Emssiee
11-24-2017, 06:10 PM
Hi everyone,
I’ve recently released my Adam, who lived in her RC on my backyard for about 2 months. I built her a nestbox which I put high up in my tree. The thing is, I don’t think she knows where is home.. The times that I got to see her and interact with her and feed her is because I walk to the little path behind my house and neighbours houses, and call her name for about 5 mins and she then eventually shows up. Since I’ve released her, she never actually came to my home, where the RC is, nestbox etc. I’m sure she would love to know that she has an insulated nestbox waiting for her in my tree, which she never actually got to see.. The day of the release, I thought she’d go up on my tree and find it, but the second she got out she actually chose to go on the fence and explored the neighbours yard and then found the path and adventured herself in the trees there. I’m just thinking since she didn’t get to venture on my yard, maybe she didn’t register the location in the moment of processing being free?
I tried to attract her by leaving food in her RC, but other squirels would come and take it all. So I stopped leaving food. I also put some of her bedding with her scent in the nestbox and attached a few fleece pieces on the branches of the tree to hopefully attract her from the smell. Every time we meet I try to stand closer and closer to my home to attract her that way but the fence on which she comes from ends half way so she doesn’t really come further than that. I also tried to have her stay on me to hopefully walk with her to there but unless I’m sitting on the ground she won’t stay on me. I really don’t know what to do anymore, this is so frustrating because I’m convinced she doesn’t know and I would love for her to move into the nestbox and be around for me to feed her.. How far can they actually trace smell? Where we meet is actually just a few houses from my house, can she smell her scent this far? I was thinking maybe I do some sort of Hansel & Gretel path with her fleece from the fence she comes from to my yard/her RC but that’s a bit intense lol.. All the neighbours are already worried to why there’s a random girl coming everyday behind their houses and talking to herself out loud.. Ugh.. Any ideas?
I’ve recently released my Adam, who lived in her RC on my backyard for about 2 months. I built her a nestbox which I put high up in my tree. The thing is, I don’t think she knows where is home.. The times that I got to see her and interact with her and feed her is because I walk to the little path behind my house and neighbours houses, and call her name for about 5 mins and she then eventually shows up. Since I’ve released her, she never actually came to my home, where the RC is, nestbox etc. I’m sure she would love to know that she has an insulated nestbox waiting for her in my tree, which she never actually got to see.. The day of the release, I thought she’d go up on my tree and find it, but the second she got out she actually chose to go on the fence and explored the neighbours yard and then found the path and adventured herself in the trees there. I’m just thinking since she didn’t get to venture on my yard, maybe she didn’t register the location in the moment of processing being free?
I tried to attract her by leaving food in her RC, but other squirels would come and take it all. So I stopped leaving food. I also put some of her bedding with her scent in the nestbox and attached a few fleece pieces on the branches of the tree to hopefully attract her from the smell. Every time we meet I try to stand closer and closer to my home to attract her that way but the fence on which she comes from ends half way so she doesn’t really come further than that. I also tried to have her stay on me to hopefully walk with her to there but unless I’m sitting on the ground she won’t stay on me. I really don’t know what to do anymore, this is so frustrating because I’m convinced she doesn’t know and I would love for her to move into the nestbox and be around for me to feed her.. How far can they actually trace smell? Where we meet is actually just a few houses from my house, can she smell her scent this far? I was thinking maybe I do some sort of Hansel & Gretel path with her fleece from the fence she comes from to my yard/her RC but that’s a bit intense lol.. All the neighbours are already worried to why there’s a random girl coming everyday behind their houses and talking to herself out loud.. Ugh.. Any ideas?