i think i need to let my squrrel go

[rocky 4 life]

i love him derley and i now he loves me but it just not right to keep him captiv i think i would rilly like to have some one take him and let him live in a safe invierment i live in the woods but we find dead squrrels that have been atacked by other squrrels and dident make it i now he wont find nuts out there and fresh water is it posebul somone can take him like a zoo or somthing he wont suvive out there and i cant let him suffer not nowing where his bed or nuts that he gits ever morning are.. what do i do sorry about the spelling

[FLUFFYTAILNUT]

Without having to go back and look through all your other posts, can you please tell us how old Rocky is? Is HE miserable, or do YOU think he is? What makes you feel this way? Most squirrels that have been pets, you can not just assume they will live happy and safely in the outdoors. I, personally, need a little more info before I can give you an opinion.
:goodpost I agree..Gamma..:thumbsup a little more info..

[TexanSquirrel]

The more you can tell us the better. Is Rocky a grey squirrel?

[rocky 4 life]

ok he's a year old gray squrrel iv bilt a 9 foot tall 4 foot wide cage thats in frount of to big windows he eats monky biskets and rat food along wit a vuriety of veggy i live with my parents in nc but im might be moving i now it elegal and i realize the responsibility and i now yall are fed up with people like me i feel like iv rewound his chance of being wild he loves cat and dogs and i would like to see him again if it do give him away he is a vary happy squirrel but i made a big step yesterday and let him out side for the first lime in a year since he was attack it was great no squirrels where out he had the hole back yard to him self but once again my room is all he nows and i dont think he will be happy where i might be living he gits traumatised very easy i cant change his logs with out him fusing recently hes been biting ower hands that's why i think hes not happy other then that hes healthy and i now hes happy right now i just cant let him go i cant ind if i give him to a rehabilitater thay sead thay will ether let him go or put him down o my god hes my baby and he needs his nuts in the morning and his hammick along with fresh but cold water its all he knows now that i talk about it the more it seams impossible now one can hold him but me and my boy friend or hill attack you so i guess now one will take a mean squirrel ....

[Sciurus1]

Hun, the squirrel is not mean, he is just a wild creature that is confused, being presently trapped between being a pet squirrel, and wild squirrel. He obviously wants out, but there is a right way to prepare him for that transition. I think you really need the help of a rehabber to complete his rehabilitation back to the wild. I know you love him, and am glad you have come to our board to get him that help! If you can PM Island Rehabber, our Administrator, she may be able to recommend a rehabber in your area.

[JLM27]

Oh dear, don't worry so much, maybe. If you are moving, he will move with you. It's not an emergency, and he is clearly your baby, and it is OK for you to feel this way. It will work out.

But if you put him half outside and half inside he will get confused. Are you going to live in a city place with no yard or green? Why do you think he won't be happy where you are moving? Some squirrels on this website live entirely indoors, as far as I can tell. It seems the key thing is to be able to get to a vet if you need to, and have one of those "full spectrum" lights for him.

What's your baby's name?

[rocky 4 life]

he is vary happy now and he is injoying our time to gether out side yes i know hes not mean i just ment he puffers being around me and my boy friand his name is rocky and yes i have a full spectrum light iv been cuming on here for about a year now and you have made it vary clear to me on the dos and donts i live on hatteras island in frisco woods my back yard is vary discreat pleace dont think hes misurbul and i treat him as if hes wild things are noew gitting better for him and hes colming down now that hes gowing out side i pufer now one know about this in my town of dare county i dont have the mony for a fine i just thot i could git a nother opshen other then let im go cold terky we now have an out side cage so i now he wont be attacked when im not here untel then he will be free to rome prase god i let my fears go so he can live a better life thats what we have both been longing for thanks agean for all your help over the years i dont now wat me and rocky would do with out u :thankyou

[JLM27]

Where are you going to move to? Will it not have a woods?

[rocky 4 life]

so i gess im guna figuer this one out on my own :dono

[goodmomofmany]

SOMEONE, PLEASE FIND THIS PERSON A REHABBER IN SC NEAR WHERE SHE LIVES. I would hate to see her let the squirrel go and have it starve.

[Sciurus1]

There are rehabbers in S.C. ; Secret Squirrel, I believe, is in the Northern part of that State? There is Carolina Wildlife Care in Columbia. Just need to know whereabouts in that State this is needed.

[Sciurus1]

I really would ask Secret Squirrel, what she thinks about this, as to what she would recommend for a squirrel like this one, if you have any questions on that. Much actually depends on the amount of human contact this squirrel has had, and whether or not it is presently showing signs of rejecting human contact, such as harder biting, and refusing to be handled, for such are good signs that it is still in the zone where it can be released. If so, it would need to be afforded a pre-release cage to break it's present habituation to humans, in order to wild up to the point where it would refuse human handling. Even a year is not as old as some might think to release a squirrel, if all this is in place, for 6-7 months is really the optimal age at which to begin releases, as I was told by my friend who is a licenced rehabber in Texas, 4 months being just the very minimum age they can be soft released. Fall babies wintered over are usually 6-8 months old, when they are released, and those born in the Spring released at 6-7 months of age, do very well not having to endure the frenzied chasing of the early Summer months. All in all, being older affords a squirrel an advantage, IF they are wilded up, and are fit to go that is!