One day Michelle and I were sitting by the house and Fluff our cat was out by the garage batting something around on the tar? Every once in a while whatever this was would spin in a circle as the cat would sit and watch. I told Michelle go see what that is and shoo the cat away! Michelle came back with a baby chipmunk, the cat had only hurt it slightly, but it was young. Fluff had killed a big chipmunk 3 or 4 days before and I think this was its baby. It was weak and I’m sure hungry and had come out of the nest!

Michelle wanted to keep it so we took a little box and put some cotton balls in it and I told Michelle we’ll try to feed it some milk with a Q-tip! Well, it worked, and it wasn’t too many days that the little guy started to perk up! Michelle kept holding it and feeding it and trying different things like feeding it crackers and bread? It liked that.

Well, she would take this little guy everywhere in her shirt pocket and when she would sit and watch TV it would peek out of her pocket and then in her hair and come out on top of her head and sit! If it was startled it would dart back to the safety of her pocket! It never left her side she asked me one day what should we call it? I said how about Spinner since that’s what it was doing when we first saw it!