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

That would be great! I'd love it! I used to hate it when dumb neighbors
brought their dogs to our farm and they got in fights with our dogs.
Luckily we always had big dogs, so they usually kicked butt, and my brother
and I got out the pellet gun if they needed a hand.

We tried raising cottontail babies once, but they died and we just got fleas
for our troubles. One time when I was a kid I stole a couple pigeon chicks
from a nest and tried to raise them on zebra finch food, but for some reason
that just didn't work. My brother and I had a lot of success with garter
snakes, though. Fed them all the mice they could eat that we caught in the
haystacks. And once we found a dead gopher and kept it until it started to
smell. Farm kids have such fun! Luckily I got to raise my kids on the
farm until the last few years.

Cindy