Why aren't squirrels kept as pets? They appear to be a virtuous size, and they are thoroughly lively creatures?
I'm referring to "Fox squirrels" - the brownish common ones that you see everywhere.
They are very animated and I sometimes hoot out loud at their antics and playfulness. And they are pretty easy to tame, whether you feed them peanuts.
But no one seems to if truth be told keep them as pets, as people do with rabbits, rats, guinee pigs, and countless other rodents and creatures of that size.
Is here something about a squirrel that makes them bad pets? Germs? Problem biters? Too hyper?
1.frantic animals
2. they bite
3. carry rabies
4. they can not be litter trained or house broken
5.they'd destroy things
and that's just the short document.
Biting and hyperactivity are two of the primary reason no one keeps squirrels as pets. While germs can be a problem, if you keep hold of the animal in your home, I don't see where that would event as much.
They are terribly hard to domesticate, and even though feed them can be fun, they will eventually run off and do their own hyperactive thing.
Answers: I reckon squirrels are awsome pets my freind has two squirrels they sleep inside at night and play on the trees during the day they are so much fun and so cute!
Well some people do tame squirrels
check out
http://living.oneindia.in/home-n-garden/...
Some people do adopt squirrels as pets, but they own to live outside and cannot really be domesticated. They do need to be able to run around loose external, rabies is epidemic, and you can't take them to the vet for shots to protect them from it.
Germs, and they are wild, not domesticated.
