{"id":410108,"date":"2025-09-09T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:42:10","slug":"rescued-hailsham-squirrel-is-mans-constant-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410108\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Hailsham squirrel is man&#8217;s constant companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A squirrel rescued by a kebab shop owner in East Sussex celebrated his birthday on Monday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hailsham businessman Mehmet Onal rescued an injured baby squirrel four years ago and nursed it back to health, but when he went to set it free, it kept trying to follow him home &#8211; so now Alvin is Mehmet&#8217;s constant companion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair have been best friends ever since and they celebrated with an acorn cake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Onal said: &#8220;People say, oh it&#8217;s amazing, oh can I stroke him, what&#8217;s his name? Can I take a picture? Which makes my day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A squirrel rescued by a kebab shop owner in East Sussex celebrated his birthday on Monday. Hailsham businessman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-410108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173690251962218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}