Ground squirrel coming in my doggie door at night

[womanofthehills]

I don't want to trap and let her go yet because she has 4 babies so I'm leaving lots of bird seeds etc. outside the doggie door.

Do ground squirrels go up trees? I don't know if it is the same squirrel but I kept thinking I was hearing a loud bird and I got out my binoculars today and it's a squirrel sounding just like a bird - went on for about half an hour.

The babies are cute - I can see them from my upstairs window - they come out of the hole and sit kind of like prairie dogs always facing
west.

There is lots of chicken food also outside for the squirrel so I don't know why he started coming in. I also have a small fish pond so he has all he needs out there. Variety or maybe because he can????

I guess it's called country living - about three yrs ago a raccoon came in my doggie door.

[Tobin S.]

1. Your user name is apt. :)

We are not of the hills, but we have raccoons here, too. They get in our trash can and are what seems like the size of German Shepherds. The squirrels keep their distance, but we have two cats who would like to have them for dinner.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Don't ground squirrels live in the nooks and crannies of rocks?

I'm pretty sure that ground squirrels do not climb trees because then they would be called squirrels instead of ground squirrels. I'm too lazy to look them up.

[womanofthehills]

4. Actually, this ground squirrel lives in a tunnel dug in the dirt

one tunnel is about 15 feet long because her babies are in the end farthest from my house and she has one tunnel that comes up in my chicken enclosure. I just read that they have intricate tunnels some 30 ft long. It seems ground squirrels do climb trees but when they get scarred they run down the tree into a burrow while a tree squirrel will climb higher. I found this photo that is identical to what the babies look like.

[Wolf Frankula]

3. Could Be Worse

Could be Moose!

I was told that when I said some squirrels got into our garage. The cats won't chase them, they have fluffy tails and the cats say you should never chase anything with a fluffy tail.

Wolf

[womanofthehills]

5. We had a bunch of antelope running around here last month - no moose - looking at the good side

My dog and cats see so many bunnies and rodents they are bored with them.

My neighbors pit bull got a face full of porcupine quills last week - for the third time - not too swift. My dog is porcupine savvy. He is also rattlesnake savvy. I'm not - I was bitten two years ago.

[Yonnie3]

6. be thankful it's not a skunk.

Cat door privileges were revoked when I discovered an immature skunk in the kitchen sharing the cat food with the cat. They seemed friendly.

[Coventina]

7. "Um....Meow?"

[MrScorpio]

8. Le rowl-rowl, ma petite amour de pew.