Max is an absolute little doll. Thanks for sharing pictures of him. We had a little squirrel that we raised when I was young too. It and his sister fell from a tree that we had to cut down. Poor little things fell from their nest when the tree went down, mommy no where in sight. Same as Max's situation, his little sister did not make it. It's funny, we never worried about a permit or releasing him into the wild, because where we lived, we just knew that he was too tame to make it on his own for long. And as for a permit, we just never thought of it. We just thought we were doing the best thing for him. Maybe I am aging myself here, we didn't know about permits back then. And, I'm really not that old, (before you start teasing me! hee hee)