Sunday, June 14, 2009

Petey Must Die

The last time H was home she saw the ground squirrel cleaning up seed under the bird feeders. "Aw," she said, "I'm naming him Petey".

A few days later Crab and a neighbor were enjoying the time honored practice of sitting on the front stoop, drinking beer and trying to shoot ground squirrels. There was at least one rodent fatality that day. I secretly hoped it wasn't Petey.

Cute little Petey appeared the next day to stuff his face under the feeder and has been showing up daily. We co-exist. I don't bother him and he hasn't bothered me until this morning.....




Eating flowers!

2 comments:

Gwen said...

Oh, naughty little ground squirrel!

Hannita said...

We don't have ground squirrels here in Chicago. Petey is cute, even if he is marked for death.