Freeloader

[ninnymary]

How in the world did you know that!?

I might even make it a "Frozen" theme one! Ha

Mary

 

[ninnymary]

Hmmmm...i wonder if I could find a teenzy, weenzy, tiny, chandelier for it?

Mary

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Cute chipmunk! We don't have any of those, just squirrels. We have red squirrels, we call them fox squirrels and gray, we call them cat squirrels. Then sometimes we get black ones, a rare albino and in my mom's old neighborhood, there were cat squirrels with blonde yellow tails. (whazzup with that?)

I happens. Back when I was a student at Cornell, there used to be a grey with an apricot tail that lived outside the campus store. There was also a really weird one up by the green houses (never came down close enough to get a real close look but you could see him or her in the trees if you sat on one of the benches for a while looking up. Looked like what you would get if a grey squirrel and a chipmunk had a love child. Imagine a squirrel with reddish fur (note: as far as I know, there are NO red squirrels in Ithaca) and only about half to a third the size an adult grey squirrel should be(I saw him over three or four years, so I can confirm he could not have been a juvenile) But with the bushy tail, so I know it wasn't a chipmunk.
Now in our yard we also have "Leaper". "Leaper" is a squirrel who has almost no tail, just a little bob like a rabbit) (whether he lost the rest or never had it, I don't know) Without the tail he spends a lot of time on the ground, eating almost like a rabbit. The weird thing is he also move like a rabbit. His back legs are unusually long for a squirrel so he actually does move in a very rabbit like manner. Plus he's actually a bit BIGGER than most of the squirrels around here, so he's more or less rabbit sized too.)
Oh and speaking of chipmunks while trolling pictures to answer some questions for this reply, I discovered that there actually are such things as melanistic (i.e. "black") chipmunks as well. Those are even cuter (and this is coming from someone who has a deep frustrated animosity towards his 'munks)

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Squirrels were my nemesis in the SF Bay Area, with all the old growth trees. They ate everything. Up here in the foothills, I'll see one or two and they don't bother my garden. They and the jays like the acorns and the pinecones.