A wild animal has definite needs every day. It will not graciously understand if you leave for a two-week vacation or visit the relatives during the holidays. You cannot board it as you can a dog or cat. Providing a good diet for wild animals is not an easy thing to do. While substitute diets work temporarily, an animal will eventually weaken and die from an improper diet.
Every wild animal is born with well-defined instincts.
It feels good when it can follow its instincts, bad when it cannot. Your inability to read the behavior signs related to instinct will eventually frustrate you and your animal. A frustrated animal may bite, scratch or become destructive. Unfortunately, most wild pets are picked up in the spring because they were thought to be abandoned. In reality, they are not abandoned until fall, when their human friends dump them in the woods.