A clip of a drunk squirrel makes people laugh and goes viral.
The video received more than two million clicks on Twitter.
Minnesota - These days it seldom happens that reports and messages beyond the corona pandemic put a
smile on
people's
faces.
This is what a user on
YouTube
thought
and uploaded a video of a squirrel (* FR reported) - it obviously experienced the trip of a lifetime.
Drunk Squirrel: Staggering at the feeding station
In the video with the title "Drunk squirrel, because ... 2020." (Eng. "Drunk squirrel, because ... 2020.") The squirrel * is sitting at a feeding place, but the animal seems to be completely dazed.
The rodent can barely stand on its legs,
sways
back and forth and stares
rigidly
around.
The US-American
Kathleen Morlok
discovered the squirrel in the
garden
and made a one-minute video without further ado.
The animal's condition seemed strange to her, until she noticed that it had probably been eating the fermented
pears
.
She writes “Oops” under the
YouTube video
.
The shared clip generated
two million
clicks
on Twitter
.
Morlok had previously given her pet pig Hamlet two old pears that she had found in her refrigerator.
The pig ate a pear, but left the others in the garden.
When the
domestic pig
was back in the apartment, the squirrel came leaping up to taste the fruit.
Drunk rodent: Fermented pears had produced alcohol
What the squirrel couldn't have foreseen, of course: the pears were overripe.
As a result, they
had made
alcohol
through
fermentation
.
The small amount of alcohol was enough to put the animal into a complete intoxication.
Morlok, who shot the video, felt
guilty
.
She felt sorry for the "poor little guy" as the woman
told
the
Daily Mail
.
You have "thrown away the rest of the pears".
The food you see the squirrel eating in the bowl is seeds and corn.
"I was so worried about him all night!" Said Morlok.
Fortunately, the squirrel came back happy the next morning.
* FR.de
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