Squizzles!

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I’m happy to hear that.
The dog is disappointed to hear that.

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Is the French part a lie too?

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“May I help you, ma’am?”

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My wife was sleeping downstairs with the cats, I was upstairs sleeping.

Mr. Feral/racoon watcher woke up my wife who woke me up and off we went to chase off that pesky racoon.

Here’s the racoon trying again but this time momma cleared the house and the babies scattered.

Everyone was safe, momma sat here for a couple hours keeping watch.

That’s not the house they’re in, that’s the house the racoon originally raided but she has an excellent view of any predators approaching.

Yesterday afternoon the babies were all on the ground playing near the base of the tree. Momma wasn’t around so they snuck out. Then out of nowhere momma came running and chased them back up to the house.

I suspect she was watching and knew exactly where they were.

We’re learning first hand just how smart squirrels are.

We spent quite a bit of time watching the babies play, I’ll post some photos later.

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Here they are. We were very nervous watching them play, some of these were well over 50 feet up.

I resized these to save bandwith, I hope the owner of this site doesn’t mind all the photos.

This is our slice of heaven view and why we have lots of squirrels, those giant silver maples are everywhere. Days like today with high winds gets pretty nerve racking.

The big tree on the left blocks it but on a clear day you can see the Renaissance Center in Detroit 31 miles away.

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We were inspecting our tree today deciding how to handle a ginormous broken branch that may come down on our back deck.

I saw the backside of the squirrel house. Momma didn’t even pull permits to add a back door.

Now I have to redesign the new house with a back door.

I’m sure it’s an escape hatch.

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An escape route. The raccoon can only cover one door at a time.

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It’s also building/fire code. Probably squirrel building/fire code, too.

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She must be using other regulations; per § 62 (1) Nr. 11 b) you don’t need one.

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Help me out, please. What does the double stacked S symbol mean, auf Deutsch und auf Englisch, bitte?

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It is a typographical symbol for “section” when referring to laws.

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I’ve often thought that even the ones who aren’t “flying squirrels” can fly.

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Whiz-kid “Squizzle”

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The kids are playing on our deck and coming up on the steps for water and nuts.

Here are some exciting action shots. The little buggers move really fast and don’t sit still very long.

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