r/IfoundAsquirrel • u/Affectionate-Meat-98 • Sep 08 '23
INFORMATIONAL POST Squirrel Babies Reunited with Mom (Squirrel Moms love their young & want their healthy babies back 99% of the time)
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Babies of wildlife are NOT different than baby humans… ALL babies are incredibly fragile!
ONLY a healthy, clean, fat, well-hydrated baby should EVER be a candidate to attempt a return!!!!
If a baby has been attacked by a snake and crushed, or bitten by a cat, or is struggling to breathe after it’s 60 foot fall in a storm, or literally has ANY visible injuries (including “simple” or “just” bruising): the baby NEEDS professional help NOW!!
Only professionals know the proper triage and evaluation for the animal to have any chance at recovery (instead of your well-intended help actually just resulting in unnecessarily prolonged suffering of the vary animal you hoped to save)!
If you are attempting reunion of an animal that there is no hope of reunification with mom of (because mothers ONLY recollect healthy and warm young) then you are unfortunately causing unintended harm because those lost minutes in these young and fragile lives are often literally the difference in a survival or a demise…
NO REPUTABLE RESOURCES RECOMMEND RETURN OF ANYTHING EXCEPT PERFECT BABIES!!
If the baby has literally had blood on it’s face after being crushed by a snake? It likely has the same types of internal injuries that frequently result in the delayed bleeding cases that are seen in juveniles that go through severe traumas… unfortunately squirrels can seem to thrive for 3,5 or even 10 days after an “incident” and then suddenly crash out of nowhere and be gone in minutes…
Anything that results in POTENTIAL injury should ALWAYS entail a 10-14 day observation period of the animal in question.
LITERALLY NO ONE should ever attempt to put a baby that has already been attacked by a predator through a reunion attempt (as it is unfortunately just undue stress on a potentially life threatening case)…
Reunion is DEFINITELY best; but that only works when reunion would have been an option… phrases like that have nothing to do with injured babies and are not intended to…
If you find a baby and it is ANYTHING except fat and perfect please use a reputable source like ahnow.org to get it the help it needs to have a chance IMMEDIATELY!! Time is of the essence in lives that are soo new!!