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[stealthbunny]

I haven't seen Gimpy-squirrel in a couple of weeks, and I'm worried. Not that there's anything I can do, but when one has a visitor almost every day for months and then the visitor doesn't show for two weeks... well, worriesworriesworries.  I do know that grey squirrels breed early and give birth about this time, and I suppose it's entirely

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[moxie_man]

Several years ago...who am I kidding? It was closer to a decade ago now. There was a squirrel with an injured right rear leg and missing a third of her tail who came to my porch and right off accepted treats from my hand. From the extent of her injuries, I'm guessing she had an encounter with a cat or other predator and barely escaped. I assume cat for the neighborhood I lived in at the time and dozens of outdoor cats

[stealthbunny]

It's amazing what squirrels can heal and recover from, isn't it? Gimpy herself had a front leg so broken that it fused out to the side and backwards. She was already the smallest of the squirrels who came for "breakfast", and was always bullied the most - I've read that the females are the lowest in status except during breeding and while raising kits. When I saw her leg, I immediately started giving her more peanuts and extra piles of sunflower seeds. This was back in the fall. Just before Christmas, I noticed she was starting to use that foot to hold seeds. A few weeks later, she was putting weight on that leg. Now, you can barely tell it was ever broken, except occassionally when she holds it curled up