I have a confession: I don’t understand the hate people have for squirrels. I don’t understand the eagerness for building “squirrel-proof” bird feeders and such. Yes, squirrels can be greedy little ...

I’m a big fan of squirrels. Some people call them rats with fuzzy tails, and although this may be rather accurate, I still find them adorable. (Lots of people love rats, too!). While my neighbors drop ...

Katri Twiford in Timberlake watched a mama squirrel carry her tiny young, one by one, to a corner of Twiford’s roof, which the squirrel must have assumed was a safer nesting spot than the one she had.

Mama squirrel, my old friend, had three babies in the facade of my house again. I had seen her trying to dig a new hole in the house earlier in the winter, but I didn’t think she had been able to get ...

Animal lover that she is, Debby Cantlon didn’t hesitate when someone asked if she could take in an orphaned newborn squirrel and nurse it back to health. Neither did Mademoiselle Giselle, her pregnant ...

It takes a village to move a squirrel, apparently. Firefighters, animal control workers and a wildlife rescue agency teamed up Friday in Santa Cruz, California, to relocate an aggressive squirrel from ...