My mother used to have...

My mother used to have a pet squirrel. Boys in the past tried to "befriend" her and they gave her all sorts of gifts. (In  the end she married my dad.) She mentioned that the guy, back then a kid, climbed up a tree to get one of the squirrel's babies. The mother squirrel then bit this guy in order to defend her young. The next day, the same guy brought the baby squirrel in a cage and he gave it to my mom, along with food to feed it. She kept it for a while until the squirrel ran away.