When you find a critter in your tree...

[mwhitnee]

So I'm a speech pathologist and have a second job seing little kids in their homes in early intervention. Went to see a new 2 yr old today at his house.

This kid's dad cuts wood and found baby squirrels in a felled tree. One of the baby squirrels did not vacate by the end of the day so it became a pet.

Comes out and plays, doesn't bite. I fed it a peanut today lol. I love the cage he made.

 

[blades]

Hope he got it a bunch of shots those buggers carry a bunch of nasties to the human system

 

[mwhitnee]

Nope no shots. Do they pose a huge health threat? http://www.squirrel-attic.com/diseases.html This site says not really but after reading what they said not so sure.

I would never have one, but thought it was pretty interesting.

I had such a squirrel problem at my last house with them getting into the trash. It took a lot to not dispose of them permanently. I was in the city and it didn't matter if I caught 3 a week and released them, there would always be more.

 

[Paulywalnut]

They are cute but still they're tree rats. I guess they have a purpose. Mostly to annoy me all winter.

 

[Jay106n]

My yard squirrels are feasting on the Hickory tree nuts right now. Driving me crazy and they throw them at me when I mow my lawn...

 

[bag of hammers]

They hang off the tree trunks just out of reach and have "conversations" with my dog. One kamikaze black squirrel miscalculated a jump over the snow bank in front of her on a walk last year and she picked it out of mid air. She didn't kill it but couple shakes and flung it over the bank, that little guy was doing @50mph after that. They show up in 3's and 4's in my back yard and torture her, so for her it was a bit of payback I guess....

 

[Oldman47]

Comes out and plays, doesn't bite. I fed it a peanut today lol. I love the cage he made.

When I was a kid growing up I thought squirrels were tame. We fed the ones in our yard peanuts and they would almost come take them out of our hands. A kid on the next block over told me I was crazy so I took a bag of peanuts to his house. A couple of hours later the little tree rats in his yard were also close to being hand fed.

 

[TedyOH]

They are cute but still they're tree rats. I guess they have a purpose. Mostly to annoy me all winter.

For me their purpose is to replace the chicken in my soup.

 

[edge-of-the-woods]

For me their purpose is to replace the chicken in my soup.

My dad used to hunt them with his lab, and eat them. He trained the dog to circle around the tree, so the squirrel would circle back towards him. Pop!

 

[Paulywalnut]

I saw one prepared to eat, but I couldn't do it. Looked too much like a cat

 

[TedyOH]

My dad used to hunt them with his lab, and eat them. He trained the dog to circle around the tree, so the squirrel would circle back towards him. Pop!

Nice - my lab is a stick, toss it on the other side of the tree

I saw one prepared to eat, but I couldn't do it. Looked too much like a cat

It helps if you take the fur off or skin it first!

 

[CenterTree]

I saw one prepared to eat, but I couldn't do it. Looked too much like a cat

So, what's wrong with "cat"?

 

[BrotherBart]

So, what's wrong with "cat"?