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I am going to SPECULATE that the squirrel rescuers could have kept the squirrels if they had filled out some forms or followed procedures.
Posted By: willywonka4u
Something you guys may not know about me is that I love animals. Cats, dogs, groundhogs, skunks, kangaroos, racoons and especially squirrels. I have no idea why, but I just like squirrels. I have a little colony of chipmunks in my backyard and I feed them and the birds and the squirrels and watch them in the morning while sipping my coffee. They’re adorable.
Sometimes a baby squirrel will fall out of it’s nest or it’s momma will get hit by a car and some people have learned take care of a baby squirrel and sort of domesticated them. Squirrels take to this surprisingly well, although they should be released back to the wild if possible. It not always is. A squirrel may lack the ability to go back to the wild due to an injury or lack of socialization. In those cases there’s no harm in letting them live out their lives peacefully with a human caretaker.
This was the case for Peanut. He was taken care of by a human who cared for him. Peanut became quite the star on social media until the government decided to intervene because they had nothing better to do. Because Peanut couldn’t be released back to the wild, the government decided to kill Peanut.
That is this administration in a nutshell. Solve a problem that doesn’t need to be solved while ignoring problems that do. And when they solve those problems that don’t need to be solved, they just whack a squirrel.
RIP, Peanut. You will be missed. Just be glad they didn’t let Haitians eat you. Or worse, let Pigbapa put you in a taco.