
Man Finds Baby Squirrel On His Bed, And It Grows Up To Be The Most Adorable Pet
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One day a man came back home, only to find that a mother squirrel had made a nest of twigs, dried pines and branches on his bed for her two newborn baby squirrels.
Wildlife rehabilitators Christina and Michael were called out to the unusual incident and tried to reunite the baby animals with their mother. However, busy with fetching materials for the nest, mother squirrel had no intention of taking the babies with her. Eventually, she stopped coming back at all.
Unfortunately, one of the baby squirrels didn’t make it, and after an assessment by a local wildlife vet, it was determined that the remaining baby would not survive on her own either. Which is why Christina and Michael decided to step in and adopt the cute squirrel baby and called her Thumbelina.
Simply put, Thumbelina was special from the very beginning. Because of an unusual birthing season and the loss of her little sister, Thumb had to grow up by herself without interaction with other brown squirrels.
Everything with Thumb was slow. While most babies could not care less about milk, having already tasted real food, Thumb was a big baby with a bottle. Unlike other wild animal babies, Thumbelina wasn’t interested in jumping and climbing. She would walk instead of running, and sit instead of climbing.
Even despite the best efforts to introduce Thumbelina to other squirrels, she would never want anything to do with them. One of her foster parents says: “I don’t know what she thinks she is, but it’s definitely not a squirrel.”
Now Thumbelina is a happy, chubby and very cute animal who spends her time peacefully with her Mom and Dad, but not without occasionally getting in some sort of trouble! She loves sugar snap peas, arugula, and avocado. And she absolutely hates outdoors, cold weather, other squirrels and the vacuum cleaner.
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One day a man came back home, only to find that a mother squirrel had made a nest of twigs, dried pines and branches on his bed for her two newborn squirrels
Wildlife rehabilitators Christina and Michael were called out to the unusual incident, and tried to reunite the babies with their mother
However, busy with fetching materials for the nest, mother squirrel had no intention of taking the babies with her
Eventually, she stopped coming back at all
Only one of the baby squirrels survived, but even her future was predicted to be grim
Fortunately, Thumbelina – a now two-year-old Eastern grey squirrel – has been given a new chance at life when Christina and Michael decided to adopt her
Because of an unusual birthing season and the loss of her little sister, Thumb had to grow up by herself without interaction with other squirrels
Everything with Thumb was slow. While most babies could not care less about milk, having already tasted the real food, Thumb was a big baby with a bottle
Unlike other baby squirrels, Thumbelina wasn’t interested in jumping and climbing. She would walk instead of running, and sit instead of climbing
Even despite the best efforts to introduce Thumbelina to other squirrels, she would never want anything to do with them
“I don’t know what she thinks she is, but it’s definitely not a squirrel”
Now Thumbelina is a happy squirrel who spends her time peacefully with her Mom and Dad, but not without occasionally getting in some sort of trouble!
She loves sugar snap peas, arugula, and avocado. And she absolutely hates outdoors, cold weather, other squirrels and the vacuum cleaner
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Precious, adorable little thing! Why don't squirrels make nests on my bed??!!
how cute! Im gonna make 90 accounts, and upvote this!
Great, now I want a squirrel.
C**p, me too!
And me!!!!!!
Me toooooooooo!
Stop making everyone want a squirrel
Same!
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They make horrible pets, they can and will bite to the bone,
Maybe they would if you just plucked one from the wild but this little one has been hand reared and knows no different hence why she has become the adorable little pet she is!
She's so cute and chubby!!
She's gorgeous but should she be quite that cuddly?? I know nothing about squirrels bar they're cute.
I was thinking the EXACT same thing. This whole post made me smile.
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There's nothing cute about animals being overweight...
@Plant Lover..that squirrel is not overweight. All eastern grey squirrels are pear shaped. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/42784265182629998/
So you'd prefer they'd left her to die? Or strap her to a treadmill? She's an indoor squirrel with no interest in the outside world or other squirrels.
@Carol Emory, i still think that it looks a bit overweight
Arwen: Riiiight, so the only options are either left to die or being overweight? What about saving her and caring for her properly?
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Carol Emory: Eastern grey squirrels may be pear-shaped, but they are NOT supposed to have love-handles.
Precious, adorable little thing! Why don't squirrels make nests on my bed??!!
how cute! Im gonna make 90 accounts, and upvote this!
Great, now I want a squirrel.
C**p, me too!
And me!!!!!!
Me toooooooooo!
Stop making everyone want a squirrel
Same!
This comment has been deleted.
They make horrible pets, they can and will bite to the bone,
Maybe they would if you just plucked one from the wild but this little one has been hand reared and knows no different hence why she has become the adorable little pet she is!
She's so cute and chubby!!
She's gorgeous but should she be quite that cuddly?? I know nothing about squirrels bar they're cute.
I was thinking the EXACT same thing. This whole post made me smile.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
There's nothing cute about animals being overweight...
@Plant Lover..that squirrel is not overweight. All eastern grey squirrels are pear shaped. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/42784265182629998/
So you'd prefer they'd left her to die? Or strap her to a treadmill? She's an indoor squirrel with no interest in the outside world or other squirrels.
@Carol Emory, i still think that it looks a bit overweight
Arwen: Riiiight, so the only options are either left to die or being overweight? What about saving her and caring for her properly?
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Carol Emory: Eastern grey squirrels may be pear-shaped, but they are NOT supposed to have love-handles.