Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TORONTO, April 1 (UPI) -- Sabrina the U.S.-born squirrel apparently will not be booted out of Canada, after all. Sabrina's handlers announced Friday in Toronto the celebrated flying squirrel that was imported as a baby last year can stay in Canada for good. Advertisement Steve Patterson, a Mississauga, Ont., nature-lover who purchased Sabrina for $100 in Indiana, uses the squirrel in talks with children. The government reportedly went to great lengths to try to kick out Sabrina, banned under the old law. But, Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan and Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell managed to change the Health of Animals Act after reading of Sabrina's plight, the Globe and Mail reported. They signed a regulation allowing squirrels and other recently banned rodents to be imported to Canada for "educational purposes," as long as they arrived in "a regulated fashion that poses a minimal risk to the health of Canadians."
