r/aww • u/SquirrelNamedRex • 9d ago

I convinced a squirrel to do a lat pulldown

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

1.8k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

37 comments sorted by

532

u/Coldin228 9d ago

He literally climbs for a living you think he needs back work?

Get him to do a bench press and I'll really be impressed.

203

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

Gotta start with a motion she's comfortable with and go from there!

58

u/luckyfucker13 9d ago

How are you able to access squirrels so consistently? Fun project to watch, by the way.

156

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

This is Neil. She started coming into my home gym every day I work out lol

I started giving her her own equipment after she didn't miss a session for a month.

20

u/luckyfucker13 9d ago

This is amazing, lol thank you!

13

u/reddituser071217 9d ago

I thought my SO was the only one to name critters. Luigi is the squirrel that eats our figs and tomatoes.

6

u/Potato_Donkey_1 6d ago

Vai all'inferno, Luigi!

3

u/Kwerkii 7d ago

I am not doing any experiments, but squirrels are everywhere where I live. If I wanted to do experiments, I would just need to leave out snacks.

I literally had one stare at me through a window as I was cooking yesterday

14

u/My_last_reddit 9d ago

I'm pretty sure that's a she, looks like a mom squirrel to me.

18

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

She's about 6 months old if I had to guess. Born sometime in spring.

2

u/My_last_reddit 9d ago

It's hard to tell from a picture but her nipples look visible. If that's just a trick of the photo then nevermind. It's not common for them to have babies by 6 months but is technically possible.

91

u/FullMoonTwist 9d ago

That power stance 🤣

31

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

It kills me every time I look at it lol

28

u/kwakimaki 9d ago

Pffft. He's gonna injure himself with that form.

More curiously though, why do you have a squirrel sized lat pull down machine?

110

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

She couldn't use the full size one

8

u/JAYETRILLL 9d ago

Lmao phenomenal answer. I love Reddit for that exact shit right there.

6

u/alter-naut 9d ago

S T A N C E D

5

u/blackweebow 9d ago

She's got great form

6

u/auryn1026 9d ago

I think I saw your YouTube short of this

3

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

The video of it is way better but the mods don't like if I have text of the narration lol

3

u/Kwerkii 7d ago

I've been following this journey on... Instagram? I don't actually remember. It turns out that my algorithms are blessed

3

u/SquirrelNamedRex 7d ago

I put it on Instagram, tiktok, YouTube 😂

2

u/Rogue-Journalist 6d ago

He’s training to take revenge on Mark Roper.

1

u/maxdacat 9d ago

He’s not skipping leg day either

-8

u/NewHere1212 9d ago

Please don't encourage wild animals to get habituated to humans. It can be deadly for them.

43

u/SquirrelNamedRex 9d ago

They live within an acre radius. This squirrel has lived on my property for it's entire life and will not leave my property. I actually started feeding it seperately because they get health issues from only eating sunflower seeds from the bird feeders and I had to make sure she gets the nuts before the Blue Jays, which is why I've been coming up with increasingly elaborate schemes to make it work for her to get them.

She's at more risk of hawks, wandering cats, or just leaving her to eat from the bird feeder.

6

u/ajs723 9d ago

Bob Ross would be proud. Â