all the time lol. But he liked to play with the cat, however I'm sure the cat didn't like it as much as the ferret used to aim for the cats balls when playing. ;D

To put a long story short, we realised this ferret was just too damn wild and had to be released. If not for a wild life, some sort of semi-wild life where it could spend most of the time outside and get in to warm itself and get food etc. So we let him out and he had his little nest just outside the door, he made some sort of hole in the ground under the stairs where he spent alot of time.

We gave him food and stuff and he was running around the barn and stuff all the time, so all of the sudden he popped up from nowhere. People were wondering WTF a ferret was doing there lol. At this point he was about 25-30 cm long without the tail, so the bugger was getting bigger.

Eventually he went away though. Where he went, I don't know. Perhaps he was ran over by a car, or perhaps found the river a few hundred metres away? I think ferrets like rivers, I usually see them near rivers.

Anyway, he lived an interesting life. If he wasn't so wild, we would definitly keep him, but it was just too damn hard to keep him as a pet.

We have a pic of him with the cat somewhere but I have no idea where it is now. Havn't thought much about this until now actually, it was like 10 years ago, perhaps even more.