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| Name: |
Thelma and Louise
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Age: |
Four and a half months old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Southern Gray Squirrel
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| Home: |
Mobile, Alabama, USA
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My
pets are two gray squirrel girls. Their names are Thelma and Louise.
I got them on September 2, 2002, Labor Day. They had fallen out of their
nest at my aunt's house and she was unable to leave them on the ground
long enough for their Mom to find them cause she has a bunch of cats
that would've ended up getting them. So she called me. When I got them,
they were about two weeks old. They didn't have their eyes open yet and
were just about naked. At first I wasn't sure if they were baby rats or
squirrels. I obtained a lot of the information on how to care for them
off of the Internet and emailed a couple of people about them also. Some
of the information that I found out, always give the babies water first
to re-hydrate them, never start them on milk right away. Also, they do
not generate their own body heat so I had to keep a heating pad under
them, of course they were wrapped up in a bunch of T-shirts on top of
the heating pad. The first night I was afraid that they wouldn't make
it, just cause they were so young and tiny. But they made it the first
night, second night, first week and now over four months later they are
still with me. They are a ball to play with, I let them run around my
room and when they get startled or scared at something they run back to
me, the mother. It's hard to get them both in a picture together now
that they're gown and healthy. But the one on the computer is Thelma,
she loves to venture out into new territory! Louise is more conservative.
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