Squirrel is my new child...
 

So, I was down in the garage yesterday, and I recued this little guy from a cat. He's only 3-4 weeks old, and barely has the beginning of some teeth. He makes a huge commotion if I try to put him down. He thinks I'm his mom or something I'm sure. I've been feeding him room-temperature milk from a mustard sueeze bottle, and I know that he loves it and it'll help him grow.

BTW - His name is Fuch!

Anybody know the legality of keeping a squirrel in the state of CA, also who I should contact if I want him to grow up in a state park.
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dont they got rabies ?

somone once discribed squirrels as rats !

pass as for your other question

They're sure cute when so young.
A squirrel will grow up wild and prone to biting (hard). If you call a local animal shelter they should be able to direct you to a care center or zoo that will be able to raise the animal properly.
Cows' milk is not always the best, nutritionaly, for young animals.

"Hello, my name is Fuch the Squirrel." LOL

He's a cute little guy. I go out to a park at lunchtime to eat once in a while, and I get surrounded by these little moochers. They are relentless.

Anyway, I second calling a zoo to see what they say.

i guess you are not real popular with the cat!

i love the name, people keep flying squirrels as pets. i cant remember what they are called. something gliders? i would check around, you wouldnt want one to bite down on your nuts. peanuts, walnuts, acorns, whatever nuts, you dont want to have laying around.

i wonder if the storing food thing is instinctial, or should you be hiding bigMACs and stuff around in cubby holes? as a life lesson.

I'm gonna keep him until he's fast enough to get away from critters, and then I'll probably turn him loose in the coolest, most squirrel-friendly place possible.

your in hollywood, call an animal trainer. you critter may be the next big star in a snickers commercial, or NUT n HONEY. a parent's dream is to see the kids succeed.

I know the crowd, maybe I could get him in at my buddy's studio for a screen test.

I had a baby squirrel as a kid. My dad fed it milk too. It ran around the house and was fun. When it was full grown we released it outside. It played in the tree for a while. Then it saw we were going back in the house and ran after us. It didn't like to live outside because we were its family. Great pet, they don't bite but scratch the hell out of you.

That's fine. My wife does all the biting, usually when I come home with parts:)

Cute, see a shelter about formula milk and advice.

Talked to the local squirrel adoption lady. Didn't know there was such a thing.

Tonight I'm going to try to get him back in his mother's nest, and hope she doesn't try to kill my @$$!!! If not, she's probably gonna take over. I'm just moving into my new place, and me and the wife work crazy hours.

Better to leave this little guy in the hands of the rich Beverly Hills lady with the fake rack, who knows what she's doing!

What was that movie I saw, with a crazy Kathy Bates trying to sell squirrels to tourists?

When they didn't buy one, she set them up to drive off a cliff.

On the way down, the tourists saw a sequence of signs reading "You...should have...bought...a squirrel!"

Be careful out there.

The movie was "Rat Race".

The flying squirrels are sugar gliders...they're actually marsupials, I think.

look at how big his feet are already!! he's going to be a big one.

i met this guy in off 101 in nor cal between cloverdale and hopland at this joint called "the rock shop", collector rocks and gems and such. he had a big ol grey squirrel in a cage. he let it out after hours he said.

i asked if its name was "rocky" he said "no" and looked at me all stupid. i said "grey squirrel, like bullwinkle, and the fact that this is a rock shop?" he's all "oh yeah i reckon thats funny, and cute all at the same time" dumb hillbilly rock guy.

that is it! sugar gliders! they are not rodents? damn.

He is NOT a rodent!!! LOL, check this out!
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Oh man, that's a cute little Fuch.

Dude, all that mustard you're feeding him is turning him yellow... ;)

keep the fucher.

He's addicted to mustard! Lookat him gulpin' it down. ;)

What a cute little fucher... :D My girlfriend would love one of those.

Jason,
I know this is terribly off subject (that is, it something can be more off subject than a newly acquired pet baby squirrel named Fuch) but... when we spoke on Tuesday about my most recent Pelican order and you exclaimed that your father is working here in Jacksonville, AL building our CVS... well I went by and met Mr. Jim Porter today - quite a friendly fellow!!!

Yeah, the apple don't fall far from the tree, as I'm sure you noticed from our nearly identical country@$$ accents and similar general personality traits!

He's an awesome guy. Taught me everything I know about carpentry, setting steel, drinkin' and chasin' women. Told not to do drugs and always wear protection. Taught me how to fight, and how to be a man. I love that guy more than words can say. Hopefully this year I'll be goin' home for the holidays.

it must be a male there in that last shot, he's hung like a rabbit...

great toby, you just made me go back to check out fuch's pecker....i am soo gay.

made you look! i gay am i for finding it?

He's doin' alright for a 5 week old midget.

I love the part of the movie where they don't buy a squirrel and she gives them wrong directions... as they fall down the cliff the signs read:

you


should


have


bought


a


squirrel

There is a California Wildlife center in the Valley that can help you with the little guy.

A friend of my wifes took a duck there once.

SmileWavy

Personally I'd make him the office mascott.

C'mon wayne.

yeah wyane, how big could squirrel poop be?

Actually, if you've ever had a hamster, it a little bigger than that. I know because he ***** on me like 4 times yesterday, and nearly ruined my favorite NY Yankess shirt!

OMG...that is adorable...i'll be interested to see if you keep him or he ends-up back with a squirrel family...at least you guys are taking very good care of him. :)

I wouldn't mock the little guy. Here's his big brother....

THAT IS NUTS!!! pun kinda intended. per capita that would be like a pair of bowling balls (pun again) hanging from your groin..

great shot rick.

Heh heh...I have a feeling Zman may be flying overhead. This pic kinda pushes the boundries a bit.

Have a great weekend.

that is one proud looking squirrel! i hope fuchs is a girl. no way a rodent will get famous in commercials with a package like that! big nuts dont sell snickers bars....

I believe opossums are the only North American marsupials, so sugar glider flying squirrels must be mammals.

I could look it up on Google, but then so could everybody else. SmileWavy

Sugar gliders are not native to North America.