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Alcippe
09-13-2011, 09:43 PM
Some of you are familuar with my NR, Weezie. She is approx a year and half old. She stays in a large cage during the day while I am away, but I always let her out into her room first thing when I get home from work. Well I had some extra things to do after work today and wasn't able to try to let her out until after her bed time. (It is not uncommon for this to happen about once a week) She was snuggled up in her critter cube but poked her head out for me to love on her. I loved on her a bit and she decided she wanted to come on out and hang out with me a while. So I brought her into the kitchen with me while I checked my Facebook and what not. I put some dried fruit out and she ate some. Everything seemed to be going fine, when out of nowhere she attacked my thumb, bit it and actually broke the skin. I shooed her off, of course raising my voice. She went to my legs and then attacked again, she even got a claw in my face.
She has never acted like this before! I do have two babies that I am raising, but I hadn't handled them since 5 o'clock and this was close to 9. I'd washed my hands several times, ridden horses and ate dinner in that time. I wasn't wearing anything any different than normal. Could she be mad about the babies, or in heat, or just cranky from being woken up? I don't know, but I can't have her attacking me like that.
Any suggestions? Its kinda breaking my heart right now...

pappy1264
09-13-2011, 09:53 PM
I may be wrong, but sounds like hormones and she is wilding up. I'm sorry this happened. Hopefully I am wrong, and it was a passing thing. Hopefully others will chime in.

stepnstone
09-13-2011, 09:58 PM
My NR always gives me an attitude whenever I have to be gone past her norm. She gets "rough" with me but it's the wife who gets bit whenever this happens. Even, if the wife is home with her! I get the attitude for being out, wife gets punished. :dono

Alcippe
09-13-2011, 09:59 PM
I may be wrong, but sounds like hormones and she is wilding up. I'm sorry this happened. Hopefully I am wrong, and it was a passing thing. Hopefully others will chime in.


I guess I figured once we got past a year and spring that this time just wasn't going to come. I mean if she is wilding up, then I will work on a soft release. It will absolutely break my heart, but it was always my intent when raising her that she would be a wild, she just never got "wild". She had some development problems and was a late bloomer, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised if she really is wilding up at a later age that what I would have expected. I just have to figure out a way to do it where she won't approach or hurt anyone. She seems to be afraid of anyone other than me though.

Alcippe
09-13-2011, 10:02 PM
My NR always gives me an attitude whenever I have to be gone past her norm. She gets "rough" with me but it's the wife who gets bit whenever this happens. Even, if the wife is home with her! I get the attitude for being out, wife gets punished. :dono


Weezie and my hubby are afraid of each other so I am the only one she has anything to do with. It just seemed odd that she wanted to get loved on, eat and hang around before just losing it. I mean I even was getting kisses and everything when she first woke up.

stepnstone
09-13-2011, 10:22 PM
Weezie and my hubby are afraid of each other so I am the only one she has anything to do with. It just seemed odd that she wanted to get loved on, eat and hang around before just losing it. I mean I even was getting kisses and everything when she first woke up.

It has taken my wife the best part of a year to get my girl to bond with her and she has... to a point. She is very attached to me. So, if anything with me is out of her norm, the wife gets blamed. :jump

Adventurista
09-13-2011, 10:47 PM
I guess I figured once we got past a year and spring that this time just wasn't going to come. I mean if she is wilding up, then I will work on a soft release. It will absolutely break my heart, but it was always my intent when raising her that she would be a wild, she just never got "wild". She had some development problems and was a late bloomer, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised if she really is wilding up at a later age that what I would have expected. I just have to figure out a way to do it where she won't approach or hurt anyone. She seems to be afraid of anyone other than me though.


Why is she NR? Will that impact survival if she is released?

Alcippe
09-14-2011, 06:33 AM
Why is she NR? Will that impact survival if she is released?

She was a lone baby and was a late bloomer so she got handled a lot. By late bloomer I mean she was behind where a normal squirrel should be at certain milestones. She couldn't hold her own body heat when I would take her out of her cage with the heating pad when she should have, she didn't eat solids at the stage that she should have, she even didn't start going to the bathroom without being stimulated when she should have. We of course grew very attached to each other and she just never "wilded" up and I just didn't feel comfortable with releasing her when the time came that she should do a soft release. I've raised and released 3 others since Weezie came along, one even had some possible brain injuries (which improved after the use of Vetri-DMG). They acted like squirrels that would/could be wild. The same is true with the two I am raising now even though they are 5 and 7 weeks old, they act like squirrels. Weezie was just different.
So she doesn't have any injuries, MBD issues or anything. From all outward impressions she appears to be a perfectly normal squirrel. If I were to go towards a soft release, I would still provide food and water for her in my yard (like I do for rest of the neighborhood...lol), so its not like she would be left to totally fend for herself. Also I should add that if I were to go with the release option, it would be a well thought out decision, not made overnight. ;]