Nature Strikes Again

Yes, nature has struck again at our house. The victims? Four little baby fox squirrels. In previous posts, I have discussed our resident "Crazy Squirrel". He provided much comic relief as we watched him steal corn and drag it across the yard and up the tree, on his head. We watched as he chewed holes in our camping chairs for his nest. It turns out, Crazy Squirrel had a wife and four children.
A few days ago we found his wife, dead by our mailbox. She looked as if she had jumped out of the tree toward the road and missed. We knew it was his wife by her nipples, six pointed little things. Well, yesterday as we were outside enjoying the glorious weather, the kids found a baby fox squirrel sitting under the tree that contains their nest. Just siting there. He was so cute! The top of his body was a brown-grey, while underneath was an orange-red. He looked just like a large squirrel, only his tail wasn't so big and bushy. We decided the best way to observe him was from afar, so we moved away.
A while later, we saw a squirrel by my car. Thinking it was the same one, we took no notice, until, after walking around the yard we discovered that there were actually four baby squirrels. Two in the fron yard, two in the back yard. By my opinion they looked large enough to be able to take care of themselves. I did not know how to take care of a squirrel anyway. They were making a high pitched squeaking sound. I don't know how they got out of their nest so high above the ground, but it was obvious they were looking for their mama.
As we were leaving for church, one looked as if he wasn't doing so well, swooning and all. This morning I don't see any of them at all.
It is so hard, living out in the country where nature isn't always nice. Since we have lived out here, we have lost four cats, of which one had kittens two days before she was hit so I had to bottle feed those kittens, quite a chore! We had a stray dog show up whom we took into our family, only to find out she was pregnant. She had 11 puppies, 9 which died from the sickness she gave them. The remaining two I gave to the Humane Society. It is so hard for me and the kids to have things die all the time. We can't have any pets, because we know they'll end up dying. I'm afraid they are desensitized to death now because of all the death we have come face to face with by the hand of nature.
If we find the squirrels are still alive, I'll be sure to take a picture to post on here.

That's all for now!

See ya later,
Jenn