Our pet baby chipmunk.

Update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUI4jWFI3U 
 Heres a video of the chipmunk. 
    
So my sister found a abbandoned baby chipmunk while outside. We decided to look around for the mother and leave the chipmunk where we found him to see if the mother showed up. Well she never showed up so we took him in. We put him in a plastic droor with woodchips and a bag ful of warm water that he could lay on. We also decided to buy him gatorade which the people at the pet store told us to get him. We then bought him some type of pet formula. Or maybe it was just normal formula.  
 
The first night he escaped the droor and crawled under my hoody that she left on the ground. I guess it was a good thing I decided to check up on him. 
 
Now for today. My mom went to work and my sister had to goto this camp thing. My mom never told me this so I didnt know I should of been watching the chipmunk(I sleep all day). My mom came home from work and check on the chipmunk to see that he looked dead. His lips were blue and we were scared. My mom kept rubbing his head but we assumed he was dead. We then drove to the vet to see if he could help. He was closed. We went back home and kept trying to help him. There was no clear animal hospital around and we didnt have a phone book to find one. He looked dead but and his stomach showed no signs of breathing. While we were stroking him we noticed he was making noises. He was also moving his lips. We grabbed a little suringe and put water in it. Than put it near his mouth. He started sucking on it. He than started to move around.  
 
Turns out he was just dehydrated because we never gave him food or water. We felt like absolute shit. Now I'm personally going to make sure he gets tooken care of. 
 
Also a mod locked my thread asking for help which I didnt appreciate at all.

Update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUI4jWFI3U 
 Heres a video of the chipmunk. 
    
So my sister found a abbandoned baby chipmunk while outside. We decided to look around for the mother and leave the chipmunk where we found him to see if the mother showed up. Well she never showed up so we took him in. We put him in a plastic droor with woodchips and a bag ful of warm water that he could lay on. We also decided to buy him gatorade which the people at the pet store told us to get him. We then bought him some type of pet formula. Or maybe it was just normal formula.  
 
The first night he escaped the droor and crawled under my hoody that she left on the ground. I guess it was a good thing I decided to check up on him. 
 
Now for today. My mom went to work and my sister had to goto this camp thing. My mom never told me this so I didnt know I should of been watching the chipmunk(I sleep all day). My mom came home from work and check on the chipmunk to see that he looked dead. His lips were blue and we were scared. My mom kept rubbing his head but we assumed he was dead. We then drove to the vet to see if he could help. He was closed. We went back home and kept trying to help him. There was no clear animal hospital around and we didnt have a phone book to find one. He looked dead but and his stomach showed no signs of breathing. While we were stroking him we noticed he was making noises. He was also moving his lips. We grabbed a little suringe and put water in it. Than put it near his mouth. He started sucking on it. He than started to move around.  
 
Turns out he was just dehydrated because we never gave him food or water. We felt like absolute shit. Now I'm personally going to make sure he gets tooken care of. 
 
Also a mod locked my thread asking for help which I didnt appreciate at all.

Drawer, taken. 
 
Yes, food and water helps keeps things alive.
 
And the mods locked it because this is a video game website, not a chipmunk health care forum.

Pretty sure it's a known fact that you don't just take in wild animals because things like that happen. 

"Pretty sure it's a known fact that you don't just take in wild animals because things like that happen.  "

None of you seriously thought that a BABY chipmunk needed food or water for a whole day? Wow.

"None of you seriously thought that a BABY chipmunk needed food or water for a whole day? Wow. "

" None of you seriously thought that a BABY chipmunk needed food or water for a whole day? Wow. "

None of you seriously thought that a BABY chipmunk needed food or water for a whole day? Wow.

I work at a pet store and to be honest we usually recommend you take it to an animal shelter to be put down if you can't find the mother within a day. The problem is that unless you're really into animal care and know how to take care of them, you're going to kill it through malnourishment. The type of food and quantity that it needs to obtain is hard to duplicate while force-feeding it through a syringe, and things like human milk can kill them very quickly. Going to a vet will net you a massive bill due to the meds they would most likely prescribe. So unless you want to poison it with the wrong food or overfeed it to death, I would recommend taking it to an animal shelter.

Video up guys.

I don't know if they take chipmunks or not, but if they do, take it to the animal shelter. Free yourself from the responsibility.

" I work at a pet store and to be honest we usually recommend you take it to an animal shelter to be put down if you can't find the mother within a day. The problem is that unless you're really into animal care and know how to take care of them, you're going to kill it through malnourishment. The type of food and quantity that it needs to obtain is hard to duplicate while force-feeding it through a syringe, and things like human milk can kill them very quickly. Going to a vet will net you a massive bill due to the meds they would most likely prescribe. So unless you want to poison it with the wrong food or overfeed it to death, I would recommend taking it to an animal shelter. "

" @Skogen said:

" I work at a pet store and to be honest we usually recommend you take it to an animal shelter to be put down if you can't find the mother within a day. The problem is that unless you're really into animal care and know how to take care of them, you're going to kill it through malnourishment. The type of food and quantity that it needs to obtain is hard to duplicate while force-feeding it through a syringe, and things like human milk can kill them very quickly. Going to a vet will net you a massive bill due to the meds they would most likely prescribe. So unless you want to poison it with the wrong food or overfeed it to death, I would recommend taking it to an animal shelter. "

Listen to this gentleman. "

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I don't know if they take chipmunks or not, but if they do, take it to the animal shelter. Free yourself from the responsibility.

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" @Br3adfan: Did I read it wrong?  Pretty sure it survived... "

Where the vet? VETERINARIAN!

You can always let the chipmunk "accidentally" run away.

Animals do need food and water you know?

Oh Giantbomb of yesteryear, where art thou?

" @Ugalde: I'm afraid to watch the video, how exactly is it. "

How the hell do you automatically assume that it's abandoned? It's a chipmunk for fuck's sake, which is a wild animal, which from time to time end up in our neck of the woods to check out our business.

It's cute.

"How the hell do you automatically assume that it's abandoned? It's a chipmunk for fuck's sake, which is a wild animal, which from time to time end up in our neck of the woods to check out our business. "

My brother has chipmunks aswell.. they stink

Yeah dude, take that thing to a shelter. If you thought it would be fine without food or water then you're not capable of bringing it up.

"Yeah dude, take that thing to a shelter. If you thought it would be fine without food or water then you're not capable of bringing it up. "