A wonderful story of a squirrel being adopted by a human family has come to light on the internet. Priami, a user on Reddit has told of how the badly injured squirrel came to live with the family in Finland after being found close to death on the road by Priami's grandmother. She handed over the squirrel to Priami who nursed it back to health. When the family later tried to release the squirrel they realized it could not cope in the wild as it was blind in one eye, so they named their little furry friend Arttu and kept him for his entire natural life. The squirrel lived with the family from 2007 to 2013. For more on this heart warming story, read on…
The squirrel, then a baby, was found badly injured on the road.
"When it seemed like he had recovered we tried to release him back to the wild but he fell from a tree and hit a rock."
"He survived, but we realized his eye would never heal completely and that he would not survive on his own."
"We were very surprised how 'tame' he became."
"He liked to have playful fights with our hands, (you know like cats do) and he was smart enough not to bite too hard."
"He also liked to take naps in our pockets." 
"He even recognized his 'family' and became very wary if there were strangers nearby."
"[We fed him] nuts, fruits, berries and mushrooms."
Even when they let him go he always came back. "He stayed there for a while and then jumped back to my shoulder."
"Squirrels' claws grow all the time so we had to occasionally cut them because he couldn't wear them out naturally."
The flash in this image shows the glow of his good eye…
…while this one shows his gray and cloudy blind eye.
"He died of old age. One morning I found him dead in his 'nest' curled up as though he was sleeping."
"We fed other squirrels all the food we had stored for him before he died."
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