Don’t feed wild animals
January 24, 2009
I went out to the garage to do some stuff today and this little critter wouldn’t leave me alone. He stayed under my feet while I was looking for some lumber, and I was afraid that I’d step on him.
From his behavior I’d guess that MrsDoF has befriended him (or her – I didn’t look that closely).
The title of this post may be overly broad; lots of people have bird feeders, and that’s usually OK. But some critters can be a big problem so it’s a bad idea to feed them. Squirrels, raccoons, mice, crows, geese, all fall into this category.
He wouldn’t leave me alone, so I gave him a granola bar.
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hmm, I started at a new place this fall and I noticed the dang squirrels were a much more squirrelly than normal.
It turns out that the oaks in the area hardly produced any nuts, and the poor things were going crazy because they didn’t have a thing to store.
This was confirmed when I saw a dray of squirrels diving a dumpster two weeks ago.
With only a little mast,they’ll be some skinny squirrels come spring
One day a friend emailed me in a panic. “The squirrels are climbing all over my screens of my sunroom! What should I do?”
Well, it turned out that every morning, for months, she’d been opening the screen door and throwing out sunflower seeds for the squirrels. She also provided a heated water dish, for the squirrels, just outside the door.
Her question seemed so absurd I honestly thought she was kidding!
He wouldn’t leave you alone so you gave him a granola bar? That’s a decent snack for a human. That’s a huge meal for a squirrel!