Do Mother Squirrels Eat Their Babies. Then the squirrels with their very sloppy eating habits, attracted roof rats which are very common in north texas where we lived. Our colony manager does not breed mothers who eat their young more than twice, because he feels that if they do it twice, there is a problem with the mother, assuming other breeding pairs in the same room are not doing this.
Why do squirrels throw their babies out of the nest?
One of the actions the mother squirrel performs while the baby squirrels are dependent on her is to transfer them from nest to nest. These spiders eat their mothers' dead bodies. Once developed, pups leave the nest and begin to forage for nuts, grains, and berries. Realizing we were witnessing a mama squirrel moving her babies to a new home, i hurried and got my camera.