How nutty! Montreal dad gets squirrel to yank out daughter's tooth

After six-year-old Mila Freiheit got her tooth yanked out by a drone last summer, she and her dad,David,wanted to raise the tooth-pulling stakes. And that meant recruitinga hungry,park-dwellingsquirrel.

The Montreal father-daughter duo knew it wouldn't be easy. So theywent tothecity'sWestmount Park early Wednesday morningarmed with dental floss, a granola bar,a box of tissues and of course, a few cameras.

"We waited until the tooth was good and loose and we went to the park and devised this scheme," David Freiheit said. They tied one end of thedental floss to theloose tooth, and the other end to a piece of granola bar that was placed on a park bench.

Then they waited.

To their surprise, it didn't take long for a squirrel to take the bait and snatch the treat,bringing Mila's baby tooth the one just left of her two front teethoutwith it.

They captured it all on camera and posted it to YouTube, where it has been viewed more than 90,000 times.

"We all knew it wouldn't work, but then it worked," the six-year-old told CBC News. "I was like, 'How did that work?'"

David Freiheitsaid the park is known for its friendlysquirrels: they had alreadystarted hovering soon after they set up at the park. He was worried the tooth would fall out before a squirreleven got to the granola bar.

Double digits from the tooth fairy

Soon after, Freiheit dropped his daughter off atschool, where she brought the bloody tooth and showed her friends the video of the extraction.

"They were like,'Your dad is crazy why is the tooth so bloody?'" she said.

The pairhad been brainstorming the idea eversince herlast tooth came out. Their other ideas included using a bottle rocket or having their pet pug pull it out.

The pull earned the six-year-old $10 from the tooth fairy double what she usually gets.

SquirrelTube?

The family has ahistory of having squirrelsstarin their dad's quirkyYouTubevideos. HisNovember 2014video of a squirrel snatching his GoPro camera and runningup a tree with it has been viewed 6.8 million times.

Freiheit, an activeYouTube user,has made about a dozen other squirrel videos since.

"They're cute. They are all over the place and people seem to love them," he said of the furry rodent.

"Everytime we pass a dead squirrel on the road, we always stop and pay our respects."

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