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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Enter Anti SPAM Code: Click here to refresh this page Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Louida[/i] [br]But never like this before! [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ1.jpg[/IMG] For about as long as she can remember, Debby Cantlon says, friends and strangers have brought her animals in need. So it wasn't much of a surprise when someone asked her if she'd care for a newborn squirrel found at the base of a tree somewhere near Renton. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ2.jpg[/IMG] Debby Cantlon, who plans to release Finnegan, the young squirrel, back into the wild, bottle-fed the infant squirrel after it was brought to her house. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ3.jpg[/IMG] When Cantlon took in the tiny creature and began caring for him, she found herself with an unlikely nurse's aide: her pregnant Papillon, Mademoiselle Giselle. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ4.jpg[/IMG] Finnegan was resting in a nest in a cage just days before Giselle was due to deliver her puppies. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ5.jpg[/IMG] Cantlon and her husband watched as the dog dragged the squirrel's cage twice to her own bedside before she gave birth. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ6.jpg[/IMG] Cantlon was concerned, yet ultimately decided to allow the squirrel out and the inter-species bonding began. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ7.jpg[/IMG] Finnegan rides a puppy mosh pit of sorts, burrowing in for warmth after feeding, and eventually working his way beneath his new litter mates. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ8.jpg[/IMG] Two days after giving birth, mama dog Giselle allowed Finnegan to nurse; family photos and a videotape show her encouraging him to suckle alongside her litter of five pups. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ9.jpg[/IMG] Now, Finnegan mostly uses a bottle, but still snuggles with his "siblings" in a mosh pit of puppies, rolling atop their bodies and sinking in deeply for a nap. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ91.jpg[/IMG] Finnegan and his new litter mates, five Papillion puppies, get along together as if they were meant to. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ92.jpg[/IMG] Finnegan naps after feeding. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Louida/Spotties%20and%20dogs/SQ93.jpg[/IMG] Finnegan makes himself at home with his new litter mates, nuzzling nose-to-nose for a nap after feeding. (_)(_) [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.