I hand raised a baby squirrel. When it was a bit bigger it would climb all over me like I was a tee shirt clad tree, round and round my trunk, zipping top to bottom.
I looked like a road map...
We had a baby squirrel we raised when I was a kid. They are so much fun and personable as pets. When he got grown enough he was taken to a city park and released. Didn’t want him to get shot by hunters.
your squirrel story is similar to mine;)
Our 3 dogs, Great Dane, toy poodle and beagle mutt were sniffing at something on the lawn. It was a newborn squirrel that had fallen out of a tree.
I scooped it up and fed it an evaporated milk formula by eyedropper. It flourished on dog food etc., He would grab onto my bath robe and climb up the drapes. Months later, we released it up the same tree it fell out of. He found his squirrel family - but he would hang around the windows watching us and begging to come inside.
Loved that little guy;)