About a month ago I was sitting on my couch watching tv with my sliding door open when a squirrel causally walked in from my patio and directly to the water dish of my bunny.
At first, I was all "wtf" and then I realized that this little guy literally made a bee-line for the water dish like it wasn't the first time he had done this (our sliding door is often open during the summer). Years ago I rescued a squirrel that was dying of dehydration during a long heat wave and the people at the wildlife rescue told me that squirrels become easily dehydrated in the summer. So, to help this little dude out, I put a bowel of water on the patio him to use...which he did....everyday.
I totally loved seeing him everyday and he seemed more and more comfortable just chilling on my patio so I named him Gandalf. Him and my bunny, Turtle, would sit and stare at each other and seemed to have a "we cool" understanding.
I decided to buy a bag of peanuts for him the other week. I'd leave a few out for him every day and watch him grab them, jump the the tree, and bury them in the front yard. I'd put more peanuts out....and then more peanuts...then I started to shell them and he would sit and eat them on my patio chair. Then he started letting me feed him! Every day, I'd put a little bowl of peanuts out, he'd eat and drink...chill on the patio...sit my big planter and roll around having a dirt bath...clean himself...take a nap, etc. The other day I was feeding him and I got up to answer the phone...I came back and he was digging into the bad of nuts without me.
I see him on the property when I walk to my car and he seems to know its me when I call his name. He will stand up and stare at me, etc. It was pretty damn cute.
So...today, I was making dinner and I looked up through the "pass-through" into our living room to see him napping on my living room chair! I am not sure where we are going to go from here...or whats going to happen in the winter, but its not like I can stop feeding him. He is just so damn cute and I think he knows his name now! Every day its the same thing...peanuts, water, nap
He is my little buddy!
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