Sunday, April 04, 2021

Beware of squirrels

A friend told us tonight that his Easter egg hunt this morning failed. Squirrels had a 2-hour head start at finding the plastic eggs with chocolates inside, and devoured the lot. The play-money auction also failed, because the girls printed themselves more money than the boys did.

2 comments:

The Mad Soprano said...

Let's hope that squirrel didn't get sick. I'm not sure what effect all that sugar would have on its system.

SJBC said...

I often put bread and cookie crumbs on the back patio steps for the birds, and the squirrels are constantly checking them out. A few years ago I brought some cake from a party at work home for my wife; she didn't like the thick too-sweet icing and scraped it off, so I placed it on the step. It disappeared quickly and, when I informed my wife, she said "Oh great! You've given some squirrel diabetes!" I mentioned this whole affair to a co-worker who suggested that I "would have to go out every day and give that squirrel its little insulin shot."