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JOEY
Reader's Digest US
|November 2022
POLICE REPORT PET SQUIRREL GOES NUTS ON BURGLAR
JOEY ISN'T YOUR TYPICAL GUARD PET. He's not a hulking German shepherd or brawny Doberman pinscher. He's a squirrel, a rodent. But he's certainly no pest-unless you try to break into his house. Then he's a world of trouble.
Adam Pearl found a baby squirrel orphaned in his yard in Meridian, Idaho. He decided to take him in and named him Joey. Pearl set an alarm to bottle-feed Joey every two hours. Joey learned to use a litter box and graduated to a diet of nuts and greens. In just a few months, he became a fixture in the house.
"He'd let anybody pet him," says Pearl. "Right up until the kid broke in."
This story is from the November 2022 edition of Reader's Digest US.
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