When is the right time to release?
Hello again fellow squirrel parents!
I am raising my first gray squirrel babies. Brother, Bean, and sister, Nugget. Beautiful black sweeties.
We live in Northern Michigan, where the winters are pretty hard. We found the babies on October 26th, and their eyes opened on the 28th. They are now 9.5 weeks old-ish. My husband simply won't believe that we can't release them this Fall. I have tried to explain about lack of food storage, lack of knowledge about surviving the cold, and the difficulty they will have defending themselves since they are not yet full grown, but he thinks that I just want to keep them. Believe me, I love them dearly, but am not looking forward to having them all winter, which is pretty darn long around here. It takes me an hour and a half each morning to clean/refresh their cage/feed them/yaddi yaddi. Definitely a labor of love. I am looking forward to being able to sleep in again! Ha ha!
So would you all PLEASE give me factoids I can use to convince him that keeping them is the only way to give them a chance of survival in the wild? I'm tired of arguing about it. I will be forever grateful!
Bean and Nugget thank you!
Rabs
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