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This morning I found three small animal fetuses(?) in my yard. They were incredibly small, pink, and alive. They could fit in the palm of my hand and we're fairly sure now that they were puppies. We moved them to a more foresty area where my dog couldn't reach them and we're hoping the mother comes to get them. We're fairly sure they were an abandoned miscarriage though. Looked like this:

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They were making these horribly sad whimpers the whole time, it really ****ing got to me.

Edit: I got pictures of them, I'll post them later.
 
Looks like a mole or possum or something like that. I've found things like this in my yard (but I live in the country and my yard is the size of 2 football fields with a forest in it..)

Meh, such is life.
 
Looks like a squirrel infant honestly. They are born hairless and have longer tails:

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At that stage, they may need more protection than separation from your dog to survive the night. It's also probably a safe bet that (between their initial abandonment and possible scent contamination from handling them) mom's not coming back for them. Unless they're raised and reared for eventual release to the wild (not easy, I would guess), they're either dead or your new pet.

I think a pet squirrel would be a hoot (dogs are okay too). I also have some fish that haven't eaten today, so I could go either way, but if you decide to keep/raise them, I'd get them to a vet quick (for positive identification and feeding techniques at least).
 
Guys he said it LOOKED like that, that's not an actual picture of it. Let's not be so hasty to call it a squirrel because that's what the pic he found is.
 
The harsh reality of the cycle of natural life.

Chances are half of us on these forums would have been dead before 12 easy.
 
Vegeta897 said:
Guys he said it LOOKED like that, that's not an actual picture of it. Let's not be so hasty to call it a squirrel because that's what the pic he found is.
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Pshh, like anyone here has any reading comprehension.

nurizeko said:
Chances are half of us on these forums would have been dead before 12 easy.
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That makes no sense whatsoever.
 
This reminds me of this one time when my friend and I are just walking down the side of the road talking and I look to my immediate left for no reason other than just looking around and I see a dead, half-rotted bird lying on the ground with its guts quashed out.

I laughed so hard I was in tears, I don't even know why. I mean it was genuinely funny to me, my friend too.

Is there something wrong with this?
 
Corp. Sheepo said:
This morning I found three small animal fetuses(?) in my yard. They were incredibly small, pink, and alive. They could fit in the palm of my hand and we're fairly sure now that they were puppies. We moved them to a more foresty area where my dog couldn't reach them and we're hoping the mother comes to get them. We're fairly sure they were an abandoned miscarriage though.

They were making these horribly sad whimpers the whole time, it really ****ing got to me.
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Hairless newborn mammals aren't fetuses.

By tampering with them you may have made it even less likely for the mother to return.
 
That includes breast feeding duties. If you don't have mammary capacity, then you'll have to make do with the plumbing you've got...
 
Lots of animals leave their children during the day (especially squirrels), so you might have thought they were abandoned when really they were not.
 
Yeah, I leave my children all the time, and if I come back and find a new, strange scent on them I won't pick them up.

It's one of my peeves i guess.
 
Eejit said:
Hairless newborn mammals aren't fetuses.

By tampering with them you may have made it even less likely for the mother to return.
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Thanks for making me feel better, DICK. They were in the middle of our drive way, I couldn't of let them stay. I really used the term fetus likely because I couldn't call them animals the way they were.
 
Corp. Sheepo said:
Thanks for making me feel better, DICK. They were in the middle of our drive way, I couldn't of let them stay. I really used the term fetus likely because I couldn't call them animals the way they were.
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Sir, you are a dick. :(

Why did you ever touch them!? You should have put on gloves to move them. Plastic gloves of course. Completely sanitized non-scented medical grade gloves.

Honestly, go find them and raise them for yourself. A squirrel as a pet would be brilliant. Hahahahaha.
 
If you really want to do something call your local animal shelter, although they usually just say to put them on the ground and leave them there. I had a baby dear in my yard that was very nice and acted like a dog and when I called them they told me just to leave it in my backyard, it was very very young btw.
 
^

If you fed it, it'd keep coming back.

Keep feeding it, it'll bring it's friends.

Then they'll start squatting in your loungeroom and the animal shelter will say "I told you so."
 
I think the internet was a bad place to tell people.
 
poor little things :( are they still alive.
 
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