A Squirrel’s Guide to Fashion
In the early 1940s, LIFE magazine reported that a woman named Mrs. Mark Bullis from Washington, D.C., had adopted a squirrel “before his eyes were open, when his mother died and left him in a tree”. Mrs. Mark Bullis loved dressing up that little animal……
“Most squirrels,” LIFE noted (with a striking lack of evidence), “are lively and inquisitive animals who like to do tricks when they have an audience.” (They do?) Anyways; LIFE went on to observe that the squirrel, dubbed Tommy Tucker by the Bullis family, “is a very subdued little animal who has never had a chance to jump around in a big tree.” Ahhhhhhh (Read more: http://life.time.com/curiosities/a-squirrels-guide-to-fashion/#ixzz1n3NC3F65)