This is my freind, Deb feeding squirrels in her backyard. She didn't even raise them, they're just so greedy they've learned to eat out of her hand. Cute. That middle pic cracks me up. Deb is the one who called me about baby Pete. I'm sure glad she did.
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There's a huge chunk of green space/wilderness in a suburb of Montreal called Angrignon Park. It's basically walking paths, several manmade lakes of varying sizes, benches, tables, and trees, trees, trees. It's a great place to have a picnic or barbecue. Needless to say, it's Squirrel Mecca. They've become extremely bold, and if you even pretend to have food with you, they'll swarm you. They could almost do the squirrel version of The Birds in that park.
CapriciousCat
I know exactly what you mean CapriciousCat. I've been to that Park. I like squirrels, but never again will I feed them. About 2 years ago I felt sorry for the one or two I'd see around my yard during winter and bought a huge bag of squirrel peanuts and started feeding them...It turned into a nightmare really fast. My yard was FULL, no shit I don't know where they all came from and they were all fighting with one another, huge fur ball rolling vicious fights. The next spring they were all back in my yard digging up the whole frigging back yard looking for nuts they had buried (or thought they did, they just dug everywhere) I had no lawn to speak of that summer and holes dug just everywhere.They had cleaned out all of my bulb garden and I had no spring flowers at all that year. It was terrible LOL! I now admire them from afar.
Those pics are cute though especially the middle one, what a face LOL!
Susan
Susan, you had me cracking up! Are there many raccoons in your neighbourhood? What about chipmunks? My mother has raccoons going through the garbage a little bit. But I feed a few stray cats at her place, and that seems to keep them from getting too rambunctious. We had a squirrel in the house once. It found its way down the chimney and into the basement from a vent. Well, my 82 year old mother called me to say a squirrel was in the house. I thought, she's finally lost it. Nope! With the cat's help (he was having a field day), I tracked the poor fella down to my mother's bedroom. He leaped onto the curtain rod to get away from me, so I opened the window and the poor guy jumped from the second floor down into the snow, then scampered off towards the nearest tree. We have since screened off the chimney.
CapriciousCat
that last pix is incredibly cute!!!
i have 4 squirrel feeders in my yard....i love to watch them and it's so funny when they start their 'chattering'....
middle pic cracks me up too. Is he saying thats "Yucky"? Hilarious.
a guy I work with said he was up at 3:30 one morning last week trying to get rid of a squirrel that his cat thot it had killed and had drug into the sun porch. It must have come-to and went berserk. He had to deal with the nearly dead squirrel, as it tried in vain not to die. Sad.
Susan...you were cracking me up too. They must be greedy little boogers!!! I bet they got fat off of your peanuts! thats funny, but not for you I know. Good story. Sounds like the moles I have year 'round! Gawd, what a nuisance!
Glad I cracked some of you up with my tale of woe and yard work. It is funny when I think of it today but not so much back then. Gawd did we have a lot of work to do in the yard that year. It is amazing the damage they can do when the come in swarms and I'm not kidding.
CapriciousCat, no I have never seen a raccoon around here or a chipmunk, but we sure do have our share of skunks. My dogs have been skunked on more than one occasion over the years. Brodie got it last year, what a stench that is. One thing about it is that once the skunk realizes there is a dog on your property, he rarely comes back.
Susan
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