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Chromatic posted:

http://i.imgur.com/5DsGMEG.gifv

Croisquessein posted:

No pictures I'm afraid but a cute story. Yesterday afternoon I found a baby ground squirrel where I work in Scottsdale AZ, which is near a lot of open desert. Lots of squirrels running around but this one was way too far from where he was supposed to be. He was shivering and squeaking for his mom. His eyes weren't quite open yet, probably only a couple weeks old. I only had a few minutes left on my lunch break, so it was leave it to nature or take him back inside and wait until I could get him home. Unfortunately I didn't have the option of leaving early.

So I sat at my desk and finished the work day with the little guy in my lap, covered by my coat. I had messaged my manager about the situation and she said no way to keeping the squirrel inside, but when she came and saw him she pretty much fell in love with him, and later brought about seven people by my cubicle to see. He was the star of the office that day.

When I got him home we got some Pedialite to hydrate him and a heating pad to put him on, and the little guy started to perk up. Getting liquid into him was tough because he was so squirmy and wanted to climb everything, but he eventually started sucking it down and was able to sleep.

I kept giving him liquid every hour or so, and each time I brough him out he was doing a little better and getting bolder. I named him Squiggle.

Next morning he woke me up with a littany of high pitched chirps to let me know he was cold. I reheated his pad (one of those rice pad things for aches and pains) and put it in with him, and he went right back to sleep.

I didn't feed him during this time, because the info on what to feed squirrels was conflicting- milk, no milk, puppy replacement milk is fine, absolutely not, etc. They all agreed warmth and liquid was most important so I stuck with that.

As soon as I got up I called a lady in Queen Creek who does rehab of small mammals. I took Squiggle to her as soon as I could this morning, and she told me he was in fine shape and would do well with the other baby squirrels she had (she got seven new ones just over the weekend).

I had been worried about whether I did the right thing by taking him, as whenever you see a baby animal it's always possible mom is nearby and will come get him. But from what I described, with Squiggle so far from the normal area, wandering alone, the lady surmised that something had happened to the mom or the nest had beed disturbed, and even at two weeks the babies will crawl out looking for her if she doesn't come back.

So little guy had a hard day yesterday but he's now safe and sound and will grow up with his squirrel buddies. God speed, Squiggle.

Sock Weasel posted:

Croisquessein you did such a great job with the heating pad and everything oh my gosh. Go you


I'm a wildlife rehabilitator and my focus species is opossums; usually I get between 6 to 15 in per year and they are ridiculously cute when they're young. (I'm up to 8 at the moment already this year though!) They're a little weird to rehabilitate in that they're marsupials, so the tiny young ones literally can't bottle feed so you have to tube feed them. Nothing quite like spending an hour intubating seven teeny protesting creatures every two hours for weeks until they're older.


This guy had been picked up by someone and kept in a bra for two days being drip fed cows milk. Don't do that, folks. I named him Hefner.


These guys started off as a litter of six but we lost four due to a mystery illness. (Not uncommon for young ones which have been feeding off a dead mother, it just kinda comes with the job.) They had really sparse coats growing up and looked super weird but eventually made it to normal adulthood and were released.


(They flop their ears over like that while sleeping. )

Current beans:

Litter of 7 graciously named by PIFB. Taco Belle, Likeable Sand, Miss Universe, Batman, Tim Horton, Cactoid Jim and Superslam. The single older male is mean as poo poo which is good; I was called out to relocate him from someone's dryer vent so his name is Febreze.

nerdz posted:

ElMaligno posted:

http://i.imgur.com/ME7PbqA.webm

Croisquessein posted:

Thank you all and special thanks to the great lady who runs https://www.desertcry.org and takes in all the little animals other people consider nuisances. If you find orphaned or injured squirrels, rabbits, skunks, etc. in the Phoenix area, please give her a call.

SynthOrange posted:

just put the video in here!

http://i.imgur.com/hpqROBq.webm

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

What's up with goons and cattes?

It's not a negative criticism or anything of the sort, it's just a observation that goons seem to be overwhelmingly catte owners.

Where are the goon dogges? Cute thread needs more goon dogges! (I personally apologize for not posting a pic, I am without dogge )




P.S. Still post cute cattes too

AFewBricksShy posted:

This is my dog, Biscuit. (gently caress you, my daughter named her).

whiteyfats posted:

Biscuit is a top tier name for a dog.

SpacePig posted:

The only thing wrong with it is that you seem ashamed of it. Love your dog, in all its names.

Rexxed posted:

My mom's been having some health problems but Sassy the yorkie has been "helping" by never leaving her alone for even a minute, except for when I snapped this picture. She's helping in the picture by sitting on some mail.

McDragon posted:

Is that a tiny tongue peeking out there?

Kerbtree posted:

On girlfriend's orders, here's Pepper lazing in a sunbeam:

Also commonly found upside-down:

Busket Posket posted:

It was an earth-shattering day when I learned to image search for "blep" to find animals sticking their tongue slightly out

CharlieWhiskey posted:

Goons and cattes both like to stay inside.

cash crab posted:

I am sad and I don't know what I want to look at, but this is helping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBsDFFtmiuE

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