Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
squirrels and caffeine
Squirrels manufacture their own caffeine. As soon as they wake up in the morning, they get hit with a surge of it. This enables them to be so hyper all day.
People do not manufacture their own caffeine. They must start their day with an outside source, to even TRY to keep up with the aforementioned squirrels.
Make sense? I tried to explain this to Butchie after he stole my tea bag (yes, still in cup), and later tried drinking my actual tea.
Friday, November 4, 2011
I was walking down the street after putting on a new shirt; and there is chewed tissue coming out of the right sleeve. Peanuts fly when I shake out blankets. And remember the scene in A Christmas Story with all the toys in the teacher's drawer? I HAVE a drawer like that! Everything I have pulled out of their mouths :P.
random videos
These are from June, 2011, I think? Butchie was smaller, has more red, and also a slightly rounder head/face:
Butchie on the left in the beginning; Joey has the leaves:
Meet the Boys!!
These are just a few of the first pictures of Butchie, taken in March 2011. THe fourth picture is the girl I believe is/was Butchie's Mommy. Butchie was probably at about the three week mark; eyes still closed; very little fur. He was very cold and barely breathing/moving when I found him.
These are some of the first pictures of Joey, taken in March and April 2011. JOey was quite a bit older and was found by a very kind gentleman who called me the next morning after I met him. Rehabbers told me he was probably 8-10 weeks old when I first got him.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
April 10 diary -- videos :)
04-10-2011, 02:02 AM
The boys are doing great
. Bad me, haven't weighed them in two days, but will later today. I have been sucked in to their "What do you mean we hafta sit still in this bowl?! Don't you realise we are STARVING?!?!" It's sad, poor starving boys 
.
Took me abit to sort out videos. Butchie looks more like Joey every day. He is almost 6 weeks now. I have to look at the pictures and videos at what color the fleece blankie is. It's all sorted now so here they are:
Butchie sampling a rodent block
. He REALLY wanted to hold it all by himself , but wasn't quite sure what to do with it
.:
The never ending wind knocked a small branch off the neighbor's tree. Saw it and instantly thought of Joey. Butchie's Mommy and the other squirrels love to nibble this particular tree.; it's a willow of some sort:
I am behind on pictures but will try to get some up soon. Working on getting Butchie to take more at each feeding (he is more then happy to help in this venture, starving, remember??). He was at 6 then 6.5, then 7 yesterday and today I think we will go for 7.5. He took 28 cc's yesterday. Joey took 40, up from 14. Seems every other day Joey likes to mess with me and not want formula 
. Good news is he will drink it out of a bowl. Though sometimes he decides after it's in the bowl he wants to try out the syringes. Next feeding "Why would I eat from a syringe? Put it in my bowl!" 
. Ah squirrels. Butchie, he doesn't care, jhe ust wants it NOW .
With Butchie being at 6 weeks and Joey maybe a month more, what should they be getting each day and how would I work that out? They eat approximately every 5 hours, a little longer at night. Joey does eat other foods as well, but as long as he begs for formula I figure it's fine; according to what I have read here and at other sites he can stay on as long as he wants, right?
I wanted to try the Boo balls, but don't have the baby food or pecans. Any variations that would be acceptable? Could I add pureed fruit like apple or banana? I have the formula and (I think
) proper rodent blocks (picture on previous page). I do have the coconut oil as well as coconut milk.
Oh! Butchie also tried some yogurt a couple of days ago! Licked it off my fingers/thumbs. So cute
. I kinda cheat to get them to be interested in the rodent blocks; I lightly coat them with coconut oil. I give them to Joey in the mornings; he dismantles them quite well, but whether he eats them later I am not sure? . He also dismantled apples at first then would go back and eat them. Butchie also dismantled his block a bit, but he did swallow some I think. What else can I offer him? I give him solids only after he has eaten and it's registered that he has eaten. You know how they run around wildly after feeding, snorting and grunting and still acting half starved? Or maybe that's just my boys? Then a couple few minutes later it hits them "Oh yeah! She did feed us!", and they get all sleepy .
The boys are doing great
. Bad me, haven't weighed them in two days, but will later today. I have been sucked in to their "What do you mean we hafta sit still in this bowl?! Don't you realise we are STARVING?!?!" It's sad, poor starving boys .Took me abit to sort out videos. Butchie looks more like Joey every day. He is almost 6 weeks now. I have to look at the pictures and videos at what color the fleece blankie is. It's all sorted now so here they are:
Butchie sampling a rodent block
. He REALLY wanted to hold it all by himself , but wasn't quite sure what to do with it.:The never ending wind knocked a small branch off the neighbor's tree. Saw it and instantly thought of Joey
. Butchie's Mommy and the other squirrels love to nibble this particular tree.; it's a willow of some sort:I am behind on pictures but will try to get some up soon. Working on getting Butchie to take more at each feeding (he is more then happy to help in this venture, starving, remember??). He was at 6 then 6.5, then 7 yesterday and today I think we will go for 7.5. He took 28 cc's yesterday
. Joey took 40, up from 14. Seems every other day Joey likes to mess with me and not want formula . Good news is he will drink it out of a bowl. Though sometimes he decides after it's in the bowl he wants to try out the syringes. Next feeding "Why would I eat from a syringe? Put it in my bowl!" . Ah squirrels. Butchie, he doesn't care, jhe ust wants it NOW .With Butchie being at 6 weeks and Joey maybe a month more, what should they be getting each day and how would I work that out? They eat approximately every 5 hours, a little longer at night. Joey does eat other foods as well, but as long as he begs for formula I figure it's fine; according to what I have read here and at other sites he can stay on as long as he wants, right?
I wanted to try the Boo balls, but don't have the baby food or pecans. Any variations that would be acceptable? Could I add pureed fruit like apple or banana? I have the formula and (I think
) proper rodent blocks (picture on previous page). I do have the coconut oil as well as coconut milk.Oh! Butchie also tried some yogurt a couple of days ago! Licked it off my fingers/thumbs. So cute
. I kinda cheat to get them to be interested in the rodent blocks; I lightly coat them with coconut oil. I give them to Joey in the mornings; he dismantles them quite well, but whether he eats them later I am not sure? . He also dismantled apples at first then would go back and eat them. Butchie also dismantled his block a bit, but he did swallow some I think. What else can I offer him? I give him solids only after he has eaten and it's registered that he has eaten. You know how they run around wildly after feeding, snorting and grunting and still acting half starved? Or maybe that's just my boys? Then a couple few minutes later it hits them "Oh yeah! She did feed us!", and they get all sleepy .
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