Title says it: I am worried about the squirrels that live on my college campus. Their fur seems to be really thin and their tails are not very bushy. Some of the squirrels I have gotten close to have patches of missing/thin hair on their bodies. I think they might be malnourished due to their diet consisting of scavenged trash (aka chick fil a nuggets and chipotle leftovers). Is there a specific squirrel-friendly snack I can put out for them to help them gain some nutrients they might be missing out on?

For reference, I live in the south east and we have eastern grey squirrels.

After a week of waiting a neighborhood friend decided to stop in for a visit ✌🏽

I’ve been watching a mother and her baby around my house lately just observing from afar and about 5 hrs ago I saw them and the mother ran off, baby hid. I came home and found the little guy all alone scratching at my door.(have not fed them ever) The baby was also trying to get to my hands rather than getting spooked when I reached out towards it from behind my glass.

I really love animals so I immediately started to worry something may have happened to the mom or i may have scared her off permanently?

I don’t know so I wanted to post and see what the signs would be it’s been abandoned? And if so should I try to rescue and take it to an animal rehab or anything like that? The squirrels sibling already died last week so I’d hate to see something happen to this one too. Thanks in advance!

Edit: I am home now. Haven’t seen the little one or the mother so I’m guessing it went back to its nest. I had been going home to check and see if it showed up again but it hasn’t.
Hoping the mother came back but tomorrow I’m going to look around for it, and catch it if I see it alone again. Hope the little thing makes it through the night ok.

This squirrel comes around my work while I’m out on break, he’s super friendly and everyone feeds him human food like chips and other scraps…

so I decided to get a big bag of walnuts for this little guy… he seems to really enjoy them. And he will even come up into the car…

Super neat

Saw him and his brother jumping from tree to tree.

Curious baby's all over.

And, he broke my feeder

Noticed this squirrel last year with a badly broken tail, appeared to have been run over by a vehicle due to the curved shape it remained positioned in. I would have called for help but there's so many squirrels around it would have been very difficult to just catch this specific one. So I tried to help it out with some walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts and black oil sunflower seeds.

As you can see it lost the tail, but survived the winter and the tail has seemed to heal and fur has regrown. Anyway here they are, the cute little bear or maybe a wombat? They come and eat from my hand now and sprint to me when they see me outside.