Come visit our future home! We'll be moving on October 21, 2005. We've been busy growing and we've grown right out of our current home and moving into a restored and rebuilt historical 1700's barn! We are so excited that we wanted to show our customers the progress of this early structure and it’s surroundings. In time this structure will not only house our business but it will also be are rehabilitation clinic for the squirrels that we take in and care for and eventually release back to the wild. The projected date for the animal clinic will be the summer of 2006.

There are lots of photos to view from start to finish, after we move we will add more photos. With these photos you’ll meet part of my family and a couple of the critters that helped to motivate this business five years ago! This barn sits on 65 acres of land alongside a 1745 farmhouse which was restored back to original condition. Along with a large horse barn and several outbuildings. This farm has been my family since 1975.

Beginning construction early August 2005

The roof is off and the floor is next! Elsie our dog is nosing around for who know's what!

My father on the left, and my husband Gary on the right. Yeah, it looks like my father's doing all the work, my husband was actually pushing on the boards to hold them tight to each other. So he says! Elsie is just keeping an eye on things.

Here you can see some of the early history of the barn, with the early beans and the stone foundation.

The barn is nearing completion. The total time from start to finish was about 5 weeks, much faster than we thought it would be.

Above you can see some of the early antiques found in the barn, not that they were ever lost, we just never took the time to dig them out!

Below you can see the sides of the barn being put up. The barn is actually a barn over a barn. To keep the barn old and original on the inside but to bring it up to current times, it needed double walls with insulation throughout.

The photo on the top right is our current release site for our squirrels along the back tree line. The left top photo is the side view from the barn. The bottom left photo will be our future clinic for neonatal squirrels, the bottom right in the long front end will be product storage and the way back room will be our juvenile squirrel area with indoor/outdoor cages built into the back wall. That area of the barn and property are the most secluded from humans, cars, and domestic animals.

Below our some of our spring babies in their outdoor enclosures waiting for release. Yes, these furry little rodents with busy tails were the start of Chris' Squirrels and More five years ago. If someone had told me 20 years ago that I would be doing what I'm doing today I'd of told them they were NUTS! Twenty years ago I was raising Quarter Horses and children and chasing the squirrels out of my corn crib. Maybe I'm the one that went NUTS! Oh, the barn swallows on the lower right have several spots in our horse barn that they nest yearly, their always welcome back.