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1.2 pussy cats
0.1 american bulldog
1.0 Terrier
0.2 Pogona Vitticeps
0.1 Lepidodactylus Lugubris (2 eggs wooo)
1.3 Rhacodactylus Ciliatus
0.0.2 Rhacodactylus Auriculatus
3.4. Eublepharis Macularius
0.1.2 Stenodactylus Sthenodactylus
3.1 Pantherophis Guttatus
1.1 Python Regius

Aww David, she's a doll! Gorgeous!!! And well done you!

Tree rat - Hmmph!!!

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1.0.0 anery corn - Monty (10yo)
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3.1.0 Somali cats (bred by me) Harry, Roscoe, Cadbury, Purrdy (9yo - 13yo)
0.1.0 Siamese cat (bred by me) Luna (short for lunatic!) (10yo)
0.0.15 pond fish - couldn't be bothered to name them!
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not staying:
2.0.0 red squirrrels - released to freedom the 18th April 2008!


And remembering
Leyla - our beautiful sorrel somali, put to sleep aged 16½ to prevent further suffering

hi, have just taken on two baby grey squirrels, not sure how old they are but eyes are closed, feeding on lactol. do you have any advice please
many thanks
matt

Re - mez's comments.........

I suppose the massive reduction of scotch pine trees to make furniture had nothing to do with it then? you cant blame the greys.... they didnt choose to come here.

anyway.... back on topic...

i managed to hand rear my grey squirrel on goats milk alone, and he is doing fine. was nursed every 90mins (day and night) for 3 weeks, after that he lived in my pocket at work and let me know when he was hungry.

my only advice is CONSTANT HANDLING! mine is tame but hates being grabbed. if you can get them used to that you'll have a great time with em.

but if you do get bored the recipe for squirrel pie does clearly state that you need 2 squirrels.

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0.0.0 Ophiophagus hannah
0.0.0 Tropidolaemus wagleri
0.0.0 Bothriecchis schegelei
0.0.0 Atheris chlorechis
0.0.0 Atheris hispida
0.0.0 Aspidelaps scutatus
0.0.0 Aspidelaps lubricus

Yesterdays news is todays substrate.

I want 1... how long you keeping it for??

Well done you. Handrearing is always time consuming but always rewarding. Doesnt matter what animal it is. I handreared a Wild rat pup still pink and she survived reverted to wild and got released.

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1 Blue Tongue OZZY
1 Uromastyx BRUCE
3 Oscillated Skinks
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Mitch my special GSD Gone too soon 22/5/08 We miss you so much

In Fondest memory of Ginny my beautiful old GSD who went peacefully to sleep 8/5/08

RIP Herbie my Blue Persian
RIP Mog my Black/White boy
RIP Izzywizzy my feral girl

Awww...Baby. Awww

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aww so cute what will happen wene its older

Goats milk is good, I think probably better than Lactol, but it's always useful to add a little ABIDEC (baby multi vitamins) and a pro-biotic yoghurt to help the gut flora. The amount is 1 teaspoon of yoghurt and 2/3 drops of ABIDEC to ¼pint of goats milk. Cover it and keep it in the fridge, but throw out what has not been used after 24 hours and make up another batch.

Baby squirrels eyes don't open until they are about 5 weeks, so I presume you are toiletting them after every meal, as this will still need to be done. Their lower incisors erupt at about 3 weeks and this is a good guide to working out how old your kittens are. Between 4-5 wks they'll weigh about 50-60g and they don't wean until they are 7 weeks. However, I have to say that my reds weighed in at 65g when they were 4 weeks old and 85g at 5 weeks old and reds are smaller than greys!

The recommendation by experts who've been doing this for years is that up to 5 weeks they should be fed every 2 hours between dawn and dusk! From 5-7 weeks, every 2½-3 hours and then 7-10 weeks every 3-4 hours.

I hand reared 2 red squirrels last year from 14 days old, but every 2 hours would have been extremely difficult for me to adhere to because of work commitments, so I fed mine every 3 hours, day and night, moving onto 4 hourly when they were 5 weeks old and it worked for them.

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1.0.0 anery corn - Monty (10yo)
0.1.0 miami zig zag corn - Calleigh (4yo)
3.1.0 Somali cats (bred by me) Harry, Roscoe, Cadbury, Purrdy (9yo - 13yo)
0.1.0 Siamese cat (bred by me) Luna (short for lunatic!) (10yo)
0.0.15 pond fish - couldn't be bothered to name them!
www.feorag.freeservers.com

not staying:
2.0.0 red squirrrels - released to freedom the 18th April 2008!


And remembering
Leyla - our beautiful sorrel somali, put to sleep aged 16½ to prevent further suffering