Man creates mini garden for his squirrel friends

By Debbie Luxon via SWNS

A wildlife-lover who is nuts about squirrels has become friends with a group of the cute rodents - by creating a tiny pub garden for them.

Sándor Nyúl, 39, even made tiny picnic tables complete with parasols, pool tables and a piano to entice a colony of black squirrels into his garden.

The squirrel fanatic, from Histon, Cambs, England also put out a tiny bin so his friends can recycle responsibly.

He scatters peanuts around the venue and waits for his friends to arrive.

Unemployed Sándor used to admire his bushy-tailed friends from afar until about six months ago.

He said: "I used to love them from afar.

"I had a hard time making friends with wild squirrels. It started as my own entertainment.

"Then I started making friends with them and I decided to buy them a funny garden.

"Now they come when I am outside, but they only accept me.

"If there is a stranger in the garden, they don't come."

The pub garden outside Sándor's backdoor step is now complete featuring miniature plants, a painted toilet, a red British telephone box and even a pool.

Sándor has even made a sign saying "Welcome Nyúl pub" and "day free Mogyoro" which means peanuts in Hungarian.

He has named his regular punters Kormi, Kormika, Bolhàs and Szürke.

He is now regularly joined by black squirrels, who populate Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, as well as the occasional American grey squirrel.