squirrels, possums, a dog, a cat, and a monkey

from: ppx 70.114.7.166 06-01-29 14:01:46

chattering squirrels in the trees behind my house there are at least 4 they run up and down tree trunks and checkout stuff to nibble on the ground the whole time they're chattering away, like IRC, only faster, but constant, when I walk by they run up into the branches, but chatter down at me making clicking noises like they're saying "you can't catch me, ha ha ha" they do it to my cat, too I try to make friends, but I guess I have nothing to offer about 30 years ago there was a skinny monkey in the neighborhood named Sweetie, he wasn't sweet at all, but I was able to coax him up to my door with Lorna Dune cookies he'd come up, grab the spring on the screendoor, pulling and pushing it while screeching thru the screen at me I'd go to the door and crack it open, offering a cookie Sweetie would take it and hold it under his arm like it was a phone book and he'd take off like a rocket and come back later my dashound Willy was always trying to catch Sweetie one time he did, or rather Sweetie caught Willy, by each ear, pulling and screeching you never saw a doxie back up so fast in your life a black and tan sausage moving full speed backwards trying to escape an utterly fearless and totally obnoxious monkey yanking on his ears and screaming like a banshee in his face this was around 1975-6 now its squirrels and possums