Hello! I fell into squirrel care about three weeks ago, when a ~5 week old fell out of a tall tree, and mama didn't retrieve her. She's absolutely thriving (squirrel blocks and veggies, starting to wean off of fox valley, no injuries, getting more and more agile and fast every day).
Yesterday, a friend who'd heard about this little endeavor found an injured baby and brought him over. He looks to be slightly older than our first -- I'm completely guessing, but maybe 9-10 weeks? -- and is a bit larger at 240g.
He was found on a sidewalk and pulled himself to under a shrub; unless if he fell or was attacked, but I'm guessing a combo of both. He had a bump on top of his head and possibly a scrape or cut under all of his fur -- little to no blood visible, but he was ruffled there. The bump/swelling has mostly gone down. He also had a touch of dried blood on the tip of his nose. But the biggest issue is his front legs -- he can use them, but they're weak and he's strongly favoring his rear legs. He sort of lays on them and can't seem to grasp food with them, but he can somewhat use them to climb (he got two feet up a log in their shared cage and into their nest box, and he's done some climbing on the hardware cloth walls of the cage). When I just went to retrieve him for a feeding he momentarily grabbed the side of the nest box with some strength. But they seem off... he'll drag the right one and uses the left one sparingly.
He's peeing normally, drinking water and eating formula well (happily!), trying to eat solids (he struggles to bring them to his mouth), and getting along great with our first one. I did notice one milky tear yesterday, and initially gave him a small amount of infant motrin in case the leg issue was related to inflammation related to the head bump issue. I do think the leg issue is improving, but would love to see him able to climb as fast as his little sister and eat as much solid food as she does.
Here are a few videos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9xbntjmnk...0VEnhGlZa?dl=0
Then he just hustled up the log to the nest box, and moved too fast for me to catch it on video! Maybe I just need to keep feeding him and helping him rest, and this will continue to improve. But I wanted to post it in case there's more I can do.