Hi there, I found a baby squirrel on my lawn about 3 weeks ago. It was in poor shape. I found it at 5am in the morning, so I'm assuming it spent the night outside. It's mouth was so full of fly eggs, it couldn't even close it. It had numerous small wounds on its body. I held it in my hands as I waited for my dogs to finish and then hurried to get it inside to help it. After fly eggs removal and setting it up in a warming box, it came around. The story goes on and on, but I think it was a new born. When i weighed it the next day, it was only 10 grams. This was after it had started eating and was not so dehydrated.
My problem is that it has a weirdly swollen looking head. It always has since I found it in my lawn. He is slow to grow... At 3 weeks he weighs 43 grams and still is almost completely naked. If I push on his head, it feel squishy. Besides his slow to grow, giant bubly head, and nakedness, he eats, poops, screams, just fine. Any idea on his head thing?!?!