SQUIRREL!

I FOCUS A LOT ON SQUIRRELS

I name my squirrels.

First there was Mother Chucker, who threw things at my guests. A lot. She had three children, pictured in the above video: Fling 1 and Fling 2 (and Tucker, the ref). They had children named Chunk and Kindly. One of Chunk's children had a terrible accident traversing the electrical wire. Happy was given a proper burial, and I sang at his memorial service.

Then their child had one baby, a girl. I never named her and sadly she was as unlucky as her uncle Zappy.

[warning: emotional content] A hawk tried and failed to get her. But even after the neighborhood rallied and tried to save her, she was too far gone. She passed in my arms under "Transition Tree." Her baby was looking on, and took this quite hard. It took me some time to convince the baby it would be okay. She is my current only squirrel, and I call her Baby. Sometimes we cry together because we miss our moms. But we are there for each other, and that's what matters.

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Let me just end by saying that squirrels are truly the top mammals of all time--and that includes dolphins.