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Old August 17th 18, 12:50 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Bill Stock[_2_]
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On Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 5:14:16 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
On 8/16/2018 4:40 PM, Bill Stock wrote:
I was looking out the back door yesterday and there was a black squirrel splayed out on the deck sunning itself. I was surprised by how relaxed it looked. We don't have red squirrels here, just the larger black and grey squirrels. But this year we actually have a red squirrel and it's a real runt. Even smaller than the red squirrels I remember as a kid. It's also has a serious screw loose, it will attack anything and even bitch at you while it's eating the peanuts we feed the birds. Where do you think the peanuts come from genius?

Quite a few years ago there was a baby black squirrel that lost it's mother, so we sort of adopted it. It would come to the door every day looking for its peanuts. One day I made the mistake of trying to feed it by hand. Did you know that squirrels have very poor close up vision? Ouch.

Did you hear about the guy in Germany who called the cops last week
because he was being chased by a squirrel? Turns out it was a baby who
had gotten separated from it's mother. Authorities think it was trying
to "bond" with the first creature it saw, which happened to be a man
walking down the street.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ice/961931002/


So, I'm a Skwirrel Mama? LOL.


I have a small bird bath on my back patio. It's very hot in South
Carolina this time of year so the birds drink and splash around in it
and the grey squirrels drink from it. One day last week I saw a
squirrel next to the bird bath go flat next to it. Turned out there was
a white-tail deer walking by. I guess the squirrel thought if it made
itself flat the deer wouldn't notice it. I had no idea squirrels are
afraid of deer. LOL

Jill


Squirrels can be skittish. We got one stuck in our fireplace and I was worried about how I was going to get it out. So I put my suit of armor on, but it was so petrified that I could just pick it up and put it out the door.

Our current incarnation of the pond has a 'wishing well' and the little birds like to sit on the plumbing and get a drink. The Robins dive right in and take a bath. I'm not too sure how the robins avoid getting sucked out the overflow. Nowhere close to SC, but it's still been a warm summer.

An older version of the pond was much shallower with sides that let the Raccoons dine and dash. So I put an electric fence around the pond. Unfortunately the fence was too close to the waterfall, so the Robins could stand in the waterfall and touch the fence. You can guess what happened to the Robin.. :-( The current pond is much deeper with steep sides, so the Herons can't stand on the bottom and the Raccoons no longer have have fish takeout.