Raising a baby squirrel is almost as much work as raising a human baby. They are very demanding and need a lot of care. The first month he spent here he slept in a small basket in the crook of my arm. When he started to get bold he had to move into his cage. But I will always remember that teeny little face poking through the baby blanket in his basket when he woke up.
Squirrels are very unique in that they have virtually no waste.
Alex does not have an odor at all, when you enter my house you cannot even tell I have a pet. I have litter on the bottom floor of his cage, corn cob pellets actually, and that is where he also buries his stash. This part of the cage has a kind of musky smell, but it is not unpleasant. When I am not here and at night are the only times Alex's cage door is closed. But even in the cage he has enough room to jump and play and work on his nest etc.