Ananova:

A squirrel slipped into a bird feeder to steal some nuts - but then was too fat to get out.

He managed to squeeze through the narrow metal mesh bird feeder and feast on the nuts inside but after eating too much but became wedged in the bars.

As he struggled the spherical feeder toppled of its wooden pole and fell 6ft to the ground and started falling towards a stream. Luckily it stopped short of the water before he was spotted by a local woman.

Liz Loftus from Bideford, Devon and her daughter Fiona, 19, came to the squirrel's rescue reports the Daily Mail.

Fiona said: "We spotted him climbing up the pole and scurrying around trying to find a way in.

"He's so cute that we didn't mind that he was trying to pinch the nuts that are meant for the birds. But later we found him on the ground with his head and front paws out of his feeder and his stomach wedged in the mess."

The squirrel was taken to a local vet where within an hour he was back to normal.