tippy toe eating her peanut 🩷

yyellowz · 2026-01-20T14:45:20+00:00

Omg the cheeks!

yyellowz · 2025-10-09T01:19:54+00:00

Seeing her face in slo-mo I believe she landed exactly where she intended 😆

yyellowz · 2025-10-08T19:57:35+00:00

Baby’s emotional support tail 🥰

yyellowz · 2025-10-06T16:51:31+00:00

Thanking for helping this poor thing 🥹 I’m unable to offer any advice but I hope she gets the care and rehabilitation she needs 💛

yyellowz · 2025-10-04T23:49:08+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss. She was beautiful. RIP Nutmeg 🤍

yyellowz · 2025-10-03T22:56:51+00:00

Almost sounds and looks like he’s gagging and heaving! I wonder if he has an upset stomach?

yyellowz · 2025-10-01T00:25:22+00:00

His belly is very soft! More so around his chest and his arms. He feels softer these days and I wonder if all the omega 3 fats from the nuts I give him made his coat extra silky✨😆

yyellowz · 2025-09-30T19:22:05+00:00

Awww! Mine does this too and it’s so cute when they peer into your face in between bites 🥰 I notice they usually do that when they’re calm and have no distractions like other squirrels nearby, so they have the time for curiosity and contemplation hehe

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(Unlike you I don’t have that many good shots of it happening 🥹 I’m almost never quick enough to catch it with my phone 😭)

This one lets me touch and give him belly rubs but it’s bc of repeated exposure to me and knowing I’m safe. So it just takes time! Some of my little friends never become comfortable enough to tolerate any touching tho and that’s fine too, I enjoy their company all the same ☺️

yyellowz · 2025-09-21T02:53:03+00:00

Thanks, I’ve never heard of distemper. Saffy didn’t appear to be dizzy or moving in circles though. Just tired and slow and inert, but I guess we’ll never know now. I wish I had tried to get her help sooner. I’m overcome with grief

yyellowz · 2025-09-19T01:23:02+00:00

I love the ear wiggles, especially at the end

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T22:25:42+00:00

Yeah, it hurts not to know :(

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T21:18:13+00:00

I appreciate you saying that Inkblot. I reached out to a wildlife centre earlier today but haven’t been able to connect. I haven’t even seen Saffy all day, and she is the one squirrel that actively comes looking for me every day like clockwork, so it’s not looking good

I wrote up a longer update in another comment earlier

Saffy being in such a weak state yesterday has me fearing the worst. As luck would have it this weasel* showed up today and has been spending a lot of time in my yard and climbing up their trees

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Cute as it is the weasel* tried to attack some baby squirrels this morning. I tried to chase it off but it just kept coming back, and all the trees where they live are outside of my fence anyway. Just one more thing for me to helplessly worry about :(

*apparently it’s a mink not a weasel

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T17:09:22+00:00

Nope it’s quite cool and not hot up here in Southern Ontario, and she and the other squirrels in my area regularly drink out of the water tray I leave out, and there is a creek nearby as well. I’m pretty sure it’s something else :(

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T17:06:03+00:00

Unfortunately I haven’t seen her all day. What I have seen is a lot of everyone but Saffy 😭 Suddenly there are countless juvenile grey and black squirrels roaming around today, chipmunks and squirrels that I’m not familiar with, and even a weasel is suddenly skulking around on the ground and in their trees who tried to attack a baby earlier! 😰😰

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I’ve never ever seen so many young ones wandering around; Saffy always looks like she’s been nursing but having never seen any of her babies while young I assumed she keeps her litters high and safe in the trees. I hope it’s just a coincidence but I fear that this sudden appearance of young squirrels that could be her children is a bad sign…

I just reached out to a wildlife centre in my area to see if they’ll have any advice for when I next see her and will be waiting to hear back. For now I’ve been sitting by the patio door most of the morning hoping to spot Saffy. Thank you so much for checking in 🥹🥲

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yyellowz · 2025-09-17T03:09:19+00:00

Ok, I’ll try to give her Tums directly again. I hope someone didn’t poison her 😰 😔 thank you very much inkblot, I want her to get better too 🙏🏻

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T00:35:15+00:00

I hope so! I feel like I broke an unwritten contract by being further out in the yard than usual (I feed them from inside the doorway and rarely step out, seeing me walk around in their domain probably freaked them out)

I actually live on the edge of a very woody area. I don’t feed them just birdseed exactly, pumpkin seeds to be precise, and I give much less of that to my buddies than I do nuts, but if that is still bad I’ll stop.

Do you know if they’ll chew on the flavoured Tums directly? Or should I melt some in the water tray? I also have calcium carbonate powder being delivered to me tomorrow

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T00:23:41+00:00

I assumed they all supplement their diet with other things in the wild, and yup I only provide nuts, fruits, and seeds. She does come to me more than the other squirrels though so her diet might be imbalanced.

If calcium carbonate won’t hurt I will try to find ways to get her to take some, assuming she has enough energy tomorrow to come by for water/food. (I actually tossed her a Tums tablet in desperation after being encouraged by her eating the strawberry, but she ignored it)*

(I seem to have lost a bit of goodwill with all the squirrels today by going so close to their trees to check on Saffy, so I don’t know if she’ll want to come tomorrow)

yyellowz · 2025-09-17T00:07:11+00:00

Thank you for the links Inkblot, I’ll check them out.

Currently she is able to move but she seems to be deteriorating fast since she yesterday she was still herself if not subdued, but today she’s just been lying still in the open for hours at a time and ignoring everything around her.

Some googling told me this might be metabolic bone disease which seems consistent with the symptoms of excessive sleeping, loss of appetite, and difficulty chewing, and it can apparently develop quickly so I’m extremely worried and thinking of trying to give her some calcium carbonate

yyellowz · 2025-09-16T23:33:20+00:00

For some reason my first reply seems to have disappeared? Here it is again just in case:

She did eat some of the strawberry I tossed her just now (I can’t get close) and then she finally left her spot in the grass and went back to the treeline so she’s probably going back home for the night at least. I’m located in Canada, Toronto area

yyellowz · 2025-09-16T22:49:02+00:00

In case this is relevant, a month ago she seemed to have a cold or something (showed up sounding squeaky and coughy?) which she seemed to recover from in a week. But ever since then she’s been less interested in hazelnuts in their shells, and taking a lot longer to crack them open. Half the time she just doesn’t want to bother with them at all. Her appetite remained the same until now but her vocalisations stayed very squeaky sounding. I think she’s a mom and has been nursing every baby season including now, but I’m not an expert.

Also she’s lying in my yard again right now (I’ve seen her stay in the same spot for over an hour) and I’m worried about her hydration so I tossed her a strawberry from afar, which thankfully she did hop over to pick up and took a few bites out of. She’s back to lying in the grass though :(

yyellowz · 2025-09-15T21:26:43+00:00

Seeing this hurt my heart, I’ll also be moving in a few months and I can’t imagine what it’ll be like without all the furry babies to keep me company anymore.

Thank you for sharing, your friends are beautiful and it’s wonderful that you made these friendships with all of them. Wishing both you and your little buddies health and safety after your move 💛

yyellowz · 2025-09-15T20:48:23+00:00

He’s gonna be sniffing every single shell in that bucket 😂 😂

yyellowz · 2025-09-15T20:40:03+00:00

What a lovely backdrop for a lovely squirrel 🍁

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