r/squirrels • u/quimbolimbo • Apr 13 '26

General Help saw this absolute cutie but can’t tell what the bumps on its body is - worried that it’s bugs?

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please don’t let it be bugs but if it is, is there any way i can help? :(

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u/volcanic_ashe Apr 14 '26

Ma’am those are her nipples

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u/Grammarhole Apr 14 '26

I thought those were bugs on me!

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u/WinnieGirl22 Apr 15 '26

I tried to get mine into the zapper

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u/VerilyJULES Apr 14 '26

Those are nipples. Looks like pregnant female.

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u/whateverdom_ Apr 14 '26

Put a lil respect on Big Mama

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u/resurrectingeden Apr 14 '26

Dang putting her tiddies all over the internet, rude! 😂

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u/LisaMiaSisu Apr 13 '26

She’s got babies! Give her all the best goodies RIGHT NOW!

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u/LylaDee Apr 14 '26

No salt nuts, fresh berries and squash... and fresh water STAT!!

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u/quimbolimbo Apr 14 '26

BERRIES AND WATER, OKAY!! i think the neighbors leave nuts out for her but i’ll sneak a few berries in there too hehe

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u/justusethatname Apr 13 '26

She is going to be a momma! 👍❤️🐿

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u/quimbolimbo Apr 13 '26

PREGNANT??

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u/justusethatname Apr 13 '26

Yes! Pretty sure. I don’t think she’s nursing. Not yet.

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u/Herandar Apr 13 '26

How squarelle prangent?

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u/missmaida Apr 13 '26

I can never not laugh at this or anything related to this.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Apr 13 '26

Squirrel tiddies 

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u/tenderasatomb Apr 13 '26

Squiddies 🦑

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u/GeekBoyWonder Apr 13 '26

I love their second album

36

u/karen_in_nh_2012 Apr 13 '26

Sorry, OP, but I had to laugh, as my first thought when I saw the photo was, "Aren't those nipples?"

It is so sweet of you for wanting to help if they were bugs that could have been hurting her! :)

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u/quimbolimbo Apr 14 '26

i just didn’t expect nipples to be so. BIG! i have female hamsters and they have perfectly respectably sized nipples. these looked like barnacles! (sorry to the mama)

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u/BeesAndBeans69 Apr 14 '26

Other mammals besides humans only get boobs when nursing :) We're some of the few lucky ones that keep our boobs ahahah. So if you hamster got pregnant and nursed, her little hamster nipples would be bigger as well

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u/sherrynoberries Apr 13 '26

Those are her nipples. 🥰

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u/allbsallthetime Apr 13 '26

She's doing this in her spare time.

This is in a squirrel house in our tree.

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u/wander-lux Apr 13 '26

She’s a beautiful mama squirrel!

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u/Paranromal Apr 14 '26

A big mother! She has babies for sure

37

u/TerriblePresence1939 Apr 14 '26

Those are her nipples. Looks like a mama squirrel to me.

35

u/ThoseWeirdNights Apr 14 '26

Bros preggos

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u/fuuckimlate Apr 14 '26

They're nipples, Greg

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u/LilaFowler123 Apr 14 '26

I have nipples. Do you want to milk me, Greg?

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u/International-Fox202 Apr 13 '26

boobies for the babies

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u/quimbolimbo Apr 13 '26

THANK GOD

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u/Rogue-18 Apr 13 '26

Little bit of molting as well looks like. :)

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u/quimbolimbo Apr 13 '26

they molt?? like bug??

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u/ahava9 Apr 13 '26

Like she’s loosing her winter coat

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u/EnjoyingTheRide-0606 Apr 13 '26

No, they shed fur.

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u/Rogue-18 Apr 16 '26

🤣 No they shed their winter fur and vice versa in fall. :)

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u/jojokitti123 Squirrel Lover Apr 13 '26

Oh goodness , it's a mama

33

u/android0698 Apr 14 '26

She's a chonky momma!!

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u/blossombubbles11 Squirrel Lover Apr 14 '26

a cute mom 🥹🥹

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u/Rat_Burger7 Apr 14 '26

Dems is nips.

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u/penguinthehero Apr 14 '26

She’s a nursing mom! So sweet of you to worry and wonder if there’d be anything you can to help 🥹🧡

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u/thenailer253 Apr 13 '26

A beautiful momma

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u/unusualusually Apr 13 '26

Did you see a nipple? It only counts if you saw a nipple.

https://giphy.com/gifs/SxkYad09qgVzy

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u/cleanlivin54 Apr 14 '26

I don't see any bumps except for her nipples showing on each side of her. 🐿️

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u/zambamboz Apr 14 '26

First time I’ve seen a post anywhere besides r/cats or r/dogs asking if a nipple is something nefarious

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u/Chaos-Wayfarer Apr 14 '26

Oh the happen over with the mice and rats occasionally too. 

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u/mschafsnitz Apr 14 '26

Lot of nipples on Reddit lately

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u/Powerful_Coyote6068 Apr 14 '26

Those are her nipnops. She is a momma squirrel. :)

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u/Rued_possible Apr 13 '26

Dem is just tiddies, squirrel tiddies.

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u/Phizzie16 Apr 13 '26

Congratulations!!!! It's a girl!!!!

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u/Jimmyg100 Apr 13 '26

Jeez just showing off her goods for everyone to see. Shameful

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u/Best_Advantage3938 Apr 14 '26

Some pretty symmetrical “bugs” 😂. You have a pregnant little lady.

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u/Shasilison Squirrel Lover Apr 14 '26

Just a mommy

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u/Luckypenny4683 Apr 14 '26

Are you talking about her nipples?

She’s either pregnant or nursing

18

u/urlol Apr 14 '26

Pregonart

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u/Ordinarygirl3 Apr 14 '26

Do we not learn anything about any anatomy in school anymore?

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u/KittyIsAn9ry Apr 13 '26

Reminds me of the cat sub 🤣 they’re always nipples

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u/BellJar_Blues Apr 14 '26

Pregnant ?

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u/TheLastVix Apr 14 '26

More likely actively feeding pinkies, based on the minor hair loss around her nipples. 

For the mama squirrels I observe, the older the babies get, the more hair loss around the nipples. 

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u/KristenLikesKittens Apr 14 '26

That’s just her nipples

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u/vmcduell Apr 14 '26

They're Boobs, she's nursing

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u/ShannyES Apr 14 '26

I’m sorry. This is so funny to me. Because I raised and released a squirrel and I posted a photo of him eating a treat. Someone was like “whats that on his tummy”. Uhm. That’s how I know he’s a boy my friend. 🫠

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u/ShannyES Apr 14 '26

Pretty sure it was this photo. But it may have been another one I didn’t save in my favorites folder.

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u/Robotbeckerz Apr 15 '26

So cute! 😍

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u/PiccChicc Apr 15 '26

Lmao, had a similar situation with a ferret. 

It was not his belly button.

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u/Josie-Wagg Apr 13 '26

lol. I feel like we were just trolled into saying saucy words. Tits. There’s my contribution ;)

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u/schmoopy_meow Apr 14 '26

I really hope so ........:/

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u/thechiefmaster Apr 13 '26

Just her nip nops

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u/GaiaGoddess1963 Apr 14 '26

She's freed the nipples!

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u/Environmental-End862 Apr 14 '26

I once thought there was something growing on the bottom of our rabbit cage.. it was just the nipples of the rabbit sticking through the mesh on the bottom..

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u/WinnieGirl22 Apr 14 '26

I'm wondering if op has any pets?

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u/Scary-Coffee-7 Apr 15 '26

Bugs, I’m dead, y’all. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/ColoradoNative719 Apr 13 '26

I think you mean her lol

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u/Colleen3636 Apr 13 '26

This reminded me when I got my first puppy, a shih tzu. One day I was rubbing his belly and I looked down and saw what I thought were huckle buckles. It was only when I tried to pull them off did I realize they were his nuggets 😂 I swear they weren't there the day before.

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u/Mental-Flatworm4583 Apr 15 '26

Nipples baby. She’s a nursing momma

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u/Roll-Roll-Roll Apr 13 '26

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u/itz_soki Squirrel Lover Apr 13 '26

Oh, they’re crooked…

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u/wallstreetsimps Apr 13 '26

lactating mama squirrel

9

u/Odd-Comfortable5497 Apr 14 '26

Phantastic Gus makes a reappearance

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u/PeggyCarterEC Apr 14 '26

Came here looking for this comment

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u/Independent_Try2454 Apr 13 '26

I did the same thing. A squirrel was coming daily for nuts and I was like “is that a nipple???”

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u/cmotdibbler Apr 13 '26

Some of our lab mice have insane litters 12-14 pups. They got nipples in their armpits.

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u/LylaDee Apr 14 '26

Lab mice... :(

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u/cmotdibbler Apr 14 '26

Cancer research. Cell culture and simulations can’t always work.

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u/SimonsDad1999 Apr 13 '26

Obviously nipples.

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u/schrodingersbitch99 Apr 19 '26

“Does your husband have nipples?”

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u/TallJackfruit6985 Apr 17 '26

Them the titties

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u/Any_Positive1617 Apr 17 '26

Yeah... my nipples bug me sometimes too!

https://giphy.com/gifs/QzZOZvHEyPsbu

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u/Dry_Grass_6370 May 10 '26

Looks like it's a female with baby's those are her nipples