By Eve Hosley-Moore, Times Correspondent
Friday, December 17, 2010
Jutta O’Connell, 60, holds Lucky on Wednesday. O’Connell raised the gray squirrel after she found the animal as a baby abandoned near her home in Spring Hill. Now, Lucky lives near O’Connell’s home; a week ago the animal was hit by a pellet.
SPRING HILL
A few years ago, Jutta O'Connell found a tiny, pink-skinned baby squirrel near her house. Only a few weeks old, it had been separated from its mother.
O'Connell, 60, loves animals. She brought the creature inside, placed it in a towel-lined box and warmed it with a hair dryer. She kept it beside her bed and fed it puppy formula every few hours.
"When she opened her eyes,'' O'Connell recalled, "I was Mommy."
She named the squirrel "Lucky.''
Her husband, William, built a 3-foot cage on their back porch ...