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In college I watched a Golden Retriever chasing a baby squirrel just that size across a HUGE open field with NO trees. I was a bit concerned. THEN the baby squirrel saw me and made a bee-line for me. He had my leg like a gunshot, scrambled up my back, got on top of my head, and started chattering and squalling furiously at the dog, who, by that time, was jumping all over me. The owner called the dog and led him away. The baby squirrel ran down my arm and cuddled in my hand. I put him in my shirt pocket and walked up to the huge trees on campus where the squirrels lived, took him out of my pocket, and put him on a branch where he happily scrambled up into the safety of the boughs.

awwww....cute babies, memosa! they look so tiny!

what a wonderful story mr. thorn. that squirel was very lucky you were around.

right after Ike, a good friend of mine found a baby squirrel out in the middle of her yard. it was such a baby the eyes were still closed. she took it inside and put it in a box in her bathtub. somehow her mamma kitty got in there and was feeding it. I figured she'd leave it with the mamma kitty till it was old enough to go back out on its own. but, she knew a guy that works at the feed store that has a lot of experience with caring for itty bitty critters like that. so, she took it to him. (when she called him, he already had 3 other baby squirrels from other people who found them laying around after the storm)

those are cute babies pam, and cricket and thorn, cute stories. my grandmother had a pet squirrel she raised. he was free to come and go through one of her windows. when he thought she had been on the phone too long (in the days of corded phones) he'd run down the phone cord from her shoulder and push the button to hang up the call

no way!

Reminds me of Teddy. parked in the golf cart talking to someone too long so he reached over with his hands (his feet wouldn't reach when he was 3ish) and pushed my foot down onto the gas pedal. Talked too long. He still does that if you stop and chat too long but now his feet do reach. But he won't drive the cart.

oh yes. he was quite a character. and granny could talk on the phone. a LOT! (2-3 hour calls were not unheard of, and this was before call waiting )