A littler over a week ago, I was driving home and spotted a large squirrel that looked pretty beat up, walking slowly across the street in front of my house. She was a Fox squirrel (I would later find out). Later in the day she went into my fenced back yard and was treed by the dogs (3lb Papillons) . I tried to get her to move along, but she just laid in the crook of the tree chattering, and making angry squirrel noises It almost looked like she was pressing her forehead against the bark of the tree. Took the dogs in and kept them in until the next day when she was gone.
A day goes by and the following morning my husband finds a baby fox squirrel, nose down on the sidewalk by his truck. Its about 40-45 degrees out. It has fur, but it is crawling with vermin and non-responsive. I take it in, warm it up, clean it up and put it in a box to rest. Got some goat milk Esbilac and a bottle and eventually he was drinking his food. Its been 10 days, I haven't seen the mother, and the baby is doing okay, I guess.
He eats & poops, and the fleas are (I think) gone. But occasionally he'll twitch, like whole body twitch. He also seems to hold his head sideways alot, like he's looking up through one eye, and he's not very graceful. I'm guessing he's about 6 weeks old. I'm just hoping he's not carrying whatever was wrong with his momma. Anyone see this type of behavior?