#squirrel 🐿️

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Sweet Bear🍬 11806   http://www.steveb29.com/2025/05/sweet-bear-11806.html

[zeebient]

OP, I know this is a metaphor, but I can’t not think about the REAL squirrel problem my house has had forever.

For probably well over a decade, my childhood home has had a problem with squirrels breaking into our attic. They figured out long ago that they could chew through the wood at the edge of the roof and make a nice home for themselves. This of course pissed off my father because they’re running around during the day when he sleeps because he works night shift, they disturb his sleep. So like a rational person, he decided to try and get rid of the squirrels. He set up an animal trap in the attic with bait and has patched the holes. It has not worked.

They chew through the repairs, even when they’re reinforced with metal it gets chewed through. The traps, although non-lethal, have killed many squirrels because apparently it causes them panic attacks and the stress kills them pretty quickly. I wouldn’t even know squirrels could die from stress if my dad hadn’t wondered why the squirrel he had barely heard caught in the trap was dead when he checked the trap immediately after. At some point he even got a pellet gun and was going to take them out but he doesn’t know anything about guns so he shot with the safety on and then it ran off and mom made him get rid of the pellet gun. They don’t care about the threat of death or the other dead squirrels they’ve probably seen.

He keeps patching up the roof, reinforcing it and they are just capable of chewing through even metal. They’ll be gone for a little while and then in the early morning, I’ll hear them in the ceiling and the walls and my dad will be complaining that they’re back. It’s been well over a decade of this being a problem and the reasonable solutions just don’t work because squirrels are little bastards.

Anyway, I think it kind of fits in with the metaphor. That it’s actually a little more complicated than you think.

Imagine inviting someone to your home as a guest and you're settling in and they say "wow, your squirrels are so quiet!" and you have to pause and ask them what the fuck they mean. The squirrels in the walls. How do you keep them so quiet and out of the way? Still not quite comprehending what you're hearing, you ask them to repeat that. Why would they think you've got squirrels in your walls.

And your guest frowns in equal confusion, incredulous that you don't have squirrels in the walls. LIke, at all? Then something clicks together in their mind and they go "oh, you do the same thing as [mutual friend] does? Patching up the wall thing? So it actually works?" and it takes you a minute to process that they don't seem to actually believe that not having holes big enough for a squirrel to get in through actually leads to not having squirrels in your house.

You verify that yes. Everyone else has fixed the squirrel problem by patching the walls. Everyone else but they actually patches the walls, and nobody else but they keeps having the squirrel problem. They're the only one who does that instead of patching the wall. Your guest is insulted by your tone, insisting that it can't be that simple and that it's completely unrealistic to always keep your walls patched or to never have a squirrel in your house ever. Everyone has a squirrel in the house sometimes. You won't win this argument.

And that's what it's like to talk with americans on the internet.

[wherethewildthingsbeen]

My mystery visitor

Definitely not my OG Kirby. Her adult baby Kerbit? Hubby Kirbett?

It can be difficult to identify even my most tame ones — even the ones who’ve visited for years — when the light is exactly the opposite of just right (just entirely all wrong). It’s that time of afternoon on a grey day when all color and detail meld into washed out dark blobs.

Tail: mottled and a little bit wispy, with a dark stripe and orange halo. This tells me it’s possibly papa Kirbett.

Tummy: no idea

Cheeks: no idea except one very dark beauty mark below the right ear

Overall color: too dark to tell

Talks? 100%.

Look at all this gabbing and gossiping. Alas, I still don’t speak squirrel. 🐿️ But as long as I’m moving my mouth with words, so will [he]. Which again tells me it might be Kirbett. Very talkative from years of familiarity. Kirbett is also the boldest of the bold. He’ll come right up to the glass and stare at me balefully, until I feel guilty and go buy more seeds.

Kirbett’s guilt trip game is strong. If I’m taking too long putting on my muck boots, he will wait right there at the window making sure that I don’t break eye contact. Then takes a few steps away, then comes back to the glass to make sure I’m still planning to come out. Back a few steps, forward a few steps, holding my gaze all the while, back and forth, back and forth, just to hold me accountable for definitely 100% still coming out to refill the sunflower seeds. 🌻

It might help if I clean the glass. 🤦‍♀️🤗

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Spider- squirrel

[bigpapajasper01]

[tinydancerfreelancersblog]

Part ✌️! Yay!

[meganmb23]

When you try to sleep for eight hours straight, and recognize your friend is staying up late 

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Purple Angel💜 12163   http://www.steveb29.com/2025/05/purple-angel-12163.html

[factual-fantasy]

Artistic rendition of the squirrel I saw the other day right after it dumped rain for like 20 minutes

[wolfspaw]

[lazyrezi]

[stoner-catdad]

It ended up waking up and jumping down like 2-3 flights of stairs. All you heard was "splat". He was okay though!

[beelur]

[famousfishathletecookie]

Белочка…:)