"The first time I saw them feeding I nearly died laughing, they looked like a pair of astronauts and even now I can not stop chuckling every time I see them. "

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A young grey squirrel - using all the flexibility and ingenuity of his species - demonstrates how to get round a supposedly squirrel-proof bird feeder.

The male, nicknamed Smoothie, was found in Amersham, Bucks, and now vets at St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Aylesbury are trying to establish how and why he lost all his fur.

Cyril the squirrel spotted the mouth-watering crackers at the bottom of a bird-feeder, he was consumed with a desire for a nibble.

The question was: How to get at them?

A Chihuahua pup named Zachary from Cundy's Harbor, Maine ,snuggles, with one of three orphaned squirrels that his mother is raising along with her own two puppies.