Originally Posted by
Bella's Mom
I raised and recently released two gray squirrels. They are siblings. Nugget is the girl and Squirt is the boy. Twelve days ago the soft release process was completed and I opened the portal to freedom on their release cage. Nugget is doing really well. She is so happy in the trees! She generally stays around home, comes and goes from the RC throughout the day, and comes home every night to sleep in her nest box. Squirt has never come back to the RC to sleep and it's been eleven nights now. I haven't even seen him once in the yard or around anywhere since their release. I am so worried about him! I am home all day and night every day and watch the cage and the yard like a hawk! I love them so much and I am worried sick about Squirt. It poured rain today for the first time since their release and he didn't even come back then. Is this normal for a squirrel to not come back to the RC at all? I'm so terrified something has happened to him! I am literally being kept awake at night every night with stress and worry about him.