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Squirrel goes from bottle baby to paper shredder

The phone rang while Alexandra was at work. It was the security guard, calling about an injured baby squirrel with a bleeding nose and a cut on one leg. more

The squirrel, later named Alvin, was also dehydrated. Alexandra took him home to the apartment she shared with her husband in Valencia, Venezuela. She had never raised or treated a squirrel, so she started reading up.

At first she fed him milk every four hours. Then a vet said he needed it every two or three hours, and the schedule got tighter. For about two weeks she woke up through the night to give him his bottle.

Around the two-week mark, Alvin opened his eyes for the first time, and he liked to lie on her. Soon he was walking on his own. His menu grew to apples, peaches, coconut and nuts. Nuts were his favorite, but he loved sunflower seeds too, and he wolfed them down.

He was curious from the start, and he never lived in a cage. Alvin went wherever he wanted, and where he wanted was usually on Alexandra. The moment he saw her, he climbed up. He followed her around the apartment and even joined her while she cooked.

At Alexandra's work he was just as playful. He loved to climb the printer and chew the paper, which made him the cutest shredder around.

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The phone rang while Alexandra was at work.

Outside, though, Alvin was his own squirrel, and seeing him free and wild made Alexandra happy. After a few months she let him go. He lives in the wild now with a female squirrel. He still shows up every day, so he gets to keep his freedom and Alexandra too.

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