"squirrels are like cats"

[asakiyume]

I was at an event last week, a breakfast event, and I was sitting at a table with people I didn't know, but we were all making conversation, and somehow the talk turned to animal visitors, and one woman started talking about how a squirrel had been paying them visits over the summer:

I left the window open, and there's no screen, but I didn't worry about anything getting in because we're on the second floor. But I had a bowl of nuts on the kitchen table, and it kept on going down. I kept on refilling it--I thought my husband was eating the nuts. But it was a squirrel. A squirrel was coming in and eating the nuts! But you know, squirrels are like cats. If they like you, they'll leave you something, as a present. Better than a cat's present! Well I guess the squirrel liked us, because one day I came into the kitchen and there was a doughnut on the table.

"Is this your doughnut?" I asked my husband.

"No, it's not mine. I thought it was your doughnut."

"If it was my doughnut, do you think it would be sitting here, uneaten?"

It was the squirrel. It had had so many of our nuts, it decided to leave us a doughnut.

Now maybe the squirrel just happened to be carrying a doughnut it had pilfered from somewhere else, and it set it down to much on some more of this woman's nuts and then scampered off in a panic, forgetting its doughnut. But I really like the woman's interpretation of the events.

Comments

[queenoftheskies]

That's a great story. I really want to believe!

[sovay]

But you know, squirrels are like cats. If they like you, they'll leave you something, as a present. Better than a cat's present!

I like that!

[minoanmiss]

*beams at her and at you*

[rimturse]

LOL. That's a great story!

[amaebi]

I like that whole story-- thank you!

But before I actually read your entry my eyes glanced down to see that a doughnut had appeared, and I thought of a sullen haunted doughnut stalking people.

[cmcmck]

Awwww! :o)

[e_d_young]

I've never heard that before about squirrels. How cute if it's true!

[pjthompson]

Crows have been known to leave "treasures" for people they like, too. The ungrateful bastards I feed have never left anything for me, but I keep on the lookout. :-D

[osprey_archer]

I've heard of crows doing this, but - squirrels! That's great. And a doughnut is a big burden for a squirrel, too.

[zyzyly]

Haha that is such a wonderful story!

[umadoshi]

It was the squirrel. It had had so many of our nuts, it decided to leave us a doughnut.

This is clearly the best and only possible explanation.

[gale_storm]

Oh, what a great story! That brings to mind my squirrel fishing at university. I'd taken a long piece of twine and tied a peanut at one end, then lowered it down from the fifth or sixth floor, waited for the squirrel to grab it, and then hoisted it up. Don't remember when it let go, though.

[tolcath]

That is really amusing. I never heard of squirrels doing anything like that. :)