Squirrels, they're not just for breakfast anymore.

feels EXACTLY the same.

the squirrels in Oakland are a bold lot who cling to the trees with one tiny hand while making rude gestures with the other.

Squirrels in Louisville won't even put in that amount of effort, they just keep laying on that branch, and may roll over a little to crap on you. Except when my chile pepper seedlings are just tall enough to bite off at ground level. Bastards. It's not like they're eating the seedlings, they just bite 'em off. Squirrel jerks.

My dog Kovu gave up on squirrels a long time ago, when he realized he was never gonna catch one. Rabbits, now, that's worth the chase, they never run up trees.

Now ruby love to chase them and yet to catch one either. But just like the cat chasing the bird, what will she do with it if she does catch it? Play with a wounded toy, or will dinner be served? An unnamed organization here in Sacramento released white doves with red ribbons about 15 years ago. I can home from work and found white feathers all over the back yard. After I saw this article on the news I went back outside and yes I found the red ribbon and my fat happy cat. And two years later he brought a wounded bird into the house as a toy.

I was walking down the frozen sidewalks
this morning, when I came upon some
burgled garbage cans. Sitting up on his
hind legs, amidst three large pizza crusts,
and an opened container of dipping sauce,
the frikkin squirrel was dipping the pizza
crusts into the sauce. As I walked by,
he wiped his upper lip with a dirty napkin,
and offered me a Friday night Hampton
ticket, at face. When I asked him if it
was a counterfeit, he flipped his squirrelly
dreads at me, and was gone, leaving a
little pile of pizza crust, and an empty
dippin sauce container, and the faint
odor of patchouli.