{"id":147438,"date":"2026-03-24T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:24:10","slug":"berks-county-woman-aids-squirrel-with-overgrown-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147438\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County woman aids squirrel with overgrown teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA squirrel named Toothy found help from a woman in Sinking Spring, Berks County, who noticed he was struggling to eat due to his overgrown teeth and took action to assist him.For months, Toothy showed up at Linda’s house for food, and she noticed something was not right. His teeth were getting longer, and he was having a hard time eating.Linda cut his food into tiny pieces so he could push it past his teeth and chew on one side.Over time, Linda worked on earning his trust so she could trap him.She brought him to Acorn Acres Wildlife Rehabilitation in Lancaster County, where they trimmed his overgrown teeth.Acorn Acres said, “You can see the relief in his face.”Now, they will see how his teeth grow back.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tSINKING SPRING, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A squirrel named Toothy found help from a woman in Sinking Spring, Berks County, who noticed he was struggling to eat due to his overgrown teeth and took action to assist him.<\/p>\n

For months, Toothy showed up at Linda’s house for food, and she noticed something was not right. His teeth were getting longer, and he was having a hard time eating.<\/p>\n

Linda cut his food into tiny pieces so he could push it past his teeth and chew on one side.<\/p>\n

Over time, Linda worked on earning his trust so she could trap him.<\/p>\n

She brought him to Acorn Acres Wildlife Rehabilitation in Lancaster County, where they trimmed his overgrown teeth.<\/p>\n

Acorn Acres said, “You can see the relief in his face.”<\/p>\n

Now, they will see how his teeth grow back.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"berks<\/p>\n

\t\t\"berks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A squirrel named Toothy found help from a woman in Sinking Spring, Berks County, who noticed he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67201,349,67207,1515,47239,9146,1084,3685,67206,13187,5914,67203,67204,128,130,129,12927,16420,67208,67205,67202],"class_list":["post-147438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-acorn-acres-wildlife-rehabilitation","tag-berks-county","tag-dental-care","tag-food","tag-hard-time","tag-help","tag-house","tag-lancaster-county","tag-linda","tag-month","tag-need","tag-overgrown-teeth","tag-overgrown-tooth","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-side","tag-sinking-spring","tag-tiny-piece","tag-toothy","tag-toothy-the-squirrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}