I just officially had the shit scared out of me

[MorningGlow]

I got home from chaperoning MG Jr's kindergarten field trip to the post office and went to open the front door. I saw something in our mailbox (which is an old twig-woven fishing creel), so I went to peer into the top, and a freakin' SQUIRREL leapt out! JAY-ZUS!!!!

Apparently the little fuzzy-face was trying to keep out of the wind. In order to get IN, he chewed up the twigs around the square hole in the top. Thanks a lot, ya varmint. Haven't you ever heard of trees?!
:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

1. See if you can get bait him back in and set up a video camera for when the mailman comes!

I see a YouTube waiting to happen!

[MorningGlow]

2. ROFL I dunno

Our mail carrier is a little "up there" in years. Wouldn't want to see him have a heart attack or anything. Besides, I like him. Now, if I knew for sure that our substitute carrier was working, that'd be a different story. She's dropped mail on the sidewalk/in a snowbank THREE TIMES.

[Javaman]

3. Who was officiating? ;) lol nt

[marzipanni]

4. LOL! I wonder if he'll use your mailbox as shelter again.

Animals in unexpected places...I never thought I was the type to scream when startled by a mouse until I unfurled a deflated air mattress which had been folded and draped over a lawn chair in my cousins' pool house. It was the first warm day of spring, no one else was there, and I had decided to put on the lower half of my bikini and lie in the sun and go for a quick, cold dip.
As I lifted the air mattress it unfolded, spilling Mother Mousie and her nursing babies in their nest onto my chest and they tumbled/skittered down the front of me. :o !!!

[MorningGlow]

5. AIEEEEEE

OMG OMG OMG no way! I would so totally freak out if a bunch of mice used my front as a slip 'n' slide!!! Yikes!

I don't know if that squirrel is going to venture into the mailbox again. I don't know who was more scared--him or me!
:rofl:

[jobycom]

6. I wonder what the poor beast is telling his friends.

"I found the perfect tree, with the perfect little hole, and one of those giant tree beasts ripped the front off to get me!" Poor little thing!

[MorningGlow]

7. I wonder if it's the same rodentary genius who thinks our second-floor sleeping porch is a tree

There's a squirrel in the neighborhood that hides its walnuts on our sleeping porch and chatters and glares at you from the railing if you dare to walk around underneath it. So taking a mailbox as a nest sounds like his speed.

Yeah, I can hear it now, "Dammit! First I found this HUGE FLAT tree, and it was way cool, but then these cats showed up. They couldn't get at me for some reason--there was this clear magic barrier--but all their staring was freaking me out. So then I move to this cozy little premade nest of branches, and BAM some stupid hooman peeks in at me! I can't catch a break!"
:rofl:

[jobycom]

9. He's not hanging out with a raccoon, a turtle, and a skunk, is he?

http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgfp1641+stella-vern-rj-and-hammy-over-the-hedge-poster.jpg

[MorningGlow]

10. Oh man

Not as far as I know, but we have some pretty sketchy-looking outdoor cats around here...

[XemaSab]

8. My friend's mom went down into the basement and opened a drawer

and there was a POSSUM in there with BABIES!

I would have died on the spot. :scared:

[MorningGlow]

11. Oooh those critters are scary looking!

Babies included, sorry to say. I don't think I'd want to see them up close either, especially not IN my house. :scared:

[Mugu]

12. They're not so bad. I just chase them until cornered and then shove a camera in their face.

[MorningGlow]

15. Wow, that's your pic?

Great shot! You're right--that little fella doesn't look half bad! :D

[Mugu]

19. It's my doing.

The creature was so surprised that some old, fat guy crawled under the tree and shoved a camera in it's face, that it just froze.

[marzipanni]

18. Our dog discovered this one

Occasionally, when our dog stays in the back yard longer than normal in the evening, we find her having a staring contest with a possum just out of reach in a tree.

[Parche]

13. Poor Rocky

[MorningGlow]

16. He sure did some flying once I peeked in at him! n/t

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. Pretty much the same thing happened to my mom a couple weeks ago

She has a 10x15' dog run in the backyard for her pet rabbits. She opened up the top of the hutch part to feed them and the world's fattest squirrel leaped out at her face. Apparently, the squirrel had decided to move in with the bunnies. Smart squirrel. It was cold as fuck out, and he found a nice cozy place with hay to sleep in, plenty of pellets, carrots and lettuce to eat.

She said he had a hard time fitting back out through the chainlink to escape, so I guess he was munching down for awhile.

[MorningGlow]

17. Awww!

Bunnies adopt squirrel! (I wonder if they had a choice in the matter.) Sure, that makes sense--lots of food, body heat, companionship...
:rofl:

[trof]

20. Squirrels gotta chew.

Had to have my truck rewired twice when squirrels chewed the insulation off the ignition wires.

They're rodents and their front teeth never stop growing.
So they have to keep grindin' them down.
They've eaten down plumbing vent stacks on roofs in our neighborhood.
And they're now nibbling on the edges of my plastic mailbox.

Might be time to buy a .22.

[GoneOffShore]

21. Squirrel = Rat with bushy tail

I'm not starting. I'm just saying.