Cats and Squirrels and Dogs
What a tricky mix
I’ve been feeding a little squirrel, although he’s probably at least a half dozen different squirrels. There’s two for sure, one is quite aggressive to the birds that try to take the food.
Squirrels are social creatures, and once they know you’re feeding them, they come around every day.
I have a woodlot on both sides of my driveway. We also have a family of semi-wild cats living on one side, and I feed them too.
This all started out by feeding the cats around here. Someone years ago, dropped off cats. Really beautiful cats. It’s large farms and acreages out here. In the long stretch of road I’m on, there’s five houses. One family owns three of them.
I cannot understand how people can just drop off their pets out on a dirt road and leave. Our neighbour got his dog that way. He found an older dog in his yard that he’s sure someone just dropped off. He’s had her for over ten years now.
Some people are simply assholes to their pets. They don’t know that they’re going to survive when they drop them off. They don’t know if there’s a coyote problem where they drop them off. Plus, these cats have a real fear of humans. I try to make their lives a little more comfortable.
