Silly rodents

[jhetley]

A number of houses still display pumpkins, carved and otherwise, from Halloween.  Pumpkins are food.  Therefore, the squirrels gnaw at them.  Anyway, just went out for a walk around the neighborhood and discovered one of the culprits in the act.  The tree-rat then jumped in through the mouth of the jack-o-lantern, bushy tail vanishing between the teeth, and then popped up through the lid to keep a beady rodent-eye on me until I had passed beyond safe distance...

Comments

[vincam.livejournal.com]

Pumpkins are food, yes. I generally bake my jack-o-lanterns the day after Halloween, puree them, and freeze the puree for pumpkin pies at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Good stuff, Maynard.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Most of the pumpkins still out have ceased to look like food -- mold and frostbite leading to terminal collapse. Always amazes us how folks leave them out until I'd want a shovel...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That really needed pictures. :)

In related news, we have just discovered we have red squirrels in back of our new property.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I don't carry a camera with me. This may change if that sort of thing keeps happening.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yup, I know, I don't routinely carry a camera with me either except for my cell phone, and there's several times I've regretted that.

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

What an awesome image!!