Templeton
10-01-2021, 12:38 AM
Hello all. First off - a huge thank you to everyone who’s helped out here over the last month since finding the little Lady Templeton after Hurricane Ida! Y’all have been incredible!
She is about six weeks old now. *Very* rambunctious! Health-wise, I don’t think I could ask for anything better. She eats all of her formula feedings (FV 20/50) at regular intervals and isn’t bothered to eat more when she weighs in heavier each day. She tears through her Henry’s blocks like there’s no tomorrow (though I’m not sure how much of it she’s actually ingesting - she makes a big mess with those!). Always poking around in her habitat and loves climbing all over us! That being said - she does a great job with all of this *IF* it is absolutely silent. We’ve pretty much had to create a vacuum of sound. As soon as there’s even the tiniest sound, she becomes startled and wiggles into the crook of my arm, or she bolts away from me or, if she’s in her little house, runs to hide under her blankets and seems absolutely terrified. If something does make a sound during a feeding, well, the feeding is over because she refuses food completely after that.
My question, then, is — do squirrels ever acclimate to sounds around the house? It can be something as innocent as turning on a faucet or a door closing on the other side of the house. Any tiny sound and she needs to hide. Is this a growing pain or something that sticks with them forever?
She is about six weeks old now. *Very* rambunctious! Health-wise, I don’t think I could ask for anything better. She eats all of her formula feedings (FV 20/50) at regular intervals and isn’t bothered to eat more when she weighs in heavier each day. She tears through her Henry’s blocks like there’s no tomorrow (though I’m not sure how much of it she’s actually ingesting - she makes a big mess with those!). Always poking around in her habitat and loves climbing all over us! That being said - she does a great job with all of this *IF* it is absolutely silent. We’ve pretty much had to create a vacuum of sound. As soon as there’s even the tiniest sound, she becomes startled and wiggles into the crook of my arm, or she bolts away from me or, if she’s in her little house, runs to hide under her blankets and seems absolutely terrified. If something does make a sound during a feeding, well, the feeding is over because she refuses food completely after that.
My question, then, is — do squirrels ever acclimate to sounds around the house? It can be something as innocent as turning on a faucet or a door closing on the other side of the house. Any tiny sound and she needs to hide. Is this a growing pain or something that sticks with them forever?