Never had that happen to me with a squirrel. But I did have it happen to me with a deer. I was hunting an Island in Lake Michigan, called Beaver Island. We were coming back to camp from town when I spotted something in the woods. I told my friend to stop and let me out, because i wa curious as to what I saw. He kept telling me it was just a rabbit. But I still wanted to see for myself.

AS I walked up to it I saw that it was I small yearling doe. Curious as to how close I could approach the deer. I kept walking up to her. Well she just stayed laying down and never seem to be scared. She kept cleaning herself and hardly watching me. Well I finally was close enough to pet her, so I decided why not.

She actually seemed to enjoy being petted, so I stayed with her for around 20min. then decided to walk back to camp. Well when I turned around the doe was following me back to camp. When I got back to camp I told my friend that a deer was out here to go and get his bow. I thought he was going to bring the tent down trying to get out. When he finally got out of the tent, he asked me where the deer was. When I show him the deer standing next to me, we both had a great laugh.

Well she stayed around the camp for most of the night. And layed down between us by our fire that night. We fed hed about a half a loaf of bread. then decided to call it a night. The next morning she was gone and we never saw her again. The only thing we could think of was someone had her as a pet and released her to the wild.