Daisy and Marvin

A couple of weeks ago, we received a baby squirrel, who we named Daisy. She was about 5 weeks old, so we had to feed her formula around the clock for a few days, but then she began to eat some solid foods too, like nuts and rodent block. A couple days after we got her, someone brought us another squirrel that was a little older, named Marvin. She had raised him for three weeks, and knew he needed to be released soon, but didn't know exactly when or how. So, we put him in our larger cage to let him run around until we can release him.

It's important for these little squirrels to learn how to be a squirrel, and not that they are people, so we always have two together if possible. So, we decided to put the two of them together, even though we were a little worried because Daisy is smaller than Marvin.


It's hard to see in this picture, but Marvin in in his box on the right, peeking out the back left corner into the other box that we set up for Daisy, who stayed inside at first. Not much happened other than a few peeks at each other the first day they were together. By the next morning, though, little Daisy had taken over Marvin's box! So much for being worried about her, she turned out to be the dominant one. After a couple of days they got used to each other and now they use the same box and play together all the time. Daisy is the pesky little sister, always running around, even hiding under the towels to surprise Marvin. We'll keep the two in their cage for another month or so until they can be released.