{"id":736710,"date":"2026-07-01T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:31:33","slug":"kind-man-builds-tiny-houses-to-keep-backyard-squirrels-safe-from-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736710\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind Man Builds Tiny Houses to Keep Backyard Squirrels Safe From Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John of <a href=\"https:\/\/squirrelboxes.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Squirrel Boxes<\/a> explained how his empathy for backyard wildlife led him to build tiny houses to keep neighborhood squirrels safe from predators and the elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Squirrels live such a hard life. \u2026I made the decision that I was going to make squirrel boxes. I went out to my garage and built and built and built and built for weeks, and I gave away all the boxes I made by hand. I made probably over a thousand. I just kept building and kept building and kept building. \u2026just wanting to help as many as I could.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He talked about how he equips each of these boxes with a camera so that he can see for himself that the squirrels are safe. There have been a few occasions when John had to step in to save a life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve went up there and rescued over 30 babies and taken them to wildlife rehabs to give them a chance to live when their mom didn\u2019t return.  \u2026.They\u2019re not about, oh, look how cute they are. Of course, that is part of it, but the thing is you\u2019re able to step in, help them with what they can\u2019t ask for, but I try not to humanize with them. You don\u2019t really want to get them familiar with you where you can pet them. They need to know that humans are dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  John also gets countless images of these adorable creatures in their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the things that I\u2019ve seen is siblings who play together, snuggle, and hold each other for warmth. You\u2019ll see during the wintertime when it gets to the negatives, like -10\u00b0. You\u2019ll see stranger squirrels, squirrels that are not siblings, that are just random squirrels. I\u2019ve had 16 squirrels in a box at one time, just snuggling for warmth, just for survival. These boxes give these animals a place to thrive for generations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John of Squirrel Boxes explained how his empathy for backyard wildlife led him to build tiny houses to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-736710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}