Squirrels, Cute or a Pest?

Wow, I'm so sorry about the attack on your dog. Was there a nest nearby? Yes they can be vicious, most people don't realize that. One baby one dig walk up to my dad in the garage awhile back and he picked it up, and could hold it as if it were already domesticated. We tried to bring it to a guy who handles many kinds of animal rescues and such in town but he said to just let it go. My dad brought it up to his ex-co-worker's home where there are a ton of squirrels and it ran so fast up one of the trees. I hope it survived. I had made a video of my dad holding it too but cant find it now. My friend on FB just tried to rescue a baby one recently or so and she said she got bit.

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I'm not sure if there was a nest near by, but it chewed everything up, and ate our food. That is so cute, I hope it survived. Being a baby could also make it more trustworthy, and allowing of people.

Now that think about it, they will eat the pumpkin seeds, I had them here doing that one year awhile back--I almost forgot about it. The only plants we get from them is the oak trees and acorn trees from them "planting" acorns and such. We don't want those, they end up being more added 'weeds' to pull, sigh. I have only seen a few chipmunks around and not in the past few years, they were after the sunflower seeds from the few larger sunflowers we had grown.

We actually have some gourds this year that we suspect were gifts from the squirrels, because we never had them (or planted them) before. We do get random trees too, and yes, they just become weeds. As for the lack of chipmunks in your yard. . . count your blessings!

I love gourds, tell them to come here and plant those! :-D But then the ground hogs would probably eat those too. OK, will count my blessing with those chipmunks, you seem to know what you're talking about with those.

Yea, my dad calls them tree rats. So thats about the same opinion on them. I feel bad for any animals killed on the road as well, it's such a sad way to die.

It might be a thing where if you live out of the country you don't have them, & yes they are pretty much a rodent. Where do you live? They don't eat much vegetation really, they do chews wires sometimes, eat the bird's food, and such like that most of the time. They will bury thing like acorns all around and thats why we find a stray acorn tree growing here and there in the Spring.

Be careful of a nest to remove them from, especially if there are babies. They can rip any one to shreds if that happens. They are pretty much cute but they do do damage here and there. What kind of vegetables did they eat that you grew?

That is one cute squirrel, I guess there is no garden where you live though? I bet he goes into the other gardens and digs, etc to find his food? I'm glad you give him water and like having him in the tree.

I wouldn't pay that much mind to them either if it weren't for them getting into these particular pots I have, I had to pot some of my plants up like that to protect them from the other critters and keep them, closer to the house-- from the groundhogs. It seems like a battle of eternity with these animals here. The squirrels will get close to the house, they don't care and even get into a house if they find a place to do that. Luckily that has never happened here. You don't want to disturb a nest with baby squirrels in them with the momma squirrel around, either. They are vicious in that circumstance.