Sentence1: Michael saw a squirrel living in the dumpster one day. Sentence2: When the trash was taken to the landfill, the squirrel was gone! Sentence3: A few weeks later, Michael saw another squirrel in the dumpster. Sentence4: Michael hoped the new squirrel would fare better than the first.
2, He thought it was a cute way for the squirrel to say warm.