Hello everyone I'm completely stumped, someone brought me a baby squirrel (tried to reunite for 24 hours no luck)which going by the darker skin on back , dark peach fuzz all over even the little muzzle has whiskers I'd say a couple weeks old eastern gray but the weight is throwing me off on intake he was only 26 grams ,
but he's not skinny not dehydrated very active the most active baby I've ever seen actually he never sits still, pee clear poop was dark day 1 but now yellow tan.
Today makes day 5 and he is still only 32 grams . He is a horrible eater so I only use a 1/2 cc syringe and mini miracle nipple (the original not new clear) and literally 1 drop at a time he gets 5% of daily weight each feeding.
Right now I am using gme with a little hwc.
I've never in the past 10 years had a gray look so healthy and weigh so little or gain so slowly
I'm estimating 2 weeks but maybe he's either developing fast as far as fur growth , movement and such or could he be a dwarf/ftt and here is another thought but I'm highly doubtful of this possibly a American red squirrel ( we do have reds I can hear them but I've only ever seen one my whole life)
I'm stumped.
Can someone show me a picture of a 2 week old red ?