Saving baby red squirrels

Some time ago we had made a small post about the time we rescued three baby red squirrels.

Since then we have quite a few requests for more pictures. Well we can do that ...but we can also show a short video.

First a brief reminder of what happened.

We were walking in the woods near the river Gelt and came across 4 baby squirrels which had, so it seemed, fallen from their dray.One was dead but the other 3 were just stunned. So we put them in our pockets and took them to a friendly neighbour who is great with animals.

He built the cage below and fed them on bananas. Unfortunately one sickened and died but the other two , with help of some antibiotics from the vet lived and grew to be healthy beautiful red squirrels.Below the video there are more pictures

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So next time you travel up to Northumberland spare a thought for these beautiful squirrels.