Video of Squirrel Waterskiing at Mall of America Leaves Internet Shocked

Twiggy, an eastern gray squirrel, made headlines for water skiing at the Mall of America in the United States. For those who don’t know, water skiing is a high-speed surface water sport where a skier is towed at high speed behind a powerboat. A video of this spectacle went viral on Twitter.

The video shows the adorable squirrel wearing a swimsuit and riding a small remote-controlled boat while balancing his feet on it. The spectators are seen filming this incident on the cameras and are very fascinated by it. One of the photographers is seen taking a close-up of Twiggy using a camera supported by a stabilizer.

A person in the pool, Twiggy’s owner, lightly pushes this squirrel probably to give his boat more speed in the skiing process. The video ends with the eastern gray squirrel completing the ski without losing his balance during the entire run. This is a testament to the fact that Twiggy has been fully trained in water sports. This clip has accumulated 9.8 million views.

Social media users had many interesting reactions to this clip. One tweeted: “The best part is he works for peanuts.” Indeed, peanuts constitute the staple diet of squirrels.

Another tweeted: “When you realize a squirrel will have more skills than you could imagine.”

Twiggy, Inc. is a family-owned business, and the current Twiggy is the fourth squirrel with that nickname to be taught to water ski by Florida couple Toni Marie Tedesco, 36, and her husband, Chuck Best Jr, 41 . In an interview with Caters News, Toni said her husband Chuck was raised that way. According to Toni, it was her husband’s parents who started Twiggy the water skiing squirrel. “For my part, I’ve been doing this for two years,” said the 36-year-old.

Chuck Best Jr.’s parents, Chuck Best Sr. and Lou Ann Best, rescued the original Twiggy in 1978 after the animal was displaced from its nest by a hurricane.