This time we will follow the tale of two sisters who came in together, after their mother had been hit by a car. One brave soul, who later was known as fatty, became so hungry. that she climbed down from the nest and tried to suckle on a woman's toes.
Fatty was the largest of the two. She was uninjured and had the healthiest appetite. While her sister (seen below) was the runt of the litter, and eventually became named, Little Sister, since she was always the smaller of the two. Little Sister came in with an eye injury, a torn cornea, that required treatment with a special opthamic ointment.
	You can see the swelling in the eye in the photo to the left, while (above) Fatty looks "bright-eyed and bushy tailed." The girls were bottle fed for six weeks, and after a few more weeks, they were moved outside into a large pen in preparation for release. The pen with a specially designed trap door allowed them to come and go as they pleased.
	Free at last, Fatty went through a transitional period that many new releases do, especially if it is as soft release where the animal continues to be monitored by its carer. They will return for food until it is time to mate. Fatty had three litters of babies. She introduced all her offsprint to the Wild and Wooly feeders, although they never approached the human carers. In this photo, 'Fatty' has lost her baby fat and is looking pretty sleek.

Fatty and Little Sister were fox squirrels, the largest of all the squirrel species. All totalled, there are nine different sub-species of the Sherman fox squirrels. The Florida fox squirrel is black with white ears, although pockets of white fox squirrels exist. The Florida fox squirrel is considered threatened.

The most common American squirrel is the grey squirrel. It is smaller than the Sherman fox squirrel, but larger than the red squirrel. In some areas of the U.S. the territories overlap. However in England, the grey squirrel is rapidly pushing out the native red.