What a cooool story!!
Closest I got to anything like that was nursing a baby squirrel that our cat had attacked. We kept him as a pet for maybe a few months. Then one day we decided he was good enough to join the rest of the squirrel population. He would come back to visit, and hop on Mom’s shoulders, but we discouraged that quickly.
Your story is much much better!!
We really like squirrels! Nice story.
Yes, like I said, if it’d been in part of a movie or book, I’d have said “Oh, come on!” A few “why” or “why not’s” about how that bird behaved are still a puzzle...
In 2025 you’d probably get arrested for “keeping a wild animal”. :-(
I should try to look up and repost my (lengthy) comments about the 4 baby raccoons we rescued last year. Golly, was that a riot! We only kept them until we could find a real rescue operation - which took a while because every place within a couple hours drive (each way) was already full...