Rocky Watkins is an unusual squirrel.

As a baby, he fell from his nest and was found by Karen Watkins (now his owner). Karen couldn’t reach his nest to put him back. Not knowing what else to do, she and her husband, Jim, did the next best thing they could think of… they placed the baby squirrel into a box of newborn kitten that their recently adopted cat Emmy had just given birth to.

Emmy immediately accepted Rocky as one of her own kittens, bathing and feeding him with the rest of his new brothers and sisters. Most interesting is the new trait Rocky has recently picked up - when he’s happy or receiving attention, he purrs!

Karen and Jim Watkins run a non-profit animal rescue in Central Mississippi called TAILS. To learn more about them, visit their page here.