After feasting on too many fermented crabapples , a drunk squirrel has been filmed struggling to escape a snowy American backyard . Its torment begins when he takes a tumble off a tall tree he would usually traverse so gracefully . At first , the cameraman thinks the animal has hurt itself in the fall but soon realises it simply ca n't hold his crabapple . Misery : The squirrel 's problems begin when it falls from a tall tree into a snowy back garden in America . Fall : At first , the cameraman thinks the animal is hut but soon realises the small rodent is simply drunk . Daunting : The drunk squirrel eyes up the challenge ahead - a small mound of snow between him and an open fence . His next great challenge is the small mound of snow between him and the open fence in an American backyard - a simple task made very difficult by his inebriated state . Several attempts to charge up the hill end in failure - leaving the resilient rodent lying flat on his back gazing up at the branches he fell from earlier . He seems to have found a solution to his never-ending escape attempt when he targets a different region of the snow to the left - but several more attempts also end in failure . In a sober state , the squirrel may simply have strolled around the fence which ended just a few feet to the right . The shaky footage has gone viral since being uploaded to Live Leak and YouTube where it has already gained tens of thousands of hits . After a few minutes of persistent climbing , the squirrel finally reaches the top of the tiny expanse of snow and rushes home - presumably to get some rest . Persistent : The little animal continuously charges at the small mound of snow but always ends up flat on his back . Escape : Finally , after minutes of continuous jumping - much of it on the spot - it reaches the fence it could simply have walked around . Freedom : With a similar lack of grace , the squirrel darts through the fence and up a slightly easier hill .
It tries and fails continuously to escape from snow American back garden . The video has gone viral with over 100,000 hits since surfacing on YouTube . But the drunk squirrel struggles to climb small mound of snow to escape . After a few minutes of persistence , it makes it to open fence and runs home .