RESCUING AND HEALING THEN RELEASING A BABY SQUIRREL VS KEEPING A BABY SQUIRRELMany of us are afraid of the rodent family. When we see a squirrel that fell out of his nest, whose mother is gone, who is unwell, we may be tempted to sidestep it. But I'm here to tell you that you can step in and help. We don't have to be afraid of bubonic plague in tree squirrels... only GROUND squirrels get it the kind of squirrel FORGERY that is more a dirt burrow chipmunk. A tree squirrel does not have hanta virus, I’m told by experts at the Wild Life station. These maladies only appear in ground squirrels or Chipmunks in holes in the ground and in them, only occasionally.
Knowing it's safe to handle them, I am nursing an orphaned baby squirrel --- Two squirrels actually but I only count the weak one as the other orphaned baby is healthy outside in tree, in his nest, mysteriously without any visiting parents but adapting well. I go there many times a day to feed and stoke him. The other weaker one is in my bed, recovering. They are not brothers. Different nests entirely.
Here’s how it started. While watering my back yard, I noted my young female cat Vanilla watching something with the focus of a diamond cutter acessing the first knock on a hundred karat rock.
In a half inch space between a big arm chair-back and the very tree where the squirrel’s nest happened to be, in a small space where the Cat couldn’t POUNCE was a baby squirrel watching Miss Vanilla right back. JUST as focused.
I reached down to the chair and touched the baby squirrel lightly, It took off in flight, the cat after it. I’d been watering, so the hose was in my hand --- I instantly pointed a REAL BLAST at the cat and I sprayed her no matter where she ran; she desisted from her hunt and starting evading the hose which folllowed her, I aim a pretty good cannon shot. The squirrel used this opp to go back into the hollow tree.
This tree is a lovely live hollow tree, a huge MELIA from the Himalyas, a tree that easily clefts and has a big vacant hole. I Always knew it would attract a squirrel nest due to this vacant space matressed well inside with years of delicate malia leaves with the opening at eye height. You can get your hand into the tree's hole but if you make a fist, you can’t draw hand out. I reached in and a squirrel does a kamakazi feint of a LEAP at my hand (or FACE), whatever was nearer, like ‘I’m gonna sink my teeth in you DUDE." SO I KNEW it was a little boy. And very little, maybe 5 inch long, with a 5" tail added on, but not bushy, too young for that. More like a fingertail. Not an adult. But quelle bravado! Schwartzeneggar squirrel!
After a while, when it was calm I reached in and petted it and he calmed down. I gave him apples cut up, peeled.....and walnut halves... water, petted him alot while he nibbled.
On the second day of this food/petting, he came out to sit on me for a while. I named him COCO as he kept saying CO-CO-Co fast. Coco loves organic walnuts and turns the kernel in his hand as he nibbles. I'm planning to get better, fresher ones soon, as my neighbor Anamaria has a loaded English walnut tree.
Coco likes apple second best, and sprouted almonds (soaked overnight in water and peeled and split in two for easy grasping) best of all. And he loves his water. I put a plastic cup in the bedding near front door of his nest. Sometimes I float apple chunks in it seeing that he has very agile almost human hands.
Coco is so uniquely upbeat and cheery that I amend his name to "Captain Cody Clarke!" The new name fits a strong little individual happy and trauma free for being orphaned so early in life. There are no signs of an adult mother anywhere. Worrying that he’ll get lonely, I wake up earlier, get out of bed to go see him and middle of night, I take a flashlight and even go into the garden at night and pet him while he’s asleep so he should think he’s got a mother and isn’t orphaned and he feels totally loved. And he turns in the nest and sighs and lets himself be petted.
Well, Heaven looked down and said OKAAAYYYY. --- TODAY I’m watering in front yard and kids across street exclaim, ‘look!" I say ‘what’s up?’ they say ‘a sick squirrel'. I run over, see this other one, very faint, of about the same age and immediately take him home and give him water by eye dropper taking care to do it drop by drop when he’s not inhaling so that he does not breathe in liquid and drown. He has to feel the liquid on his tongue. He has no sucking response yet, so it’s very dangerous to feed liquids. With enough liquids, the squirrel falls into a deep sleep.
He’s a little smaller than Cody who’s having a ball and now has a big nut collection buried in his mattress. Cody likes to burrow around in his hoarde, and dig down and find one occasionally and hold it in two human like hands and nibble fast and long. That hollow tree is FILLED with squirrel bedding as luxurious as the a Dutch feather mattress.. AND ORGANIC walnut halves. He’s in heaven in there. It’s like a suite at the Hilton. Large room, living room and bedroom in the back. And kitchen near front door, where I leave his food. A nice big space.
So I’m thinking, Cody shouldn’t be alone. I can heal and revive this new squirrel. So I take the new squirrel, see he’s very very faint, give him water into which I’ve squashed a lot of fresh apple. Absolutely no sucking reflex to the eyedropper, so I’m again careful to give it to him between breaths so it doesn’t drown him.
In the first four hours Carlitos, the new guy’s name ---is mostly unconscious without being rouseable by having ears pinched, hands massaged. He’s in a coma. Out cold. I do treatments on him for four hours without stop. I’m sending all the energy in the universe thru my palms. Phones ring continually I answer nothing, IGNORE them. I let my astrology business go complete to the devil. I'm busy giving light massage, fur backwards stroke, telling Carlitos verbally that whatever horror happened to him that put him in this condition, 12 feet under his nest hole is over, he’s OKAY, etc.
Like all good witches, I decide to use herbs. I put licorice drop extract into orange juice from a freshly picked orange, I took off the tree outside, -- very ripe....having been on the tree for 3 years and that orange is absolute perfection. And I took some peel so its bioflavenoids would penetrate/ enter the juice. I let alcohol of the licorice extract evaporate. Have this very tiny eyedropper from the Bach flower remedy bottle. I give the cocktail. No sucking response yet. I make sucking noise, tch tch tch and massage his cheeks and snout with the dropper in his front tongue and lip position moving it a little but he doesn’t wake up or start sucking. I know I have to continue this drop by drop administration of liquid with real fruit in it, without obligating him to sit up or move. I think total, semi-fetal ‘infancy’ would be his first stage back into the conscious world. No obligations to socialize, just ‘asleep and hopefully nursing’. After a slow drop by drop feeding, I stumble out into sunset, go to the market to get goats milk.
When I came back, Carlitos was awake, and did suck a little more juice. So there’s hope. He’s on the upswing. So more juice with licorice which is an adrenal reviver, good for shock or low blood sugar And OJ for vit C in case infection but I doubt that. No fever, though hands are coldish, his eyes are clear, no mucus, clean breathing. It’s shock and/or starvation/ dehydration.
How Carlito's disaster happened, I cannot know ---I have to assume crows were busy maurauding his nest, his tree top as the damn crows come in greedy, cawing flocks and go ballistic from time to time with excitement... and I wondered what that was about...and maybe he somehow flung himself to his death from this enormous tree rather than be taken by a crow. Like the heroine in "The Last of the Mohicans". Or maybe he got dropped by a crow busy cawing with greed about the morsel she’d plucked like the Aesop story of the Fox and the Grapes.
Who knows what trauma he's in? But he’s ‘resting comfortably’ as they say in the hospital. And each nap makes him stronger. He can stretch and move his legs and hands, he’s not paralyzed. But then he falls back into the licorice stupor. So we’ll have to wait about goats milk for when Cinderefella awakes and he’s strong. And then if he gets well, put him in with Captain Cody Clarke at the Hilton.
I called Wildworks in WLA and asked ‘What do you know about squirrels?’ They told me get pet formula at pet store. As it has more vitamins than milk alone. So I will. My net pen pals told me that they knew what was going on with this squirrel holocaust. Apparently, squirrels are reacting to these contrails all over the world, Chem trails whatever they call them, which compromise immune systems, deliberately intended by genocidal DEEP STATE leaders who are blowing poison on us so that the aged and infirm just croak and the SS Administration doesn’t have to pay out. So, there are squirrels on the internet and they don't KNOW a thing about real squirrels. How about that!
The NEXT day little Carlitos was stirring and moving at times, as if saying "where am I?" Then he'd wake and do a few turns and look around. I started him on warmed goats milk. Between feedings, he really sleeps deeply. Sometimes his eye is slightly open. I close the eye and it comes back open. That makes me think he’s stressed or maybe is fooling me, that he’s in hysterical denial or something. Then I turn him on the other side and that eye is permanently shut. So now he sleeps open eye down. Are squirrels like American Indians? Sleeping with one eye open??
Carlitos’ breathing is normal, so is his heartbeat but he won’t be induced to suck on his eye dropper very often. I’m puzzled. The first day I thought that maybe the alcohol didn’t dissipate out of licorice extract turning that beverage into a screwdriver. He was probably stoned. But the second day he still didn’t take more than a few drops and he’d stop sucking and zone out. So I'm feeling my way blindly.
He sleeps in a towel on my bed. At night, when I sleep, he's on towel layers in a cardboard box on bench at foot of bed. I hold him a lot, stroke him a lot all day. Watch TV with him, talk to him, Let him sleep against my heart. Pray for Carlitos and Captain Cody Clarke, people. Tell God it's the pair of cousins who live on Zelzah Avenue, in Reseda California, if God doesn't know where he should shoot his lightning bolts, one at the Melia tree, one at my bedroom window.
PS IT IS now 2020. The squirrels are well, they both grew into FINE ADULT squirrels and married and had children and I have their descendents running around my orchard to this day.
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