Flying Squirrels Mammals 
the doctor extended his arm the little creature, 
trembling with delight would leap upon his hand and 
run up his sleeve or down his neck. 
Mr. Ingersoll says that the general testimony of 
those who have made these animals pets, is that if one 
chanced to escape from the cage at night it went 
straight to where its master was sleeping, and crawled 
into bed with him and cuddled up as close as possible. 
Several have told me that these squirrels particularly 
enjoy spending their days curled up in a coat- 
pocket. 
Since flying squirrels are not strictly speaking 
hibernating animals, they need to provide stores for 
their winter use. They are not selfish like the red 
squirrel, but often have their stores in common, in or 
near their winter nests. These consist of nuts, 
acorns, corn, grain, birch-catkins, seeds from cones, 
and various other dried seeds. In the spring they 
eat many growing buds of trees. In gathering acorns 
and nuts, they cut off and drop down more than they 
harvest. Whether this is from mischief or careless- 
ness we do not know. I am sorry to say that they 
will also take bird’s eggs and nestlings, if they can 
find them. 
HOUSE 
The flying squirrel should have the freedom of the 
house. If kept in a cage at all, it should be a large 
one, like that described for the red and gray squirrels. 
Mr. Silas Lottridge kept a pair in a large cage, which 
had a squirrel-wheel attachment, that seemed to give 
them a great deal of pleasure. One day, in their 
play, one of them took an apple into the wheel to get 
it away from the other, and when the wheel began to 
revolve was vastly entertained by the noise of the 
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