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Wisconsin wildlife rehabilitators worked Thursday to untangle the tails of five young squirrels after they found themselves "hopelessly entangled" in their nest.
The "Tale of Five Tails", as the Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) Wildlife Rehabilitation Program has dubbed it, began when someone spotted the gray squirrels and asked for help.
Their tails were intertwined with "long-stemmed grasses and strips of plastic that their mother used as nesting material," writes the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center on Facebook.
The rehabilitated anesthetized squirrels and worked carefully to untangle the small tails – a jigsaw that the Humane Society jokingly described as a "Gordian knot".
"It was impossible to tell who the tail belonged to, and we were more and more concerned because everyone was suffering from varying degrees of tissue damage to the tail caused by circulatory impairment," he added.
In the end, they could cut "at the plastic knot with scissors, being careful not to cut anyone's tail" in about 20 minutes.
The WHS said Friday that squirrels were "bright-eyed" and that three of the five creatures were "bushy tail", while the other two seemed to have a little less fur. Rehabbers said they would continue to monitor squirrels to make sure their tail had enough blood.
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