Squirrels are funny.

[Rabrrrrrr]

I like to put peanuts out on the patio (lanai) for the squirrels and other animals. I have a squirrel that will come and get them - and he usually follows a pattern of eating on while sitting on top of a lawn chair, eating another one while standing on top of the grill, eating another just hanging out on the cement, then taking a peanut and going off somewhere with it.

I love it when he (or she) sits on the lawn chair, because it's a rocking one, and in the wind the squirrel goes back and forth like the top of a boat mast.

Cool.

[johnnie]

1. Yeah, really funny

They tore up my house to get in the attic, I repaired it and they tore it up again. They have shredded my house and when I walk outside and I am there, they look at me and laugh. I know they are laughing. My next step is slaughter. x(

[Kali]

3. I just caught one in a live aniimal trap this afternoon.

I have an old upright freezer on the back porch that I use for storing my beer brewing equipment because rodents can't easily get into it. Well naturally a packrat took up residence UNDER it and I have been fighting a succession of them for a while now. They had gotten wise to the snap traps so I switched to the have-a-heart and just offing them myself (I don't have-a-heart when it comes to rodents chewing up my shit and leaving their messes all over my house, sorry)

So I just caught a young rock squirrel. argghhh Not sure what I should do with it. They have been tormenting the dogs a lot lately and I know there are plenty more, but I am not sure I am up to dispatching the cute little guy. damn!

[VLC]

12. Unbelievable.

Just let him go.

[Kali]

36. what is unbelievable?

[libodem]

2. They are flat squirrelly sometimes

Some of the funniest action I've seen is watching them chase each other up, down and around tree trunks.

[LaraMN]

4. My mom used to feed the neighborhood squirrels peanuts.

They decided my little sister's toes looked like nuts and would chase her around the yard, while she screamed and I laughed.
I also used to chase her with the vacuum, and tell her our parents were dead, when I was babysitting.
She still likes me.

:P

[TK421]

17. That sounds a little like my sisters and I growing up!

:D

[zanne]

34. I used to tell my younger sister that my parents were sick of her...

And wanted to put her in an orphanage. I think she finally forgave me, but every once in a while, I still hear about it.

[Parche]

5. TASER IT NEXT TIME

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Critters2]

6. LOL!!

:rofl:

[KG]

7. last year i was putting out peanut for squirrels, but blue-jays would grab them and

take them to different hidey places. there the peanuts sat, the blue-jays would never come back for them. interseting behavior pattern to observe.

[ironflange]

27. Similar story

I once saw a squirrel come along and bury a peanut in a lawn; he then departed the scene. Unbeknownst to him, a magpie had observed this, and once the squirrel was gone, the bird came over, dug up the peanut, and flew away with it. Magpies are pretty funny, but not at 5:00 AM outside the bedroom window.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. One of my squirrel visitors has been parasitized...

Poor thing has nasty-looking bot fly tumors. :(

[lateo]

9. I do this too

We have become friends with our squirrel we call her Baby. She will actually come up to the window and door and tap on it when she wants some food.

[DarkTirade]

10. I used to feed squirrels near the music building on campus back when I was in college

one of them got to trust me enough that she'd eat right out of my hand.
One day I only had enough money to get a burger and nothing else, so I didn't have any squirrel food to give away. I was eating, right where I usually sat, when I felt something tugging at my pants leg. I looked down... and there was that same squirrel, looking up at me, trying to get my attention.
I ended up finding a bit of the bun that didn't have burger grease on it to give her, but that was all I had. :P

[stuntcat]

15. squirrel sweetness

that's the best story :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[DarkTirade]

30. I'm fairly certain she was pregnant too, because she kept getting a bigger and bigger tummy every

time I saw her for a little while, then I didn't see her for another little while.

Either that, or the fast food made her fat. :)

[ThingsGottaChange]

11. Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmfrost%2Etypepad%2Ecom%2Fcute%5Foverload%2F2007%2Fweek38%2Findex%2Ehtml

[BlueJazz]

13. That's a Riot !!!!...You should post this on a new thread..It's Great!

Thanks for the laughs!

[DS1]

21. check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrAuN65Pvo

[stuntcat]

28. omg seagull smarty!

I love it! :loveya:

[stuntcat]

14. omg, the BEST

:D
I have a gang of squirrels but I haven't gotten them to learn tricks. I can sometimes get them to take a nut from me though :D

[TK421]

16. You know how most people consider these things pests, but I appreciate

them, especially while I was living at my grandmother's house for six years. She had an acre and a half of property as her backyard, and there would be deer and the occasional fox. Squirrels have always been cool with me...just watching them interact with each other.

My one uncle hand-feeds them..we call him the Squirrel Whisperer, because the things seem to trust him implicitly and have no fear of him at all.

[stuntcat]

26. right on :)

my husband's called me squirrel whisperer a lot!
I've only gotten them to eat from my hand 2 or 3 times though and that was years ago, now I've stopped trying, I just feed them all year, I've done it since 2001 so now I feel responsible for them all.

One of the only times I got them to take nuts from me the squirrel bit my finger real gently as it took the nut. I think it was testing me somehow, he just brushed his teeth over my skin, but it's an animal and I shouldn't project stuff like that on it.

[DS1]

18. I like squirrels

I have to respect something that small which is unafraid to chuck acorns at humans. Gotta love the fight in them.

[Lethe]

23. definitely

there is a 3 legged squirrel that lives next to me. One of his front legs is missing. But even so, he don't take any crap. He will chatter with the best of them. He is not afraid of anything.

[DS1]

24. right on, tripod!

you can call him that, you have my permission

[stuntcat]

25. wow the squirrel rocks!

If I had my arm pulled ripped or gnawed off and couldn't go to a doctor I'd have to probably die.

[DarkTirade]

31. I'd rather have acorns flung at me than what monkeys tend to fling... :)

[wildhorses]

19. nice

really nice.

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Have you seen "Daylight Robbery"?

[bridgit]

22. i'm on it...

[question everything]

29. Yes, and also when

s/he is sprawled all over a chair, or a bench, to kinda spread its scent, I suppose. And s/he does it almost with a defiance, looking at me "whatcha looking at?"

[alphafemale]

32. Ya Wanta see something really funny? Put out some Spaghetti for them.

They feed it in. Strand by strand. Suck it up little dude.

[MissHoneychurch]

33. Do they do this?

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Oh, man - I never thought of giving them light sabers!

That would be totally cool!

[halobeam]

37. I watched one squirrel running from another squirrel

holding an entire piece of pizza in it's mouth. (It was almost as big as he was) and they really had a chase going on... across my lawn, across my neighbors lawn and completely back again.

One of the funniest things I've ever seen them do!