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Katherine Harrell offers a dish of peanuts to one of the squirrels in her rehab center,\u00a0 but it prefers one of her homemade “squirrel cakes.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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To donate:<\/h3>\n

Go to the Instagram account \u201cMarshallCreekWildlifeRehab,\u201d where you\u2019ll find the links for an Amazon wish list and how to donate through Venmo and PayPal. (Plus a ton of photos).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The squirrel had finished cracking open a peanut shell and eating the meat inside but was still hungry.<\/p>\n

It knew one of the four people standing near had more food, and it was determined to find it. Scurry up one person\u2019s leg. No food there. Scurry down and up another leg. None there, either.<\/p>\n

Finally, it located the hand holding the plastic bowl packed with peanuts. But those weren\u2019t the ultimate goal. It started digging, peanuts flying this way and that until it found what it was looking for. A squirrel cake. Nibbling started in earnest.<\/p>\n

The cakes are tiny balls about the size of grapes and made by Kate Kinnear (formerly Kate Harrell), associate lecturer in environmental science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re crushed pecans and sesame seeds and alfalfa that I have to grind up. Vitamin C, lecithin, cod liver oil, calcium. It’s about 12, 15 ingredients. It’s got all the micro-nutrients that they need,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

Store-bought food is out there, she said, but is \u201csuper-expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to buy it, I would be living under a bridge,\u201d she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Intensive hands-on work is just part of the equation when rehabbing animals. Certified by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency as a wildlife rehab expert, Kinnear has dozens of squirrels living in cages and large wood-and-wire enclosures at her Signal Mountain home, where Sugar Hill Wildlife Rehabilitation is located. They have ranged in age from hairless newborns to weeks-old ones that must be hand fed formula with a syringe to four-month-old adults ready to be released into the wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing just how much you learn by being around them all the time and the more I’m around them, the more I appreciate them because they’re incredibly smart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Plans delayed<\/h4>\n

Last year, she planned to incorporate wildlife rehab into a course at UTC, but COVID postponed the idea. For spring semester 2021, though, she had the help of Luke Mainello, a senior in environmental science who came to Kinnear\u2019s home-based squirrel compound a few days a week as part of his senior experience, a requirement for graduation in the environmental science program.<\/p>\n

Rehab work has given him \u201ctotal appreciation for the amount of work that gets put into this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the seriousness of it, the discipline,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t even think about all the effort needed to do this, but it is an around-the-clock job. It\u2019s not somebody who wants to come out and just play with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dedication is critical for rehabbing, Kinnear said, and so is understanding that these are wild animals, not pets.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people come into it thinking, \u2018Oh, I’m going to play with squirrels and I’m going to put on my Facebook and everything.\u2019 That’s not what they’re for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kinnear started rehabbing animals in 2012 and was certified by TWRA in 2016. \u201cIt’s not the kind of thing you learn on the fly. That\u2019s not fair to the animal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

With its tight budget, the TWRA doesn\u2019t fund wildlife rehab. Through its certification program, rehabilitators act as go-betweens for the public and the state agency, including answering questions or concerns about injured wild animals that people find.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a compromise of sorts between the two extremes of either allowing the public at large to attempt rehabbing with no education or experience or supervision\u2014a disaster in the making\u2014 or forbidding them from helping wildlife,\u201d Kinnear said.<\/p>\n

Each year, rehabbers must submit a report to the TWRA, outlining the number of each species taken into a facility, the date each animal was admitted, where the animal was found, why it was brought in and what happened to the animal.<\/p>\n

Focusing strictly on rehab\u2014no other type of research is taking place at the moment\u2014costs for running her facility average about $8,000 a year, with about $7,000 for food and formula, Kinnear said, and all the money comes from donations.<\/p>\n

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Squirrels, rabbits, opossums, etc.<\/h4>\n

Over the years, people have brought her squirrels, cottontail rabbits, opossums and chipmunks, among others. Some animals have come from as far away as Memphis, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just need you to do one thing \u201c she said. \u201cI need you to get that animal to me. If they do just that one thing, I’m going to do everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t rehab birds or reptiles, nor does she take in predators such as raccoons, foxes or bobcats since they terrify the smaller animals.<\/p>\n

Squirrels are her main focus, and many are orphans. While most are brought to her, she once found babies while trail running, hearing their chirping, almost-bird-like distress calls. She located one, took it with her on her run, then came back and found two more.<\/p>\n

In most cases, babies are abandoned only if the mother is dead, Kinnear said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mother gets caught by a hawk or somebody hits her with the car. I’ve had a couple of times when people shoot the mom,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSquirrel moms are very good mommas. They’re committed and they’re not going to just abandon their kids for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of his work, one of Mainello\u2019s jobs is to bring wounded animals to her.<\/p>\n

“I\u00a0 get a text from her just saying, \u2018Hey, somebody out in Cleveland needs a squirrel picked up.\u2019 So if I don’t have a class, I’m pretty much free to go grab him, come back and drop him off,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Once the squirrels understand that Kinnear is the fountain of food and not dangerous, they often become less afraid and will let her handle them. In some cases, the squirrels zip up her pants leg and shirt to perch on a shoulder.<\/p>\n

On a recent day, Kinnear and Mainello sat on her front porch, handfeeding three squirrels only a few weeks old and still on formula. With gusto, the babies drink formula through a plastic syringe.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s cute as all get out, but you must move beyond the cuteness factor to actually rehab them, Kinnear said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people see squirrels as novelties, something for their own gratification. But it\u2019s not about how you feel. All decisions need to be made for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At her rehab facility on Signal Mountain, Kate Kinnear has squirrels that range in age from newborns to adults ready to be released into the wild.<\/p>\n

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