My rant of the day: other rehabbers drive me nuts! I have spent the last two hours picking maggots out of 3 baby grey squirrel's ears and rectums. Fun times

. I can understand when these type babies come from finders because they don't know anything and often don't notice, but these babies have been with a rehabber for the last two days and she said they had a couple fleas and were OK otherwise. I don't call hundreds of maggots coming out of the ears OK!
Then before I even finished getting those three settled in, someone else brings 3 baby fox squirrels that she found yesterday morning and called the wildlife center I volunteer at about. They told her to call me if the mom didn't come back. So, she waited all day yesterday (they are tiny pinkies!) and then took them in for the night and kept them in the car and fed human baby formula
🙁. There were 4 and one died overnight. She brings the others and they are little ice cubes and the lady tells me they were warm, just cooled off in the 10 minute car ride. She says they were on a heating pad, but if they were in the car before and were on a heating pad, why would they cool down on the way to me, they came in the car so if the heating pad was on in there, why not leave it on for the ride? I am guessing these babies have been cold all night
🙁. People make me so mad sometimes!
Also, was planning to finish up my PS and submit my VMCAS application today, but now I have 6 critical baby squirrels plus my other 17 babies. So much for a nice relaxing day off. Oh well.
Done with my rant now.