Squirrel – an amusing cheerful small animal, since childhood familiar to each inhabitant of a midland of Russia. It is possible to meet these small rodents in forests and parks, and recently popular began to hold a squirrel of the house. And, certainly, the animal who is contained in a cage needs good nutrition.
Instruction
1. If the baby squirrel fell of you into hands, know that up to two months they eat mother's milk. When mother squirrel leaves a nest, she wraps up baby squirrels with a warm soft vystilka. Therefore the attempt to bring up the kid from a pacifier can be crowned with success only in case you do not forget to wrap up a baby squirrel that to it it was warm. As such children's shelter the woolen scarf or a down scarf curtailed by an envelope will approach. It is necessary to feed baby squirrels with the cow's milk divorced water with addition of sugar at this time.
2. Include rice and millet porridges in a diet of the matured squirrel. Remember that a squirrel – after all a herbivore, and the surplus of a protein is simply harmful to it. After the baby squirrel was six weeks old, he can germinate deciduous trees, young branches of a fir-tree, seeds of oats, linen, hemp, vegetables, fruit, nuts.
3. When the young squirrel reaches age of eight weeks, begin to give her cheese and cottage cheese. After the tenth week include in a diet of flour hearts and mushrooms. In several weeks give to the pet of egg, low-fat beef meat and fish of deep freezing.
4. The adult squirrel needs to be fed twice a day – in the morning and in the evening. At the same time you remember that it is impossible to overfeed a small animal at all – it reduces his activity. The standard daily rate of food for a squirrel has to be 45 grams. Cedar, walnut and forest nuts, lettuce leaves, cabbage, escapes of a celery and carrots, squash and cucumbers, siliculose haricot, tomatoes and potatoes can enter its diet. With pleasure the small animal will eat such berries as raspberry, blackberry, bilberry, a wild strawberry. The squirrel also will be grateful for cereals (not germinated).
5. If you want to feed the small animal met by you in the park, do not offer a squirrel chips or chocolate at all. Perhaps, she will also take from you delicacy, however there will be not enough advantage of it. It will be better if you before a campaign to the park come into shop and buy white crackers or a package of sunflower seeds. Squirrels will manage to appreciate your generosity.