# I caught a squirrel today! **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-caught-a-squirrel-today/17113 "2003-04-01T16:34:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-caught-a-squirrel-today/17113/21 "2003-04-02T09:00:36Z")
I saw a special on the brown squirrel of England… it was a study to see how quickly they adapt. Very clever little fellows figured out all of the obstical courses real quickly. raccoons are very similar in that way. Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
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Except we call them grey squirrels. 🙂 There was a beer commercial many years back for Carling Black Label, where a squirrel ran an assault course to get to some food. Apparently this footage was of a real experiment set up to test their intelligence. Didn’t take them long. 🙂 ---
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Yeah, I see squirrels every day here during spring & summer. We have a wood behind and around the back yard + a pond. As a matter of fact, ducks are erm… making babies at this very moment. 😉 The squirrels don’t really come near the house in the daytime. It’s during the evening and around 4 or 5 am that you might see one on the wall or something. During the summer we get a lot of hedgehogs that are looking for food near the house. It’s fun to watch them eat. 🙂 Cute animals… but those too are _always_ full of worms, ticks and other parasitic insects. ---
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We get hedgehogs too. They also eat the peanuts left out for the squirrels. 🙂 My mum has taken to buying proper hedgehog food from the pet shop now, to keep them happy… ---
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Yeah, we used to do this too. Don’t give them milk though, it gives them… erm… liquid poo. 😉 ---
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Water is best. 🙂 Now I think about it, my parents back garden is teaming with wildlife. Not least my dad when he finds the squirrels have dug up his plants to bury their food… 😛 ---
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cool! Once I saw a squirrel chased by a crow or a raven or sth on the street! And I just chased the birdy away and the squirrel jumped on a tree… end of story! ---
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OK, I don’t want to sound like a nature geek here, but was it a magpie? You know, the long-tailed black & white bird with a chattering call. Hm? 😉 'Cause by what I’m seeing in the garden sometimes, squirrels and magpies are not best friends. They actually fight and all, which is a weird scene. ---
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man I have no idea! I think it was just a black crow or something! I was mostly paying attention to the cute lil squirrel running away from the big awful bird than the big hairy awful birdy! 😛 ---
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You’re a hero. 😉 ---
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lol! 😛 Maybe the crow returned after I was gone and caught the lil thing after all! 🙂 [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-caught-a-squirrel-today/17113.md?page=1)