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Long story short, Indian squirrels == gandhi squirrelsmy pet squirrel was perhaps hhmm...eight inches long minus tail, with tail perhaps double around 16 inches, but it's also a thing that he was a fortunate pet with ample food and water at home, so grew pretty large and heavy, and as per internet indian striped squirrels have average lifespan of just a year or two - this photo was taken at very end days of his life, so he was already a 'senior citizen' in human terms - regular feral squirrels here would be about an inch shorter and quite thinner in frame i think
diet consisted mainly
- choli / cowpea beans and pods, was like his staple, would consume at least 5 choli bean pods through a day everyday, we used to keep a stock of choli beans-pods at home just for him
- that hardened stem and base around gobi / cabbage, that chewy part that is usually discarded while cooking
- almonds lol, mother specifically kept a jar full of some local variety of almonds for him, would easily consume 5-some a day, surprisingly he disliked most packaged almonds being sold in online grocery stores like flipkart-blinkit...would just throw it away over some reasons...only some local variety wala badam chahiye thaa lol
- chironji seeds, loved it as much as almonds if not more
- peanuts
- steamed potato, just a small bite
- boiled rice, about a spoon worth
- a piece of dough from roti
- a piece of seasonal fruits
- dudh ki fresh malai, would often eat about a teaspoon worth of malai
- pieces of human food offered by us, like typical dhokla-khaman etc lol
he also loved to chew on tulsi ke manjari (basil seeds) a lot, so much that at season he'd spend time sitting in tulsi pots attempting to chew all manjari out
one time he ended up consuming sitafal ka beej and vomited lots of foamy saliva, we were frightened of some sort of poisoning but after taking it all out he just continued like nothing happened, but yeah, sitafal is not something that indian squirrels should consume
if anyone ever needs some tips about raising squirrel cubs, ping me, i've got a lot of experience now
North American squirrels == khudi ram Bose squirrels.
Here the dumpster squirrels were all omnivores. They ate leftover kfc chicken first, the Aloo bhaji next.
Maybe that's why they are psycho kamikaze squirrel.