re: #232 CuriousLurker

Yeah, squirrels’ cuteness is deceiving. They can be thieving, ill-tempered little twits and on several occasions I’ve seen them tease cats, both on the ground and (with my indoor cats) by climbing up the side of the building just out of reach of the window and flicking their tail & chattering at them, which I assume was the squirrel equivalent of “neener-neener you can’t catch meeee!”

The squirrels at my brother’s place do that to the shed cats. The cats get the last laugh and a meal since sitting 10’ up the tree on a horizontal branch in order to scold a cat is unfortunately a very good target angle for a pellet rifle shot.

The cats now turn up every time you fire the pellet rifle since it potentially indicates a rodent meal being delivered up.