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In article >,
lid says...
> TFM® wrote:
> >
> >
> > "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> jmcquown > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let
> >>> my cat
> >>> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
> >>
> >> I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
> >> lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
> >> I know of.
> >>
> >> -sw
> >
> > I had one. Jasmine was her name.
> >
> > I came home and saw her with jaws clinched on the squirrel's neck.
> >
> > When I approached her, she got skeered I was gonna steal her squirrel..
> >
> > I backed off and went back to the truck for the camera. I have the
> > pictures on one of these hard drives...
> >
> > Just take my word for it.
> >
> >
> > TFM®
>
> When I still lived with my parents in The Bronx, before I got married, I
> had a squirrel that lived on my fire escape in a little house that a
> carpenter made for it. It was a wild animal, but learned to trust me
> and came into the apartment when I opened the window, to get nuts and
> other foods, as well as to steal anything shiny in the room.
>
> The building superintendent had the sad chore to tell me that a stray
> cat had killed it, after it had lived safely on the fire escape for
> almost two years.
>
> In its little home, besides a large cache of nuts and other foods such
> as dry cereals, I also found my watch, a pair of tweezers, a pair of
> eyeglasses and lots of shiny coins.
>
> I always wondered afterwards, whether it had gotten too trusting and
> whether that had contributed to its death (remember the warning in "The
> Little Prince about taming wild animals?).
>

A friend asked me to house sit one time. He and his SO had a pet
squirrel.

Nasty little bugger until I fed him then all of a sudden he was my best
friend.

Speaking of squirrels, did you know that in some areas people eat ground
squirrel meat?