Quick back story:
Saw squirrel fall out of tree while I was in my backyard, figured his mother would come rescue him and went back inside. Came back outside nearly 5-6 hours later, he is still there, but now he is covered in dirt and bugs and almost looks like he is being eaten, but still squirming. I couldn't let him get eaten alive by bugs... Starting googleing stuff and wound up here. I currently have 6 other windows with squirrel info trying to learn as much as possible as fast as possible with what to do to help this guy. Before now I knew pretty much nothing about squirrels other than they like acorns.
I've got kind of a grasp of what I should do with him but I just want to get more detailed instructions because I don't want to do anything wrong. He is so tiny and fragile I don't want to hurt him...
He is really small, pink with no fur, eyes are not open. He has some small cuts on him and what looks like a bug bite. His skin is smooth to the touch, it doesn't feel sticky or anything (I think I read somewhere that it is supposed to feel sticky?). I tried doing that thing with the skin on the neck with him very gently and his skin doesn't tent but I know he has not had anything to drink in probably 7 hours or more.
When I first picked him up, I washed the dirt and bugs off of him with warm water and a little water syringe and started google'ing. Since then I've filled a ziplock bag with warm water, put it in a Tupperware, covered the bag with a shirt and sat him on top of it and covered him up with a sock.
When I first washed him off he was moving around a lot and making really low squeal noises. He looks like he is asleep now on the towel.. Oh he just squealed again as I'm typing this.
It is 2:30~ AM right now and I am unable to travel anywhere until morning, at least 6 more hours, so until then I can only use things around my house to care for him.
What should I do now? Make this pedialyte concoction and try to feed it to him slowly 1 drop at a time? Or use regular water? Is my syringe too big? Just keep him warm until morning when I can take him to the vet and/or get the pedialyte?