Is that a bird or an iguana?
Yard rats. They are smarter than they look. In fact, nearly everything is except Joe, Nancy, kameltoe, and Chuckie. IMNSHO. :)
Squirrels don’t seem like they would make a good pet
I have seen many portraits with people holding Ferrets and even Minks. Usually, the human in the portrait appears to be wealthy. I haven’t seen paintings with Squirrels as pets, but then I wasn’t going around in search of such portrayals.
Some landlords will allow their tenant to have Ferrets, even another animal usually seen only in the wild, Sugar Gliders, a sort of nocturnal Tree Possum.
I know Brenda had a pet beaver.
I remember kids in the oil and gas camps in the West having pet chipmunks in their pocket.
Around here, they’re more popular as food.
Might find the occasional raccoon as a pet though.
Oh look! A squirrel!
Excuse me, but your birdfeeder is empty.
Which would explain the annoyed part.
From National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation after the runaway squirrel scene:
Clark Griswold: “Where’s Eddie? He usually eats these things.”
Catherine, Eddie’s wife: “Oh, not recently. He read that squirrels are high in cholesterol.”
The site is very well done with interesting writing. Thank you for posting. It also has a number of relevant articles on fungi which I have used in a publication.
America was scenic and picturesque — nature and woodland reveries for the folks. Then something bad happened: They took in some Communists and Marxists and sh!t began to happen.
With the Marxists God was despised. People went to university and lost all their Christian upbringing and became full-fledged Marxist — without even knowing so. One race was pitted against another race — class warfare — and that became know as identity politics. The Christian white race which brought in the Marxist soon learnt that they were racists. They learnt to shut up or be threaten with cancel culture, threaten by BLM and Antifa. They learned that they couldn’t defend themselves, that America was an evil country. They learned that justice only favored a certain people with ethnic, sexual and racial grievances against America, favored the rich Democrats, favored the people in charge. All the problems brought the country to a state of terrible unrest and an undeclared civil war.
The squirrels liked America of old. They would never have let in the Marxists. They would never have taken pity on that little viper who has grown up in the universities and turned them into a snake pit of their own deadly kind.
Watch out for squirrel ladies.
They are nuttier than cat ladies
~The Janitor
Prairie dogs are cute, but one can’t keep them as pets, because they carry Plague.
Bernie Goetz likes them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjF5ccIrP8Q
My old aunt (deceased now for fifteen years) referred to squirrels as ‘bushy-tailed rats’. She cheered on all the cats in the neighbourhood, in their squirrel hunts.