Jill the squirrel, rescued as a kit from Hurricane Isaac in 2012, spends her days at the Louisiana home of her owner, napping, staring out the window, being adorable and modelling accessories for her diabetes-inducing Instagram account.
It’s a hard oul’ station.
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I expect it’s looking longingly out the window because that’s where it wants to be: outside.
Indeed. It wasn’t the lure of the plastic pumpkins and budgies that fated the poor squirrel….it was someone’s desperate need for a furry friend. Sad.
It sounds like after the hurricane the squirrel was rescued and kept it alive. I doubt it has learned how to squirrel correctly and as it is already friends with the dog it will probably befriend any other pooch it meets. Which wont be a long friendship.
To release it now would be the same as killing it.
So should it be released?
I agree — if hand-raised from a kit, it’s conditioned to be unwary of dogs and humans, and might have weakened food-gathering skills.
They should make him a tiny harness so he can play outside without getting lost, cos he does look pretty full of longing next to that window.
And maybe a miniature shopping trolley and some Tesco vouchers.
If they got him a unicycle and some mini bowling pins he could busk on Grafton street.
IT THINKS IT’S PEOPLE!
Awwwwwwwww :)
Ahhhhhh GAWWWWWWD me baaaaaaaaaby!
I’d have to quit work altogether if I had this little dote to dote on >_<
For about 2 years i’m checking periodically all P2P trading portals that i know of, looking to buy one. They (silver/grey) are considered pets and as far as i researched one can’t release them back into the wild in Ireland. If caught you have to kill it or call for some sort of animal services to do it but they seem to be lovely pets and i’m still not sure if it’s legal to keep them at home. Red squirrels are an endangered specie so that might be a reason why nobody sells them but it’s very disappointing that i can’t get a silver one anywhere >.<
Edit: “They (silver/grey) are considered pets” should read “They (silver/grey) are considered PESTS”
The grey ones are better at being squirrels and as a result are killing off the native red squirrels.
You cannot call them pests.
What are they doing now that they weren’t doing before people came along and destroyed their woods and forests. If anything people are the pests.
We never had greys here, they were introduced an as are such pests.
Ah yes. Sorry they are pests. My mistake.
ohmygoodneswhatacutiepatootum. look at that schnozz!
TREE RAT.
And let’s also not forget–let’s not forget, Dude–that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city–that isn’t legal either.