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Old August 16th 18, 10:14 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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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/

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