On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:30:02 -0500, Katra
wrote:

We hand raised a "loner" baby female squirrel one time. Named her
"flicka". As soon as she matured and her hormones kicked in, she started
attacking us. She'd run at us, bite, then run away.

I did that once with a clutch of baby cottontail rabbits. Hand fed
then from a toy milk bottle. Once they became old enough to become
independent they turned mean (my interpretation here) and would bite
me regularly. I turned them loose and they seemed to have no imprint
of "benevolent humans" at all.

Almost all wildlife works that way although I had a friend that
domesticated a baby female Bobcat. She became an extremely
intelligent and friendly pet around his house. He lived alone way out
in the country and could get away with it.

She was hell on peoples dogs that came around, though, as the dogs had
no clue as to what a 25 pound, very territorial and very protective
cat would do if the dogs decided to mess with her.

Rusty Mase