When Squirrels Attack! Imagine my surprise when I left for work yesterday to find that one of the squirrels that lives in my backyard had broken into my house. I dutifully put food in the squirrel feeder, yes, an actual squirrel feeder, not a bird feeder that has been taken over by squirrels, every day. I must have forgotten to refill it yesterday, and rather than just take food from the BIRD feeder, which they were doing on a regular basis before I put up the squirrel feeder, they tore apart the screen on my back door and ransacked the bag of squirrel food. Of course they didn't just go into the open bag. That would not have been destructive enough. They tore a gigantic whole in the bottom of the bag, dumping the contents all over the floor. I have been very tolerant of the squirrels, as I grew up in the Bronx, and actuallly think of them as wildlife and not a pest, but this was just too much. I'm sure my neighbors enjoyed my refilling the squirrel feeder screaming "You little bastards! One day I forget to feed you and you break into my %$#@!ing house!" Just in case they didn't already think I was crazy. The ferrets, by the way, don't seem to care at all that the house was invaded by squirrels.



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