Originally Posted by
Fabulous_homie
Hi, I have a 4 month old grey squirrel that I found when she was only 2 weeks old. She has a pretty balanced diet, a nice cage and everything’s perfect except her behavior. When I let her out she goes crazy running around and doing squirrel things, which I’m fine with, but she tends to jump on me from the distance. And I mean 7 feet or less away. She doesn’t care where she lands, sometimes she’s done it on my face and It’s becoming a threat because I’m scared to get a mark or lose an eye. When she’s on the ground she tries to climb up my leg which is also very painful as the claws go thru the fabric of my pants. She understands the word no and stops when she’s about to chew on something she’s not supposed to and I catch her, but she doesn’t listen when I tell her not to jump on me. Any advice on how to condition her to stop this?