One day a man came home from work to find two baby squirrels on his bed. The baby squirrels were given birth momentarily before his arrival by a mother squirrel in a nest made of twigs and dried pine.
Christina and Michael; the wildlife rehabilitators were called on the bizarre scene in an effort to reunite the mother and her children. However, the mother squirrel showed no sign of taking babies with her and eventually, she stopped coming back.
Unfortunately one of the babies squirrels died and the wildlife officials made the assessment that the other one would also not make it out alive on its own. This is when Christina and Michael decided to pitch and adopt the baby squirrel which they later named “Thumbelina”.
Thumbelina had been special because of her unusual birth and she had to grow up without interacting with other squirrels.
Thumb was very slow in everything. She was a big baby who had to be fed with a bottle and unlike other squirrels, she was not interested in running and jumping or even climbing things. She would only walk instead of running and climbing.
Her rescuers tried to make her interact with other squirrels but she showed no interest in it at all. One of her foster parents says, “I don’t know what she thinks she is, but one thing is for sure that it is not a squirrel”.
Now Thumbelina lives a quite nice life with her mom and dad but she does get into occasional troubles of her own. Thumb loves snap peas, arugula, and avocado. She does not like other squirrels because she hates outdoors, cold weather and other squirrels.
One day a man came home from work to find two baby squirrels on his bed. The baby squirrels were given birth momentarily before his arrival by a mother squirrel in a nest made of twigs and dried pine.
Christina and Michael; the wildlife rehabilitators were called on the bizarre scene in effort to reunite the mother and her children
However the mother squirrel showed no sign of taking babies with her
And eventually she stopped coming back
Unfortunately one of the babies squirrels survive and her future was grim too
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
Her rescuers tried to make her interact with other squirrels but she showed no interest in it at all
Thumb was very slow in everything. She was a big baby who had to be fed with bottle
Unlike other squirrels she was not interested in running and jumping or even climbing things
One of her foster parents says, “I don’t know what she thinks she is, but one thing is for sure that it is not a squirrel”.
Now Thumbelina lives a quite nice life with her mom and dad but she does get into occasional troubles of her own
Thumb loves snap peas, arugula and avocado. She does not like other squirrels because she hates outdoors, cold weather and other squirrels.
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