Squirrel Rescue

This afternoon our outdoor cat Koda was having a ball batting what I thought was a mouse around our front yard. After watching through the window for about 10 minutes, I decided to go check it out and find out what it was and why he hadn't killed it yet. He is always bringing us dead mice and moles and is always so proud to have caught them, but for some reason he just wanted to smack this one around and make it try to run away. After having a closer look, I realized that he had a baby squirrel that had fallen from the nest. We are attempting to care for it now so that it can be returned to the wild in the spring. I spoke to a lady whose name was given to me by Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve that knows quite a bit about caring for baby squirrels. So, wish us luck as we bottle feed this little one in hopes of releasing him back to nature. Oh...I almost forgot to mention that he is a flying squirrel. I didn't even know we had those around here!

He is sitting on my cell phone so that you can see how small he is! About the size of a small hamster or a field mouse.