A squirrel begged a man to help her baby, who was in trouble

years ago I had a particularly sweet cat bring me a baby squirrel. The babe appeared uninjured, but was listless. I had no idea where it came from. I called a woman I knew did squirrel rescue for our state's Fish and Wildlife Dept and took him to her right away. Once she examined the little one she said the oddest thing. It seems the baby was severely dehydrated. She concurred that the infant had been separated from mother squirrel for quite some time. Apparently in an odd twist my cat saved the life of that baby squirrel. I was in cat rescue at the time...always a litter of sickly kittens in my home. I think my cat thought along the lines of "something small in trouble. Take it to Mama she will know what to do." Animals never cease to amaze me.

I'm seeing a shift. Animals behaving like humans and humans behaving like animals.

Bless all those who love and help animals 👏👏👏

One day, my dad and I found two baby squirrels that were lying on the ground. At first, we thought they were rats but on closer inspection it became clear that they were squirrels. So, we put them in a tissue box up high, and put little towels for blankets. Concerned, we worried if the mother would return and eventually she did! She took them back again to our relief, and that was one of my stories about saving some animals.

I have a squirrel story for you. Some years ago I stopped at a rest center on the interstate. They had all kinds of vending machine there. Sitting on the edge of one of the machines was this squirrel looking though the glass front at all the food inside. As I came up I could see it was very interested in a bag of sun flower seeds. I was like "Why not?" So I bought the bag of seed and gave them to the squirrel. It took the bag and ran off into the woods. It stopped a few feet front the tree line and looked back at me as to say "Thank you." It made my day to make a hungry squirrel happy.

We rescued a baby squirrel that was only a couple days old on August long weekend in 2020. We raised her to adulthood and now lives somewhere in our back yard. She comes everyday for all the good food we give and the other squirrels also benefit from us spoiling Daisey.

I had a squirrel running parallel to me once in California, up and down trees along the way, following me. When I noticed, I stopped and held my hand up to him as though I held something. I only expected him to maybe look from where he was. To my surprise, he jumped off his current tree, ran over to me, up my leg to my underarm, and then realized I didn't have food for him. He looked at me and made angry chirping noises then jumped down and ran back to his tree and would not come back. He was a beauty!

Everything happens for a reason, it’s a blessing to get the chance to hold one.

Animals could teach humans a bit about Humanity that some humans lacked.

What a kind man. That squirrel Mom knew he would help her. I can watch Squirrels for ages too.

I once let a mama squirrel built a nest on my fire escape outside my window. I didn't chase her away. Instead I talked to her as she came and went for material for the nest. I encouraged her as soothingly as I could. I spent part of the winter listening to the family of squirrels chatter amongst themselve. They're a real vocal bunch. In the spring the mother squirrel was sitting on the stair railing of my front stoop. Her 2 babies were nearby. The mother on the railing was within arm's reach. I got the impression that she wanted me to pet her. And so I did. She obviously remembered me, even from the limited contact we had. I'll never forget to keep in mind how smart all critters are in their own way.

I was wading in shallow ocean water in Florida once when I found three hermit crabs that had gathered together and arranged themselves in a straight line in order of their size. The three of them had gathered next to an empty sea shell that was one size better than the rest of them. Hermit crabs can only live inside of empty sea shells. As the crabs grow in size, they have to find a larger shell. I was forever amazed to see the communication and cooperation that had to have taken place for this to happen. Clearly, the plan was for the larger of the hermit crabs to move into a larger sea shell they had found. The next larger hermit crab waiting in line would then habitat the newly abandonded sea shell, and so on down the line. Animals are amazing.

Animals are a lot smarter than people give them credit for.

Animals need our help just like we need help when things go wrong. This guy did good.

That gentleman is an angel. I feed and protect squirrels too. Both gentlemen in the second story are heroes. Real angels too

Awww, so sweet!!! That's amazing!!! I love animals!!! After a bad hurricane here in Florida, a baby squirrel lost its entire family & came running up to me & when I squatted down to see if it was ok, it ran up my arm & sat on my shoulder. I kept the lil squirrel until the roads were cleared up & took him to a wildlife lady who rehabilitates wild animals, teaching them how to hunt for food & then releases them back into the wild. That's just one of the wild animals I rescued. I have a picture of me with the squirrel sitting on my shoulder. My ex was shocked & had to take a picture, lol.

Squirrels are incredibly smart! I used to feed a squirrel every day, and he made sure I didn't forget, he would scratch at our front door.

Many years ago I had the same experience like in the last story. I was in my back yard just walking around when my dog started barking at something at my feet. I saw something and jumped back, not knowing what it was. Then I saw it was a very young squirrel and it was crawling towards me. I backed up some more and it kept following me around. I finally picked it up, brought in the house and bottle fed it from a recipe I knew for puppies. It was very hungry. It was about a month old, maybe a little younger. When it got old enough I built a bigger cage and when he got used to it I attached it to a tree. It had doors on both sides and one on top so it could get into the cage for protection or get out and climb the tree for protection. The squirrel could come and go as it pleased. It would play in and around the tree during the day and sleep in a boxed in bed area in the cage. I went every night for a week or so and locked him in for protection then let him back out in the morning. After about 2 weeks I stopped locking him in at night. Not long after It had found another place to nest but would come back everyday to eat. We slowly cut back on feeding it so it would have to find it's own food. Since then I had raised 2 litter of squirrels. One litter didn't even have their eyes opened yet. We heard them crying for 2 days non stop and no mother around, and when we saw they were crawling out of their nest onto the tree limbs, which one fell to the ground, we went and rescued them. It was pretty dangerous doing so since they were out on the tree limbs but we managed. Squirrels are so much fun and playful and would have loved to keep one, but like the first one, we interduced them back into the wild where they belonged when they were old enough and they came back every once in a while for a visit and a little treat once they have found another nesting place.

Animals know more than we give them credit for! God bless these men for helping out these cute little animals! 🐿❤️

Lovely squirrel stories. We have grey squirrels that we feed in our back yard on a cement picnic table .. it's really bird seed or sometimes hamster feed and attracts as many squirrels as birds. My Siamese/Calico cat LOVES to watch the squirrels and she has tail envy; even though her own black tail is very expressive in it's own twisty way. LOL She seems to think her squirrel buddies are small baby cats with fancy tails. She's an indoor only kitty with a breezeway porch so there's no danger of them ever really meeting in person. It's all total admiration through the window glass!