{"id":471660,"date":"2010-03-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a976e862970b"},"modified":"2010-03-25T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:16:22","slug":"your-morning-adorable-baby-squirrel-kicks-like-a-dog-while-being-scratched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471660","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Baby squirrel kicks like a dog while being scratched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vC2pW0y6h48&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vC2pW0y6h48&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We were absolutely entranced by YouTube user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/molly1216\">molly1216<\/a>&#8216;s video of the sleepy young squirrel she rescued enjoying a good scratch. <\/p>\n<p>When she found the squirrel, he was &quot;dehydrated and losing body heat,&quot; Molly explains. She placed him under a heat lamp and &quot;<span>was trying to warm him up with a little massage&quot; when the video above was recorded. The result, of course, is alarmingly cute: Who knew squirrels kick their rear legs like dogs when they&#8217;re scratched in the right spot?<br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Certainly not us. But now we do, and we think this new information makes us love squirrels even more than we did when we first found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/01\/squirrel-appreciation-day-january-21.html\">the Squngee<\/a>.<br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After this video was recorded, Molly brought the squirrel to a wildlife rehabilitator who cared for him for a time before releasing him back into the wild. We love a happy ending almost as much as we love a cute squirrel!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>RELATED:<br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/02\/your-morning-adorable-rescued-rabbit-enjoys-a-meal-licks-its-lips.html\">Your morning adorable: Rescued rabbit enjoys a meal, licks its lips<\/a><br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/01\/your-morning-adorable-rubadubdub-raccoons-in-a-tub.html\">Your morning adorable: Rub-a-dub-dub, raccoons in a tub<\/a><\/strong><br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Video: molly1216 via YouTube<\/em><br \/><\/br><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were absolutely entranced by YouTube user molly1216&#8216;s video of the sleepy young squirrel she rescued enjoying a good scratch. When she found the squirrel, he was &quot;dehydrated and losing body heat,&quot; Molly explains. She placed him under a heat lamp and &quot;was trying to warm him up with a little massage&quot; when the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}