"Yeah, I can imagine that would be strange--I don't have a lot of experience with babies, but I know Ev loves being held, petted, and especially scritched behind the ears. Do you think that both of you being in the medical field has helped? You know, let you know what to look for?"

Sometimes he worries that Ev may have some quirks they haven't discovered yet, but mostly he dismisses it with the thought that he is a mutant.

"Our squirrels have a couple ways of communicating. There's the bond, which he can do, and then there's normal squirrel-talk, the chittering and body language. He can do the chittering just fine, but he's a little bowl of jello, he can't move himself around enough yet to do the body language part. It's like trying to talk without having a tongue, it doesn't quite work. In the spring, though, I'm sure."