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I love working with animals, that´s because I´m a butcher

I don't KNOW the results of attempting to put a squirrel in a cage and bring them INTO your home. I've NEVER tried THAT! WOULDN'T "WANT" to BE in "jail". So it doesn't OCCUR to ME that I'd have the RIGHT to put a squirrel in one!

But IF you're asking can you get one to TRUST YOU, enough that he'll ALLOW you to feed him, get him to come "play" with you, get his COOPERATION to "schedule" interaction with you, then YES! THAT CAN BE done! But DOING so, requires a LOT of time, AND patience, on YOUR part! Remember, he's a WILD animal! And YOU are A LOT bigger, than him! So you're SCARY, to a squirrel. His LIFE depends on his HEALTH! An injured animal has POOR survival chances. So it's going to A WHILE, for him to LET YOU get close enough, to HIM, that you MIGHT be able to "harm" him. It's a BASIC lesson, of nature. Self-survival.

The ONLY way to OVERCOME this survival instinct, in a squirrel, a Blue Jay, a bear, ANY "WILD" animal, is to teach them to TRUST you! And THAT can ONLY happen OVER TIME, with MUCH interaction. But squirrels (like MOST animals, ESPECIALLY in "peopled" environments) ARE curious, about the things they DON'T know/understand, in their environment. So you CAN "entice" them, into interactions, with you. And, with time and patience, you CAN overcome their "natural" distrust of you. The thing IN YOUR FAVOR, in attempting to "tame" a "wild" animal, is that animals, like people, ARE creatures of habit. So, IF you have a particular animal, in your area, that you'd LIKE to make "friends" with, your FIRST "move" SHOULD BE to observe it. Study it's "habits". Do you see it in a certain area, at a certain time, each day. Does it DO some action (such as feeding) at a particular place, or a particular time. IF you CAN establish a "schedule" for the animal, then initiating interactions WITH that animal becomes MUCH easier. IF your "squirrel" forages for food in a particular tree (spot), each day. You can star by leaving food for him at that spot. (But you NEED to tailor the food you leave, to the animal you want to "tame"! If some OTHER animal eats it, BEFORE HE gets it, it's NOT going to help you "tame" him.

There's NOT time or room for me to walk you THROUGH the entire "process", here. But if you're thinking of a specific animal, in YOUR area. message me with the "details", and I'll help you work out a "plan" that has a HIGH % of success. But it's NOT going to happen, overnight! ESPECIALLY with an animal that's NOT "familiar" with humans, at all.