Wild squirrel with eye injury?

[tmarie15]

Thanks TMarie! Please tell Chunk that I said hello and Sadie too! I looked at Sadie's photos and I'll just give my opinion on the pregnancy/babies question. This is the time when babies can be expected but still relatively early! I do suspect, however, that Sadie has given already given birth and is nursing babies. The reasons for my believing this are that Sadie's abdomen does not seem particularly enlarged as it would ordinarily be if she was pregnant and the fur surrounding her nipples seems somewhat separated from around the nipples and flattened and matted somewhat. For squirrels who are not lactating and feeding babies, the fur around the nipples tends to appear as fur anywhere else and is pretty much fluffy rather than flattened or matted.

I feel the same way you do about watching Squirrels! I never tire of doing so! They are fascinating little creatures!

Regards,
SamtheSquirrel

I will absolutely tell them you said hello! ◡̈
I’m hoping Sadie’s babies will soon make their way over! Turns out I have some photos of her from mid October and her nipples are showing there too! I’m not sure how I didn’t notice back then!
Unfortunately, it looks like you were correct about Chunk’s eye being infected. I was able to get a closer look at it with the sun coming back out and you can clearly see the fluid. I’ve been trying to get the Ofloxacin drops in again, but it only seemed to work out that first time, now it just goes on his fur! Not sure if it’d be easier to try some of the Terramycin on a q tip and at least get some in the tear duct area. This poor guy, I feel awful for him!