I'm not sure awakening animals is a very druidy thing to do.
It seems like a pretty druidy thing to do to me. Remember that druid magic is divinely channeled from nature itself. Their magical effects are therefore not "unnatural" the way arcane meddling or necromancy would be. A druid who chooses to awaken a squirrel is giving them a precious gift from nature itself to bestow them with reason beyond their normal capacity so they might better understand the druid's needs and, by extension, the needs of nature as a whole.
