Tag: squirrels

With wild animals, anything at all is possible. In this story from Indiana, we see five baby squirrels got their tails knotted together and were almost put down when attempts to untangle their tails which had become knotted seemed hopeless. However, persistence paid off and the babies were reunited with their mother this week in Michigan City, Indiana. She was waiting right at the spot where she last saw her babies when Michigan City Animal Control Officer Joshua Phillips returned the next day to set free her young. “I’m glad I took the call and saved some squirrels lives,” Phillips said. Animal Control Director Alijah Hunter said a patrol officer Monday spotted the baby squirrels on a drainage grate in a street outside Garden Estates apartments on the city’s south side with their tails entwined. Two of the squirrels had fallen through the cracks in the grate and were dangling…

It sometimes happens that the alterations we make to our natural surroundings produce unintended consequences. A resident cuts down and old tree in his yard only to find that a colony of ants that had lived in the tree has now migrated into his kitchen. The tearing down of an old barn drives bats into a neighbor’s house. Ecosystems are delicate, and when we interfere with them we do not know what we may get. A great example of this comes out of California, where a very large community of ground squirrels have take up residence at a Chevron gas station in Bakersfield – I say taken up residence, but perhaps taken over would be more accurate. According to the reports, over thirty ground squirrels have made the gas station their home. They can be seen scurrying around on the gas pumps, scampering across the parking lot and peeping down…