WARNING: This blog contains a baby squirrel photo

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Shannon Lee Manion’s blog about the rescue and raising of a baby squirrel started with this entry on July 6, 2010 :

Life can change at a moment's notice. For one new-born squirrel, a topple from the trees has changed its life forever. And, hopefully, there is a forever, or at the least, a full squirrel life for this tiny creature. I have dubbed him Oscar and he arrived in my cat's mouth two days ago...

I was uncertain what the cat had dragged home, so to speak. It was smaller than my thumb, naked and blind. Could have been a newborn rabbit because they are born blind and hairless but hey have signature elongated ears and they don’t have a long tail. My little bundle could have been a day-old rat or a puppy. It really looked like an embryonic dog from a C-Section done on a tea-cup sized Chihuahua. The umbilical cord was still attached.

Since then Shannon (also an Ottawa artist ) has been chronicling the plight of the baby squirrel on her blog, Baby Squirrel Oscar . Warning: Her blog containts many, many baby squirrel photos.

** Related: ** Ottawa Pets & Animals Guide