June 29, 2010

  • ~Theo~

    For the past several days, we've had a small squirrel visit our back yard.  That is amazing in itself, as we have 3 dogs running around the yard most of the time.  Brave little squirrel....though, I will say, that it hasn't visited while the dogs were outside.  He's usually browsing around in the morning......looking under the walnut tree, for a treat.......Jake started feeding him some sunflower seeds that we had......we were amazed at how close the little guy would creep up to Jake......the next day, he came back, so we fed him so bread......and the next day he came back for more bread....he's been back each day.....Today, Rosie was the one up when he came visiting.....so she took a piece of bread and went and sat on the steps.....the little critter actually walked right up to here and took a piece of the bread from her fingers.......She was sooooo excited!!  I was busy looking for batteries for my camera (never did find 'em) and missed it.....She said he came right up to her, took the bread and then scurried away.......While I am excited for her, I am a bit nervous too, as I really don't want anyone getting bit......I really think he's quite a young squirrel....he's not too big and just doesn't seem to have much fear of us.......Jake nicknamed him Theo...