BABY SQUIRREL HELP ITS URGENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

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Question by John: BABY SQUIRREL HELP ITS URGENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
well my cat found a baby squirrel and brought it to me and it was alive with not ujurys accept for a scratch or two so we called the wild life service and they said we can keep a little intill its healed and we liston’d to its intructions but now its dehydrated and looks like its diing and won’t drink what do i do and also we have a dehydration formula for squirrels and we keep feeding it that but its not working!help!

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Answer by Kyla
Take an eye dropper and force its mouth open. It sounds horrifying, but it will save the baby squirrel.
Best of luck :(

Answer by StellaLove08
Orphans that have been without their mother will be suffering from chill and dehydration. They must be thoroughly warmed first, and then, although they are starving, they must be given warmed rehydration solution before any milk formula is offered. Their dehydrated little body is simply unable to digest food (i.e. the milk solids in formula) and if given formula or other food before they are rehydrated it can kill them, or cause debilitating diarrhea. Pedialyte is a rehydration solution made for human babies, and is available in drug stores – it often comes fruit flavoured, but if you can find the unflavoured kind that is best for wildlife babies. It should be heated to body temperature and offered frequently: every 30 minutes to babies that will take only a small amount, or every 2 hours to those that take a larger amount. Feed only Pedialyte for the first several feedings – as much as the baby wants until it is rehydrated and producing lots of light yellow urine when you stimulate it. Stimulate it at each feeding using light feathery strokes.
Feed with a syringe!

To warm the baby:
Use a soft cloth to pick the baby up. Wrap it up in the cloth, snugly, head and all, and let it calm down and get warm by holding it in your hands. You want it completely warmed up, to your own body temperature. Mother squirrels do not seem to recognize a baby as their own if its body temperature is not normal, and babies cool down quickly once they lose the insulated protection of the nest (of course, this applies especially to spring litters when outside temperatures can be quite cold).

If there is more than one baby, or it is very cold you will want to put them in a small box with several layers of soft cloths while they warm up. Make sure bedding is non-ravelling since wiggly little animals can quickly become strangled in threads or holes. Provide external heat by setting the box half-on, half-off a heating pad set to low, or put a hot water bottle well-wrapped in a soft cloth in the box beside them so they can snuggle against it. Make sure there is enough room in the box for them to wiggle away from the hot water bottle (or to the part of the box not on the heating pad) if they get too hot. Cover them over, head and all, with soft cloths. Close the box securely since even tiny babies may escape, but make sure to punch breathing holes in the top. Place the box in a warm, dark, quiet place and check them often, every 10 or 15 minutes, while their body temperature returns to normal (your body temperature).

This is what I could find…hope I could help you :)

Good luck with the baby <3

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