Crazy squirrel

"We called Animal Control to come get it because that squirrel just looked crazy. I mean it was just walking around with this weird look it its eyes, who knows what it could do." Yeah, not really sure how to comment on that recent statement by an acquaintance. All I could say was that I hadn't spent a lot of time paying attention to the squirrels in my yard, while thinking to myself how the Animal Control officer must have laughed his @ss off to have received that phone call! I particularly had trouble containing my mirth when the follow up was "Our neighbor just walked right out and got in her car with it standing right there staring at her." Huh, she didn't notice that crazy squirrel? Imagine that!

It did make me think of other squirrel behavior. I drive a curvy country road to work and lately I've noticed something rather odd. Coming around the curve, in admittedly, a rather race car driver manner, there's what appears to be a squirrel corpse lying across the road. My options are to swerve into the other lane not knowing what may be coming around the curve in the other direction or experience the crunch of animal bones beneath my tires. Without thinking, I swerve into the other lane but to my surprise, the "corpse" jumps up and runs across the road. The first time this happened I thought I was seeing things but after the 15th time, I'm fairly sure the local squirrel population has invented a new game called "possum", in which they test the reaction times of unsuspecting drivers.

What do you know...she was right, those squirrels are definitely crazy.