Come visit our home! We moved into this barn on October 21, 2005. After lots of growth, we realized that we had outgrown our previous home and now we're located in a restored and rebuilt historical 1700's barn! We are so excited about our home that we wanted to show you, our customers, how we went about remodelling and rebuilding this impressive barn and its surroundings. The barn not only houses our business (our storeroom and office) but it also contains a rehabilitation clinic for the squirrels that we take in, care for and eventually release back into to the wild.

We have lots of photos of the barn from start to finish. In these photos, you’ll meet some of my family members and a couple of the critters that helped motivate me to start this business almost ten years ago! our barn sits on 65 acres of land alongside a farmhouse, built in 1745, that was restored back to original condition. The property also contains a large horse barn and several outbuildings. This farm has been in my family since 1975.

Beginning construction (early August, 2005)

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



My father is on the left and my husband Gary is on the right. Yeah, I know that it looks like my father's doing all the work, but my husband was actually pushing on the boards to hold them tightly together. (Or so he says!) Once again, Elsie is keeping an eye on things!

In these photos you can see some of the early history of the barn, with the early beams and the stone foundation.

In these next photos, our barn is nearing completion. The total time from start to finish was about 5 weeks- much less time than we thought it would take to complete!

A few more pictures...



Above, you can see some of the early antiques that we found in the barn. (It's 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. In essence, our barn is actually a barn over a barn. To keep the barn looking 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 top left photo is the side view from the barn. The bottom left photo will be our future clinic for neonatal squirrels. The bottom right photo shows the barn's long front end which will be used for product storage; all the way in the back 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, some of our spring babies are in their outdoor enclosures, awaiting release. Yes, these furry little rodents with bushy tails were the start of Chris's Squirrels and More! If someone had told me twenty years ago that I would be doing what I'm doing today, I'd have told them that they were NUTS! Twenty years ago, I was raising Quarter Horses and my two children all whilst chasing squirrels out of my corn crib! Maybe I'm the one that went NUTS!

The barn swallows in the photo on the bottom right have several spots in our horse barn in which they nest yearly; they're always welcome to come back!

And there you have our home! Welcome!