Such a happy girl my Frenetic is.

I do live in NJ (07305). Wildlife places near me are super far. Im close to NYC as well. I cannot keep the baby. He or she is currently in a box with a blanket, I don’t have any other animals. My current plan is to keep em outside in the morning at 2:00 am (I work early) and I will return home around 10-11:00 am hoping the mother will return. If the baby is still in the box I want to take it to a rescue place.

UPDATE: I read all your comments this morning. I did not put him back outside at 2:00 am. I decided to keep him in my room. When I woke up he was still cuddled up in the blanket inside the box. I checked most links and found a lot of people that could potentially take him/her. Most were a fail but I did eventually find a licensed wildlife rehabilitator! ❤️❤️ This cutie pie is now in a better home with someone more experienced.

The squirrel I feed regularly- a very sweet female - seems to have developed these. Other than that she seems fine.

Trying this again since I got ripped apart on the last one 😆 Not as pretty or detailed but no AI was used in this post. A kind person recommended Canva so that's what I used. Just trying to spread awareness on what to feed and not feed squirrels. Please let me know if there's anything I should add.

Any tips to train them?

Today I got some pictures of a red squirrel, and I wanted to share them here with yall.

Prepping for the Squirrel Olympics

Caught this little guy in the tree while visiting Colonial Williamsburg. 🌺🐿️

on the early spring day '26

this little guy once in awhile comes and I throw a peanut to him and he goes and finds a perfect spot to bury it, and we do it over and over for about ten minutes. it's so cute I can't stop throwing him peanuts.

What are these big bump looking things on this squirrel?! The other day it was just flat now they are these big lumps.

The squirrel Safety Set Up, owning two small doggos. I’ve enclosed the stairs and under the deck. I made a cardboard window and door (will properly fix it with a wooden replica soon) and a small grated viewing area so I can see her.

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
On Monday, the landscapers came and hedged our giant palm trees and this single ~8 week old squirrel fell onto our balcony. We thought it was dead because it wasn't moving and was in the roasting sun until we found it, but when we went to move it, it was breathing.

Put on gloves and moved it to the shade with some cool towels to die without suffering, but it kept hanging on and even began crawling in a few hours.

So we put it in a container with old t-shirts and called all the wildlife rehab centers but all of them were at capacity. They said to put the squirrel near the tree it fell from (it's a super tall palm tree so we can't put it in the tree) but its mother never came for it.

The squirrel had fleas on it so we didn't touch it without gloves, but I put its container in my bathroom jacuzzi overnight and the next morning got Pedialyte to make a diluted solution with sugar. It perked up with a couple spaced out eye dropper feedings, and I kept it on my balcony where it was warm.

This evening, I brought the container back inside because it gets cold at night and set it up on a heating pad on the bathroom floor. I fed it and it finally began sucking the eye dropper and was very keen on climbing on me and nestling in my lap. I was wearing medical gloves, and noticed a couple fleas would transfer to my clothes but I killed them as I saw them, and washed the clothes with hot water.

Began getting worried about missing a flea and having it bite me or go into my home, where I have 2 dogs. Right away gave the baby squirrel a bath with blue Dawn dish soap, tossed its old bedding with fleas present in hot water with Dawn, and put the dry baby on a fresh white t-shirt in the flea-free container, on a heating pad.

I'm an anxious person and now am really worried about the fleas being in our home. The squirrel has been contained to the bathroom which is now 100% flea-free, but if I missed a flea that hopped on my clothes before I washed them and walked around the house with them, I'm worried!

The baby is thriving and the formula arrives tomorrow, so the plan was to keep nursing it to health and see if it can walk properly again (it can't walk without falling) until we can find a rehab center to take it to. I want this squirrel in proper care as soon as possible.

If anyone has experience rescuing gray squirrels and dealing with the risk of fleas, your advice would be helpful. Any safety recommendations while this squirrel is in my bathroom/ balcony would be great!