Dog adopts baby squirrel

Debby Cantlon took in a newborn squirrel found at the base of a tree and began caring for him. But this time, she found herself with an unlikely nurse's aide: her pregnant Papillon, Mademoiselle Giselle, who actively encouraged the orphan to join her own litter, born Sept. 9.

For Cantlon, who has cancer, helping wounded animals is a healing activity. And in that spirit, she says, came the name she bestowed on the young squirrel, Finnegan: "As in, 'Finnegan, begin again.' "