Squirrel Mom Blocks Woman’s Path And Leads Her To Help Its Injured Baby

The Pulaski Police Department in Virginia shared a story that you need to see. It not only restores our faith in humanity but also shows how wonderful a mother's love is.
A few days ago, Tia Powell was walking on a park trail near her home in Virginia when she noticed a squirrel standing just off the trail. She was not surprised because the squirrels population there is pretty large. She didn’t think much of it and continued her walk. But what happened next led her to call the police for help.

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“She (the squirrel) ran up to me and grabbed my sweatpants. I was shocked and speechless. She came right back. Something told me to see what would happen, so I stopped and watched her,” Powell said.
It’s when Tia realized the squirrel was in need of help. The squirrel started to be insistent with her to stop and then led her to a place where she found an injured baby squirrel lying helplessly on the ground. Tia noticed its injury was serious, so she call the police and a friend at the Humane Society for help.

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“I felt bad because I pushed it away the first time instead of just waiting to see. My children and I love animals, so to see it hurt and the mom couldn’t help was sad,” Tia told CBS News.
Everyone suspected that it had sustained the injury from a nearby stray cat. So they decided to move the squirrels to a safer area.

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"We were able to get the baby and mother to a different area with more trees and it was able to climb all the way up and they looked very happy," Powell remembered. She went back a few days later to show her kids where it all went down. In the trees, Powell spotted two squirrels staring at her, and couldn't help but wonder if they were the same squirrels she rescued.

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The Pulaski Police Department shared a video online and wrote it was something “that you would’ve had to see to believe!” They added, “Had Tia not been willing to trust her instincts that something was wrong, this might have had a very different ending!”

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A couple of days after, Tia returned to the spot with her son.
“My youngest son said, ‘Look, there’s a squirrel.’ I turned my head and there were two squirrels at the edge of a branch staring directly at me. I smiled back. I believe that was the same two squirrels,” Tia shared. Her kindness saved someone’s life. “It’s still kind of surreal and neat at the same time. I am glad that I had that experience,” the woman says. “It was an experience that will always be remembered.”