strdsk
03-11-2021, 12:06 PM
Hello...hope you're well! Question for ya' about squirrel diet. So my 1.5 yeara old gray NR literally overnight does not want his blocks anymore....Henry's healthy. He did this once before last July, we switched to picky blocks, and after that bag we were lucky in that he went back to eating the healthy blocks. The real concern is...he also shuns his carrots/endive/riddicio/dandelions overnight. He's definitely eating/drinking/playing...but VERY picky overnight just like that. Is this indicative of something wrong? I will say that when we got him last year at this time, he had HUGE testicles....then they shrunk. Well....they're back huge again...must be the time of year? I ask because I wonder if his hormones are altering his appetite? He is also playing a bit more aggressively than usual. I know they say tough love....leave ONLY blocks in his house until he eats them....he won't starve...make him eat those before other foods. But there's that fine line of tough love and starving him. The only other real changes we've mad to his cage lately is that we lined his shelves with cloth to aid his little feet from having to bounce around on steel all the time. A week in, we removed the cloth because they absorbed peep and poop...and we didn't want him eating foods off of same shelves to avoid poisoning. I'd say he maybe got bug from eating food off of those pee-poo clothes last week....but he'll eat nuts and fruit just fine....so definitely seems he just got SUPER selective overnight. Finally, both of his ears on very tips have a darker/dirtier look to them apparently overnight as well. Any link to this? Never saw that before. Thanks SO much for all you do!!!!