Well, I just got jumped by a squirrel in my own bathroom

[conuly]

This is the same little squirrel that's been trying to break into my bedroom for the better part of the past ten days. Once it actually got into the house it was immediately chased by a cat and had cause to regret all its life choices.

We removed the cat and opened the front door very wide and absented ourselves from the area, so we think it's gone now.



I think it's a baby. Not just because it's so small, but because the other window squirrels will shamelessly stand up or bang on the glass if they think they can catch my eye, but when this one realized I was there it hunkered down very small and actually turned its face away a little.

I hope it's all right now that it's outside where it belongs.

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Comments

[calimac]

If a squirrel got in our house, I think our cats would hide.

My favorite example of something, named after a surname, which confuses people is Child Ballads. They have nothing to do with children! They were collected by a man named Child.

Admiration for your reddit post. Agreement that sexuality is defined by who you're attracted to, not who you're actually having sex with. If it were the latter, then incels would be asexual; if only they were.

[conuly]

They could probably be ace and still tragically toxic in some way.

[minoanmiss]

Like snow, it is pleasant to behold whilst outside and rather alarming inside.

[conuly]

And like snow, I just want to pick it up in a little ball even though I'd be bound to regret it pretty soon thereafter.

[minoanmiss]

Bwee, yes.

[zesty_pinto]

Eeeeee! Lovely little rapscallion squirrely!

[conuly]

It's just so adorable!

[dewline]

Okay, that's...unusual.

Speaking as someone who recently witnessed the wrath of an adult squirrel vented upon a patio screen door.

[conuly]

I can't blame the squirrel. It ran into the bathroom to hide from the cat, then climbed up high on something to get away even better, only to find that both the cat and then a human were standing at the door!

[used_songs]

I think the squirrels here must dare each other to hang out in the yard until the last possible moment when Ella goes running toward them.

[conuly]

That... sounds like squirrels!

[chomiji]

Thank you for the Down Syndrome article.

[conuly]

:)

[archersangel]

i don't know what i expected from the ‘Reborn mothers’ gather in Sao Paulo story, but it wasn't people into realistic baby dolls.

[conuly]

Yeah, and the original title didn't even include the word "dolls".

[sabotabby]

I think it's a baby because that's a terrible life decision.

[conuly]

Live and learn!

[gwydion]

The proportion suggest a juvenile.

[conuly]

It sure is cute sized.

[loligo]

A squirrel got into our house through a disused vent pipe a few years ago. Chasing it out was quite dramatic!

[conuly]

I bet!