Bad food and Good food four girl?

[Harley]

We eat tons of produce and nuts around here so she is HAPPY! But she was running around and got hold of a beetle! YUCK!! But she seems to LOVE them.

Anyway, what specific foods are bad for her?

[lennysmom]

Are you feeding her any type of rodent block? This is an absolute must if you want her to stay healthy! Here is a link to the healthy diet chart for captive squirrels:
https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?44440-Healthy-Diet-for-Pet-Squirrels
Many of us here feed the Henry's healthy blocks to our squirrels - they are specially formulated to meeat a squirrel's nutritional needs in addition to healthy veggies. Nuts should only be given as treats and limited to two a day.
If you are not feeding her any type of healthy rodent block, please do so! If her nutritional needs such as calcium or not met, she could succumb to a very painful and deadly bone disease called MBD.

[Harley]

Are you feeding her any type of rodent block? This is an absolute must if you want her to stay healthy! Here is a link to the healthy diet chart for captive squirrels:
https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?44440-Healthy-Diet-for-Pet-Squirrels
Many of us here feed the Henry's healthy blocks to our squirrels - they are specially formulated to meeat a squirrel's nutritional needs in addition to healthy veggies. Nuts should only be given as treats and limited to two a day.
If you are not feeding her any type of healthy rodent block, please do so! If her nutritional needs such as calcium or not met, she could succumb to a very painful and deadly bone disease called MBD.

Thank you tons! I have never loved an animal so much, even out of my dogs and cats! (don't have those now) She is definitely one of my children and I want her to eat healthy.

[UDoWhat]

https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Harley https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png (https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1217053#post1217053)
Well, they seem to be a drug addiction for her! LOL She doesn't normally become aggressive but if she smells you have nuts in your hands, she will fight you for them. She has never bit me for them but she has bitten other people for them. We have to put them in mason jars to keep her from eating through the bags to get to them. Me and the kids eat a lot of nuts too.

I am re-posting in this thread

Welcome to TSB. You came to the right place to learn about your squirrel's diet. Please realize the seriousness of your squirrel's diet. If she is eating a lot of nuts TubeDriver was absolutely on the money. Your squirrel will die if this is not corrected today. I know she loves nuts but they can and will kill her. Here at TSB we see soooooo many threads where a finder will come on and tell us their squirrel died and they can't understand why. Most of us know right away why. When the owner describes the diet it most always (99.9% of the time) a diet rich in nuts and the wrong food. It is really hard to change a squirrel's diet but change you must if you want to save your squirrel's life.

Please put MBD or Metabolic Bone Disease in the search bar and you will find story after story of squirrels who have died or are dying from MBD. The good news is that this condition can be turned around. IT WILL NOT BE EASY! It is like giving a child cookies and candy to eat for dinner and then you give them raw broccoli and raw mushrooms. I have had many finders bring their squirrel to me after suffering from MBD. I have saved many of them but I have lost too many because it was too late to save them.

Please start the Emergency MBD protocol tonight. You must take all (and I mean all ) nuts away including acorns, if any. I am not trying to scare you. Just trying to help you save your sweet girl. I know you are most likely thinking these people are crazy! Squirrels do eat nuts ....but in the wild their diet is totally different. Please read the following MBD protocol. Also read the many threads about squirrels with MBD that are now in the forum, "All Squirrels Go to Heaven ". Please ask all the questions you can about this killer condition. :Love_Icon

https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/...eferrerid=7651 (https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?32122-MBD-Treatment&referrerid=7651)

[Harley]

Are you feeding her any type of rodent block? This is an absolute must if you want her to stay healthy! Here is a link to the healthy diet chart for captive squirrels:
https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?44440-Healthy-Diet-for-Pet-Squirrels
Many of us here feed the Henry's healthy blocks to our squirrels - they are specially formulated to meeat a squirrel's nutritional needs in addition to healthy veggies. Nuts should only be given as treats and limited to two a day.
If you are not feeding her any type of healthy rodent block, please do so! If her nutritional needs such as calcium or not met, she could succumb to a very painful and deadly bone disease called MBD.


https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Harley https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png (https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1217053#post1217053)
Well, they seem to be a drug addiction for her! LOL She doesn't normally become aggressive but if she smells you have nuts in your hands, she will fight you for them. She has never bit me for them but she has bitten other people for them. We have to put them in mason jars to keep her from eating through the bags to get to them. Me and the kids eat a lot of nuts too.

I am re-posting in this thread

Welcome to TSB. You came to the right place to learn about your squirrel's diet. Please realize the seriousness of your squirrel's diet. If she is eating a lot of nuts TubeDriver was absolutely on the money. Your squirrel will die if this is not corrected today. I know she loves nuts but they can and will kill her. Here at TSB we see soooooo many threads where a finder will come on and tell us their squirrel died and they can't understand why. Most of us know right away why. When the owner describes the diet it most always (99.9% of the time) a diet rich in nuts and the wrong food. It is really hard to change a squirrel's diet but change you must if you want to save your squirrel's life.

Please put MBD or Metabolic Bone Disease in the search bar and you will find story after story of squirrels who have died or are dying from MBD. The good news is that this condition can be turned around. IT WILL NOT BE EASY! It is like giving a child cookies and candy to eat for dinner and then you give them raw broccoli and raw mushrooms. I have had many finders bring their squirrel to me after suffering from MBD. I have saved many of them but I have lost too many because it was too late to save them.

Please start the Emergency MBD protocol tonight. You must take all (and I mean all ) nuts away including acorns, if any. I am not trying to scare you. Just trying to help you save your sweet girl. I know you are most likely thinking these people are crazy! Squirrels do eat nuts ....but in the wild their diet is totally different. Please read the following MBD protocol. Also read the many threads about squirrels with MBD that are now in the forum, "All Squirrels Go to Heaven ". Please ask all the questions you can about this killer condition. :Love_Icon

https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/...eferrerid=7651 (https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?32122-MBD-Treatment&referrerid=7651)


Thank you for taking the time to post in the other thread AND this one. You can bet her diet will be changing! A lot of bad things have happened to me in my life and especially lately and she has become a therapeutic/service animal to me. Funny in a lot of ways... we managed to save her life and she is saving mine. When certain things happen in my life, she has helped me through just by being a wonderful animal that God made.