Weird and cute. A chipmunk sleeps in a girl’s hair after playing hard all day.
The poster of the video had this to say about Chippy and how he came to doze in her hairdo:
Some people found chippy, on a sidewalk almost dead. We got him in June when he was about 1-2 weeks old. We don’t know his exact age.
He sleeps in hands, hoodies, pockets anywhere soft and comfy.
While squirrel news is always front page news here at nutsaboutsquirrels, it’s not often so in the mainstream press.
Thankfully, our local community paper the Beach Metro saw fit to correct that oversight in their Sept. 20 edition by publishing this lovely photo of a red squirrel on the front page.
Photo Credit: Phil Lameira / Beach Metro News
Background image obtained from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oktoberfest_inside_Hippodrom.jpg
The site One Hot Lap posted this story about 6 baby squirrels who stowed away in the air box of a BMW Z4 M.
The car had just completed two laps on a racetrack, reaching speeds of 140 mph, when the driver of the vehicle complained that the car was behaving in a ‘squirrely’ manner.
When they popped the hood they found six baby squirrels nesting in the car’s airbox.
The squirrels were rescued from the car unharmed.
The post has many pictures of the baby red squirrels and of the car, which was also full of shelled nuts and other debris.
This story is so full of cute and awesome I honestly don’t know where to begin: there’s the plummy accents, the fact that in Britain they call baby squirrels ‘kittens’ and then there’s the lovely older british lady, Eileen Welsh, who is caring for these baby red squirrels.
The four baby squirrels were blown out of a tree by hurricane Katia and were near death when they were found.
They were brought in to a veterinarian’s office in Alnwick, Northumberland, before finally ending up at The Sanctuary Wildlife Care Centre in Ulgham.
To start you off here is a video of the squirrels dozing together from Channel 4′s Youtube Channel, complete with a mobbing by paparazzi photographers at the end.
The BBC also did a full news story on the little critters as well.
The Daily Mail published this story which includes many more pictures and also has a very busy comments section.
The only sad part of the story is that The Sanctuary Wildlife Care Centre is in dire need of donations and may have to euthanize animals and close soon.
But who am I kidding, we are going to make sure that doesn’t happen, right? Heck, with all this publicity I’m sure those nice ladies who run the centre will be wearing monocles and driving around in solid gold Bentleys by the end of the week.
greenfudge.org posted this story which includes a video from ITN that shows more footage of volunteer Eileen Welsh interacting with the now famous baby squirrels.
