Katie Wells was enjoying her husband’s birthday party when her cat appeared with a guilty look on its face.
The Maidenbower resident is unsure if her cat had picked up the tiny creature and brought it into the garden, or if it was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and made to look slightly guilty.
She said: “I think the cat might have brought it in but it had lots of sawdust round its mouth so it could have been nesting in our chiminea because all the logs in that have turned to sawdust.
“I thought it was a rat at first so I didn’t want to touch it, then when I Googled it, it looked like a baby squirrel.”
Katie was initially unsure what the small pink creature was, but after posting a photo on the Maidenbower Residents’ Group Facebook page, was able to confirm the animal’s identity.
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