"I came home, and I fed 'em and would go back to work, then come and feed them. My husband said, 'Why don't we put them with the momma rat – she just had babies a week before.'" She and her husband also have some big snakes as pets and raise their own rodents to feed them. Momma Rat, that's her name, took the squirrels into her cave and has been nursing them ever since. "I was so scared she was going to kill them," Tanya said.
"I didn't even want to try this. I'm glad my husband talked me into it. ... It's like she just did it naturally. There was really no thinking about it. Maternal instinct, I guess you could say." The squirrels work out on the exercise wheel, drink bottled water that hangs in the cage and were cute enough to convert Tanya and her family from snake lovers to squirrel lovers.
She said she's going to keep the squirrels. "I don't think letting them go free is a good idea," Tanya said. "We're gonna keep them here and make the room bigger just for them. And keep them with their mom and their sister." It's not quite as perfect as it sounds. The squirrels went to a different mother rat first, and she rejected them. Another problem is the rats are nocturnal – so they run around at night – but squirrels are active during the day. So they have to wake "mom" up to eat.
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4 comments:
Heh, I thought exactly the same thing.
Not only that, but it's illegal in the U.S. to keep wild animals without having the proper permits and licenses. (I.e. wildlife rehabilitators should have gotten the squirrels immediately, would have known how to raise and feed them properly, and then would have been able to release them.) Squirrels are not meant to be pets, and if these folks get caught, they can be fined and the squirrels will be taken away. (Says a wanna-be wildlife rehabber who raised and released a baby squirrel many many years ago.)
Squirrels also inherently go 'nuts' after a certain time frame. It does not matter if you hand raised them, they just turn and need to be released into the wild.
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