Today a baby squirrel came into our garage and just stayed there. When I picked her up she climbed onto my shoulder and stayed under my jacket. I'm guessing she is about a month or little older - based on looking at old photos of squirrels I rehabbed to guesstimate her age. She appeared quite skinny, but fur looked really good and so did she. I put her down on the ground outside, but she stayed by me.
I have a squirrel I released back in 2018, Holly. I have another topic regarding Holly's babies born without ears/deformed ears. Anyway, Holly had babies sometime mid March and I had thought she had them in the log that is in the old release cage that we have. Although I'm not sure what happened to her babies or if they are in the log - that is a whole other story in my other topic.
I may have done something completely wrong and I'm really upset with myself. We didn't have items to make the goats milk formula (posted on your website under the esbilac problem link --- thanks for this!). Then I saw Holly and I thought maybe she would adopt this little one. I put her on a branch and Holly came and smelled her and touched noses, the little one was just sitting there and almost appeared to try to sleep, eyes were closing. So I went to the log and set the little one at the hole of the log and she went in. My concern was she would be a bit older than Holly's babies, if they are there and would Holly adopt her in?
Holly saw what I was doing. I gave Holly a Henry's block and asked her (sure she had no idea what I was saying) to please take care of this little one. Then Holly left and last I looked Holly didn't go in the log. I will check again when it gets darker. Now I don't know what to do, I can't reach very well into the log, because the hole is quite small so that predators can't get in - I guess I could be a predator . I can feel in a little and felt warmth, maybe Holly's babies or maybe this new baby I let go in there. Oh man, I hope I didn't do the wrong thing.
My husband went to the store, so now I have all the ingredients, but what should I do. Do I wait until morning and if Holly isn't there tonight or tomorrow morning, should we disassemble the log to get this new baby out so I can try to feed her? Do I stop messing with nature and let it be? I'm so afraid if this new little baby needs to eat, she may not come out and die in the log - which will be my fault.
Here are photos of the release cage and the log where Holly's nest is.