Mother Squirrel will not carry it back up the tree, she is only calling for it to climb up the tree it's lower legs have a lot of energy and it's squirms around like a worm trying to get up there I have brought it inside several times to clean up the wound that it's getting all over his face from rubbing against the ground and tree bark, each time I also try to feed it Fox valley formula but it won't take it. Today is day two. I left it all day yesterday at the base of the tree for mother to come get it and she's now nowhere to be found and I've brought the baby back inside again to wash its face and try to feed, with no luck.
My assessment is that the spine is broken. The only place on island that humanely euthanizes is only taking by appointment and can't/won't fit me in for a squirrel as an emergency. I'm on my own here.
Do I bring it back outside and leave it to die in a familiar place, brutally mauled by a cat after who knows how long of struggling to get up the tree and failing, or-- the groundskeepers finding it first and throwing it in the trash compactor alive, or do I keep it myself and let it slowly starve itself to death in a warm and safe (from further traumatic injury) but unfamiliar environment?