# What does a baby squirrel eat?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-baby-squirrel-eat/670929 "2013-10-10T22:34:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-baby-squirrel-eat/670929/21 "2013-10-11T03:06:03Z")

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> [@Zsofia](#):
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> In my experience it does not take a post-mortem to tell whether a young squirrel is a boy.
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> I’m just sayin’, they be swinging some pipe. Batting practice. The Big Lebowski really ties the room together. If you know what I mean. (They have GIANT PENISES.)

That made me laugh really hard. Maybe it wasn’t a little wang, maybe it was a nipple. I dunno, it wasn’t particularly huge, it was just singular in nature in the right place…

My experience from little wild critters is they don’t like being flipped over and examined… so I sort of waited till the teeth would no longer be an issue… 😃

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**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-baby-squirrel-eat/670929/22 "2013-10-11T22:00:39Z")

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Poor little guy ☹

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**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-baby-squirrel-eat/670929/23 "2013-10-11T22:16:29Z")

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Definitely a cutie, sorry things didn’t turn out well. But good on you for taking care of him.

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**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-baby-squirrel-eat/670929/24 "2013-10-11T22:43:25Z")

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Over here we call them tree rats. They are bigger and tougher than our native red squirrels and are driving them to extinction.

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**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-baby-squirrel-eat/670929/25 "2013-10-11T22:59:24Z")

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> [@Translucent\_Daydream](#):
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> Now how to break it to the wife, who is at work right now and will be home in a few hours? Hmm…

Get a kitten of similar colouring, and start calling it Rocky.

If your wife asserts that it is a kitten and not the squirrel, give her sympathetic but patronizing look, ask her if she is feeling OK, pour a bath for her, and state “We’ll just have to agree to disagre on this one.”

Be sure to get your vet in on it before she takes the kitten to the vet for the first time.

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