A Bolton family who rescued a lonely baby squirrel are so nuts about him they set up a nursery - giving up a whole room in their house.
Salma Khan, 40, shooed away four eager cats, including family pet Sherman, who were eyeing the petrified rodent in her garden.
The cold, weak, creature clung to her fourteen-year-old son Zayn Teemil's foot for comfort - sucking at the shoe he was wearing.
The caring mum filled her fluffy pink bed-socks with uncooked rice which she popped in the microwave to make heat packs which the tiny animal snuggled-up to while they waited for his squirrel-mother.
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