<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>To preface this article, here is Rocky J. Squirrel of <i>The Bullwinkle Show</i> with an introduction . . .</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Soundbites/Rocky_Squirrel.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Soundbites/Rocky_Squirrel.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (February 17, 2017) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><div><h1 class="f2 f1-l chronicle lh-solid mb2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 22px 0px 0.5rem; font-size: 3rem; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; line-height: 1; font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Joey the indoor pet squirrel stops burglary, police say</h1></div><div> </div><div>MERIDIAN, Idaho – A pet squirrel named Joey prevented a burglary attempt in Idaho last week by scratching the teen suspect when he tried to break into a gun safe, police said.</div><div><br></div><div>The unidentified teenager told officers that the squirrel’s attack “scared him, obviously, because he wasn’t expecting to have, you know, a squirrel come flying out of nowhere at him,” said Officer Ashley Turner of the police department in Meridian, a Boise suburb. “So basically he said he took what he could and left as fast as he could.”</div><div><br></div><div>The squirrel’s owner, Adam Pearl, said Joey has lived in his house for about six months after he was found in a flower pot by a friend’s daughter when he was about one week old.</div><div><br></div><div>“He’s not like a dog and walks up and lets you pet him,” Pearl told the Meridian Press. “I guess the temperament would be more towards a cat – if he wants attention, then he’ll come and let you know.”</div><div><br></div><div>Joey eats nuts and greens, and spinach is his favorite. He buries some of the nuts in houseplants inside Pearl’s house and uses a litterbox.</div><div><br></div><div>“He trained himself,” Pearl said.</div><div><br></div><div>Joey’s reward for his vigilance were Whoppers, the squirrel’s favorite candy.</div><div><br></div><div>Pearl had planned to release Joey into his backyard in the spring.</div><div><br></div><div>“But now, I don’t know,” he said. “I’m kind of torn.”</div></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Last Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 image from video provided by KIVI-TV shows an indoor pet, a squirrel named Joey in Meridian, Idaho.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/SR/SR_021717_Joey.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/SR/SR_021717_Joey.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>