Where is my cane?!? Or my walker?!? I need something to shake in the air while yelling like a mad woman. Nothing like pesky squirrels to make you feel like the crazy old lady in the neighborhood.
Exhibit A
This is the small bird feeder outside my kitchen window. I love watching the chickadees and meadow larks hoping around the feeder in the morning. I do not love finding Mr. Squirrel hording the feeder. Dude, you are fat enough. Lay off the birdseed.
Exhibit B
This picture was taken a few minutes after the first one. This is a completely different bird feeder and a completely different squirrel. Notice how this guy just knocked the lid right off the top and helped himself to handfuls of birdseed. Seriously dude, that is just rude. But wait, it gets worse.
Exhibit C
Also a completely different bird feeder and a completely different squirrel. This picture was taken a few minutes after the picture before. I had three squirrels helping themselves to my not-so-cheap birdseed all at the same time!
Oh the huge manatee! By the way, I think I should stop and tell you I have become a bit of a bird person lately. Now that spring is here we are spending much more time outside. I love sitting on our back porch watching the birds flock to our feeders. Thanks to the small wilderness behind our house we have quite the variety of feathered friends. So far I have spotted red winged blackbirds, brewer’s blackbirds, cardinals, blue jays, meadow larks, chickadees, a variety of sparrows, wrens, robins, finches, mockingbirds and one giant crane. My mom is a bit of a bird person too, I think her influence has rubbed off on me. (Someone else made the comment that I was turning into my mother. That someone else who shall remain nameless also got the cold shoulder later that night.)
But back to the squirrel problem…
Finally I did what any annoyed crazy old neighbor lady would do, I released the hounds. Ok, the hound. Servo loves him some squirrel chasing. Notice I said chasing PETA. He has never actually caught one and thanks to the doggie door he has to go through first he really doesn’t stand a chance. That is of course if the squirrels lay off the food. Pretty soon those pests are going to get so fat Servo might actually catch one.
I guess I should just be thankful it’s not three raccoons in my backyard. (Knock on wood times 1,000. Karma don’t you dare push me this week!)
I think squirrels are kinda cute, but then again, we don’t get too many of them in the high desert. We do, however, get Canadian Geese. When I first moved to Reno, I thought they were so pretty. Now I want all of them to die, damn bad natured poop machines.
Too funny. Those pesky bas-turds!! I would release the hounds too. I would love to see Kingsley and Servo tag-team those greedy squirrels!
Oh how I hate those squirrels! A friend of mine found an awesome bird feeder that actually spins super fast when anything heavier then a cardinal jumps on it. I have seen it whip squirrels half way across the yard.
Hilarious, and helpful!