Baby Squirrel

Thursday, we were all outside jumping on the trampoline when we heard a loud chirping coming from our tree . At first we thought it was a baby bird, but then we saw a baby squirrel making his way back up the tree. The next day the baby squirrel came back down and hopped over towards T, who was jumping on the trampoline. The squirrel put his front paws up as if to climb up the trampoline trying to get to T. T hollered in to me and mom beat me out there. The baby squirrel hopped to her and she backed away, keeping her distance until I could reach Mandy on the phone (she's my own personal Bindi Queen of Nature). Once we got the okay, Mom slowed her pace and allowed the baby squirrel to catch up. The climbed up her leg and cuddled up into a ball in her hand. We brought him in and gave him some water from a syringe. Later we got the proper formula and made him a nest. (From what we can tell he was about 4 weeks old). On Sat. we left for College Station for Jacob Rees' baptism, and had to bring baby squirrel (this is his name now) with us. He stayed in his nest until he got roudy, so we got a pet carrier and gave him some room to roam. When we got back home, we let him out to play- but he was not interested at all!