My dead mate david called squirrels squiggles, there is one weetwood one here that is being fattened up by an unknown nut enthusiast. The squiggle is overloaded with peanuts, so much so it has not hibernated, and persists in being a pleasant nuisance!
I had an old broken cooling fan, and rather than dumping it I took it apart, half an hour of enjoyment, into its constituent parts. Bolts and nuts, plastic and wires, then the final solid piece of engineering, the squirrel cage rotor appeared. I always liked to take things apart, but when I was a lad, my dads alarm clock was included.
The squiggle, is being given excess food, but has adapted its behaviour so as to not get fat, buries its extra nuts all over my garden, particularly in flower pots. When it comes back for them, it eats my flower bulbs instead, and this is a cause of great consternation.
The squiggle is a frontist, it has adapted to survive, because obesity in a squiggle makes it heavy, and be a possible gravity victim, and its gathering of excess nuts from the local calorie abusers, who like to watch lively things, gives some hope?
The obvious answer is to put heavy weights on my crocus bulbs, or appeal to people who believe in fat, heavy, obese squiggles to stop their nut offerings?
Driving squirrels into a survival of the fittest situation is cruel, and what will the RSPCA do to pay its solicitossers?
Lets fight Calorie Abuse now and save our fatties from the food! Teach the victims to bury food in the garden like the squiggles do! Reserve seats for them upstairs on the bus?