Qualifies as the Strangest Thing Buried By a Squirrel
I spent Saturday doing hardcore gardening work including prepping the fire-escape windowboxes for planting. On Sunday afternoon I purchased a few plants for the boxes and decided to get them planted up rather than wait for additional plants. Check out what I found buried by our friendly neighbourhood squirrel:
A sign of the times. Last year peanuts, this year an entire slice of pizza!
I know it was a new addition because not only was it still intact but I had just dug that spot yesterday. There was also evidence of squirrel digging on the other side of the box.
The location of the squirrel pizza.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:33 am
OMG. The pizza had me in hysterics. Thanks for the Monday morning giggle.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I’ll never forget my first encounter with a squirrel and pizza. I was standing under a tree when something - it turned out to be a piece of pizza crust - fell on my head. When I looked up, there was a squirrel sitting on a branch, expertly holding and eating a slice of pepperoni pizza. I’m still disturbed by the thought of squirrels eating pepperoni sausage!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:14 am
When I was a university student I often saw sea gulls and squirrels perched on the open concrete garbage containers eating KFC. Too bizarre.
May 14th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Just a couple of weeks ago I saw two squirrels scamper past my window at work, each with a half a bagel in tow.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
..but that sure is a lovely pizza box!
lol
May 15th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Funny!
We have a few fox squirrels out here. They stay out of the gardens, but sometimes steal the apples that I put out for the mockingbirds.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I startled a squirrel in a small tree outside my front door that was holding a large avocado. The avocado was almost half its size! It dropped the avocado on the ground but waited in the tree until I left. About an hour later I returned and the squirrel and the avocado were gone. I envisioned a tree party full of squirrels, a pitcher of margaritas and some awesome guacamole!
May 21st, 2007 at 11:53 am
My mom actually told me about a squirrel she saw eating a cob of corn. I thought that was pretty funny.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
You can get special chairs for the squirrels to eat corn in - we’ve got one in our back yard although it tends to be frequented by the blue jays more often than not. I’ve uploaded a pic to flickr for you - see http://flickr.com/photos/absoblogginlutely/518599683/
May 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Oh wow. I like squirrels and that’s neat but I don’t think I want to encourage them to stick around. If I give them corn cobs they’ll be coming around to see what other tasty treats I’ve got on tap.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 am
I think this is so cute. My boyfriend says i closely resemble a squirrel, because I have “squirrely tendencies”… yeah…well I guess I’m at battle with my own kind, because I have a squirrel taht is jumping from the roof of my house into my hanging baskets where I have my strawberries growing. He’s very giving though, because he leaves me acorns in their place! I thought it was the birds I was going to have to worry about.
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Irene: I was worried about the squirrels but it turns out that the birds are a problem this year.