How Squirrels Turned a Wall into Their Home: A Tale of Unexpected Houseguests!

okay we're going to head inside and go cut a hole in that wall to see if there are babies behind it this is the hole behind this tape the customer has taped it up because there was some insulation that fell out and it was an open hole for them so they taped it I can feel that there is a hole there and I can also hear movement behind it right now so we're just going to open up the tape first oh it's a very tiny hole that's there so far so you can see the plastic piece moving a little bit there so there's some movement behind [Music] this okay so just going to put the drywalls on oh there we we hit something right there it's very very thin here I'm listening to the mother she'd be growling if she was here but see she's completely taking away all the backing of the dry wall you show me the piece again oh yeah I see a tail they're pretty big are they make the whole bigger then okay make bigger go side to side stay above them I know they're below they're not and you're enough to get your hand in there a lot bigger than one I was expecting I was expecting that's picking up for your hand I know I'm going down sorry I need some room just for a second you climb up the wall I know I can see them you probably break that piece there they are right in there looks like their eyes are closed that one good that one's not moving you need to make that bigger or no it's perfect there's that one moving very cool hi buddy and take your time and yeah so the mom wouldn't have known that the room was behind this she was just chewing because she would have been lying here while she was feeding them and it's such a small space you can see the wall on the other side there and the mom would have just been chewing away because they're habitual chewers and they have to keep their teeth short so she would just chewed on the drywall here not knowing that there was a bedroom behind it so we're going to grab the babies we're going to reach for a baby big guys wow little body they're not going to go anywhere okay okay no they're just going to the left I just want to make sure none we're moving move this there's one they are big their eyes are closed though it's very cool yeah they're good STS for this time of year yeah so I think I saw three gray ones and one black one oh he's gripping onto my glove I's attach this to my arm reach in for a second is it going to be gray or black come on buddy black got a black baby wow so cool look how long their tails are so cool oh oh don't cry not yet put number two they're being very quiet if they were to start to Screech then mom would come running and blocks away cuz mom might not even be in here right now she could be out but this one's a bit smaller that's a boy how can you tell hi buddy a their feet are so cool and so grippy soon as I touch them they're gripping to my gloves that out of there if it's any way it's okay sh [Music] this is a baby squirrel in its nest which is so cool you don't usually get to see them on the inside Bud he's wanting to come out so we'll grab him he's kind of burying himself there come on that's okay there you go it almost didn't get you you're climbing with your eyes closed so you can just see how why they would be such good climbers when you look at their feet their back feet and long fingers and the sharp nails it doesn't take long for these guys once their eyes open within a few weeks they're able to climb out onto the roof and then in about a month's time they'll be as agile as the mother on the trees okay we'll put him in the bag go just make sure we have them all I can feel that there's no more babies there's a perfect little spot for them see the little space there and so if the mom continued to chewing to keep chewing she would have eventually made the hole bigger and gotten into here by accident but the customer caught it early and we were able to get them out so we'll take the babies outside and let's see if Mom will come we're going to put this piece of plywood over the hole so if the mom is still in there and she comes back to try to check where her babies were she doesn't make her way inside the house and then the customer will need some drywall repair afterwards and the the plywood's a bit warped but it's okay because it is blocking the hole it's tight so there's no chance of the squirrel getting into the house so now that we've got all the babies we've closed the hole we don't know where Mom is cuz we didn't see her I don't think I ever heard her cuz I was hearing the babies move around we'll go up on the roof with the babies Place one up there get them to make some noises hopefully they start chirping and crying out for her and then we will see if the mom comes out or comes from outside she might already be outside hears them and comes running cuz they will come running from blocks away so we'll have to watch for her while we have the babies up there but hopefully she returns so there's four of them can I take Pi yeah of course so one's black and the rest are gray so their eyes are closed still but they're they're pretty cute so they didn't know what was going on in there they were just making some noise it would have been the mom that made that hole though for her chewing and I didn't see the mom in there right now so we'll go up on the roof and try to get her to come grab a baby while we're up there oh so they'll come right away yeah yeah squirrels will hear their if they start chirping they're not making the noise right now but if they start crying out she would hear it and come running yeah it's a really high pitch noise that they make oh okay yeah you can take more pictures if you want take as many as you want okay yeah a at least they will be safe oh yes so even if the mom doesn't come back right now we'll be putting them in a heated jug so they'll be safe up there and she'll come back on her own time to get them and we would return tomorrow to check on them cuz we always want to give the babies back to the mom make sure that they're together yeah that's good and she would go crazy trying to find them as well so we make sure that they're reunited we have our harness on all our climbing gear so that we're safe up here while we go to the edge and deal with the entry hole and the babies so we'll just get set up and then I'll pull the babies out so just grab the babies I'll show you how well they can climb how grip how much they can grip on you maybe not this guy but grab them out grab all them none of them have cried yet and we haven't seen Mom but we'll take the not and they're just so cool at this age they don't really know what's going on but they are able to climb they have their really long tails which helps them with balance their feet are so grippy as soon as your glove touches them they're they're stuck on you they're ready to start moving around but they need their eyes to open they have all their fur coming in their claws are long they're kind of content they're not crying for Mom and their eyes are closed because they won't open until 21 days so they're about 2 weeks old maybe approaching three but they'll start to Slit open and then their eyes will be open and they'll be running around they typically would have just started moving around in their den they wouldn't have been ready to go out yet but eventually mom would have taken them out and taught them how to forage and jump from trees which she still will do but right now she'll be relocating them to an alternate Den site and she'll have to pick them up and carry them just because they can't see and then once their eyes open they'll be learning how to be a squirrel with Mom these two are like cuddling in here so I'll put one on the roof we'll see if they'll cry out from them it's a really high pitch noise that what they make it's okay okay let's try to get Mom to come oh the mother didn't come around while we were here but that's okay cuz we have our jug to place the babies in they'll be safe in here and wait for her return we have all the babies in our bag they've been waiting to go into the jug cuddled together so lined up yeah so one one by one we're going to put them in this little jug there's number one they're just so cool at this age so we'll place them in come on and there's a little bit of nesting material in there so they have something to lie on do number two this guy's a lot smaller than his siblings I'll put you in no buddy get your tail in do the black one a lot of people comment on our YouTube that they've never seen a black squirrel before where they live but they are very common here in Toronto and Canada Place him in there oh this is actually a tiny one too their little ear flapping in the wind and we'll put them in The Jug so we'll set up our trail cam be able to see Mom come back I think she'll come back this afternoon it's noon right now so she's probably just out foraging getting food and she would come back for them later so we'll set up that camera and we'll be able to see what time she came back for them if you look on the far right you can see the squirrel licking the peanut butter on our oneway door this is before the mother squirrel had come out so she was actually inside while we were doing the job just wasn't near her babies here she comes all the way out she's sniffing around notices our jug a little bit skeptical but then looks inside and sees her babies and right now it appears that she was very focused on trying to get back in rather than relocating the babies she knew the babies were in a safe space cuz she looked in she knew they were all there they're contained so she spends a lot of her time on our footage trying to get back into her entry hole rather than immediately moving on she's back on top of the door just trying to see if she can get past our work but she does not and this footage actually continued on for clips and clips and clips and even into the night and the next morning she continuously was just searching and trying to figure out a way in we unfortunately did not get the footage of her taking the babies away because of this but when we returned the next day around 10:00 a.m. all the babies were relocated and Mom wasn't in sight so she eventually gave up trying to get back in took her babies and moved to an alternate D site