On September 4th, I wrote about my war with the squirrel over the bird feeder.
I now wish to report that the match stands at Squirrel 2, Me 0.
Today, however, I bought a really, really long S Hook at Wild Birds Unlimited and hung the feeder from a high limb on the aspen tree just outside my front window. It’s far from the trunk, a scary climb down the hook, and nothing to hold onto. I’ll report back later!!
(But just to show you I’m not heartless, I did put some seed and a seed bell in the tray feeder for Ms. or Mr. Squirrel. Maybe I’ll buy some peanuts too.)
The other critter story is about my Katie Cat who has developed a fun activity for when she’s bored and no one wants to play.
She pulls books out of my bookshelves onto the floor, then gets on the shelf and pushes out a few more, then walks away from the mess.
It goes like this:
I’m sure I’ll have more Katie Cat stories in the future. She never fails to come up with new entertaining quirks. This morning she’s sitting on the back of a chair, staring at the ceiling and meowing frantically. That usually means there’s a moth, spider, or fly to chase, but this morning we can’t see even a gnat. Crazy kittty!
Of course an author would have a literary kitty 🙂 Sounds like the makings of a cozy mystery
Patricia, love the Katie story. Maybe she just wants you to read to her like Jim Qwilleran does in Lilian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who series. Good luck with the squirrels. My problem is bees and wasps trying to run the hummingbirds from their feeders.
Hi Patricia .. love Katie the cat – and she’s so clever to read so quickly!! Cats always amaze me .. I’m surprised she’s not outside chasing the squirrels – they are really little terrors .. we have them here … and good luck with the S hanger! Cheers Hilary
You make me glad we started hissing at our cats when they were young.
And yes, they do have their ways of demanding attention … Both are yowelers.
I was hoping no one noticed that
Yes, Ken, I’m sure she saw you at the last critique group meeting pulling books out of my bookcase and throwing them on the floor.
Looks like I’ve been a bad influence on Katie.
I hadn’t thought of that, Margot. Maybe if I put more books about cats on the shelves….
Oh, my goodness, Pat! Yes, those critters most definitely have minds of their own! Or perhaps is just that Katie Cat is a bilbiophile, but just prefers different kinds of books to what you have on your shelves. As to the squirrel? I do hope you find a way to keep it away from the bird feeder and birds. Those little guys are pretty slick, though…
Alex, that squirrel is totally focused on food, so it would probably be the kitchen cupboards that got ransacked instead of the bookcases. Right now, I’m wondering if that squirrel’s going to get so fat on bird goodies that it can’t climb a tree anymore. That would be worthy of a video clip (if I can only figure out how to do that).
Could be worse – just think what the squirrel would do to your bookshelves.