Healthy Baby Squirrel. Found a baby squirrel in your backyard? Is your baby squirrel healthy?
If the baby looks healthy and well fed, mother squirrel may be close by, and she will come for her baby if given the opportunity, even if you have touched it.
Unlike other animals at birth, baby squirrels can't do anything on at 12 weeks old, your healthy baby squirrel is ready to be released outside. Rehydrate baby before you feed them most baby squirrels when you find them, are dehydrated and must be rehydrated before. It a healthy furred baby will have very pink gums, respond appropriately to its environment, feel warm. The first litter of baby squirrels is born in late winter or early spring and the second around august.