Re: Squirrels have a new home!

Ron Hudson wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:31:59 -0500, "MaryL"
<stancole1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I enjoy watching the squirrels. I use squirrel-proof feeders (which have worked very well) because they are little gluttons and I can't afford to feed them as much as they would like, but I actually like the fact that they are able to get some of the "left-overs." Many birds throw seed onto the ground, and I also scatter some (just as you described). It's fine with me that the squirrels and birds share that seed. The squirrels will also hang upside-down on the outside of a tube feeder within a cage. The cage is large enough that the squirrels can't reach the seed ports, but they will reach inside to the floor of the cage and scrape seed out. That keeps the cage clean so I don't have to do it myself! They are rodents, so I certainly don't want them in my house, <snip>

One of our five cats brought a days-old baby squirrel into the house to us a
couple of years ago, so we raised it in the house over the winter. It was like
having a whole entertainment center to watch. He would blaze through the room
and leap through the air to land on and bounce off of our old tomcat Buddy
(nickname Mr. Cranky) and bound out of the room before Buddy had come back down
to the floor. Inside or outside the cats would chase him and then he would
chase them. Haven't seen him in a while -- he either became a traveling man or
someone took him out for dinner.

I bottle-raised a squirrel that had fallen out of a tree in The Bronx. (My physician set his leg under her fluoroscope.) He wasn't allowed the run of the house, but lived in my second-floor room in a thin wooden box with an open top next to an open window. He soon learned to climb down the ivy, but the box remained his nest. Outdoors, he played with out cat. Lots of fun.

He was gray. The squirrels in the tree in my back yard, and in much of the neighborhood were black. They must have accepted him, though, because in a year or two after he moved out of my room, most of the back-yard squirrels were gray.

Jerry
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