Squirrel is nuts about water skiing - Too Weird - Brief Article

Squirrel is nuts about water skiing - Too Weird - Brief Article
Author: Current Science

SANFORD, Fla. -- A water skiing animal. If you happen to see a little rodent ski by one day, don't think you've gone nuts. You've just seen Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel.

Twiggy is an international celebrity on the boat-show circuit. Her trainer, Lou Ann Best, straps a little orange life jacket on Twiggy and puts her on a pair of tiny skis. Best then places a metal handle connected to a rope in Twiggy's paws. A toy motorboat is revved up and Twiggy is off! Boat-show crowds love the sight of the little brown squirrel skimming round and round a bathing pool.

Twiggy is the fifth in a line of water-skiing squirrels. Best's late husband, Chuck, trained the first Twiggy to water-ski in the late 1970s. He also taught miniature ponies, French poodles, a toad, and an armadillo to water-ski, but Twiggy has been the most popular attraction.

The five Twiggys have appeared in magazines and on TV shows, as well as in countless boat shows. Best says teaching a squirrel to water-ski takes about four months and lots of repetition and affection.

When not on the road, Twiggy lives in Best's home, where the squirrel has her own room, carpeted in mulch and furnished with oak branches. Twiggy can eat in her room, says Best, but the squirrel prefers to dine in the kitchen, where she can snitch off people's plates.

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