I have never heard them make this noise

She looks bold in this video but she’s so sweet

This rescue prairie dog (a type of ground squirrel) mimes grabbing a snack and holding it to her mouth and eating when she asks her owner for a snack. Constantine Slobodchikoff at Northern Arizona University did a lot of work on translating how prairie dogs communicate within their communities, and was able to identify different sounds for different colors, shapes, animals, and more - which he showed were being strung together into simple sentences to describe and communicate events. His team did that by wearing different colors, carrying different shapes, etc, while walking through a community. This rescued pet's owners don't speak prairie dog, so she has learned to mime to try to communicate with them. I think Slobodchikoff is retired now, but below are videos describing the research and the language he and his team found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLxAS4URhOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZllWiKKPHk

Such a vibe from this cutie. I interrupted his meal but he let me watch.

My presence made him tense up a bit initially until he relaxed and let his inner goofball take over!

Thankfully she's understanding about me feeding other squirrels. lol

She is now officially unstoppable and will stare at that cup until you give her another 😂

It’s safe to say it’s mostly squirrels now ❤️🐿️

I understand if this post gets taken down, but it's been on my mind.

Late last night I woke up and was looking at this sub (or the other main squirrel sub). Someone had posted the most disgusting post I had ever seen. They mentioned a neighbor feeding squirrels and they were upset and so they were ending the squirrels and came here for suggestions on that.

I'm glad the mods took that down. I couldn't believe someone could do such a thing. I know we believe that we own our homes, but didn't the wildlife live here before that.

I now slightly understand the warning I received on this sub and elsewhere that feeding squirrels by hand could be bad for them as it may inadvertently make them trust the wrong people.

I would like to mount one or two nesting boxes in our backyard. Do you have any suggestions? If you could put the Amazon link in your response, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Almost every evening I sit with my squirrel buds and feed them/ watch over them. Now that it’s getting dark earlier they’re going to bed earlier, but not angy 😂 she stays much longer than everyone else so I have to stay and watch for the foxes

i just got home and heard some screaming, and apparently there is a hurt juvenile squirrel in my yard. (i’m not sure if that is the correct descriptor; he’s small, but he has all of his hair). one of his hind legs has a laceration but i don’t think it’s broken, and he seems lethargic. i currently have him wrapped up in a towel with a warmed up sock filled with rice, and have contacted a local rehabber but have not been responded to. what should my next steps be?

edit: thank you guys so much for your help! i checked our parks and wildlife page and am bringing him to a licensed rehabber right now! 🧡

edit pt 2: squirrel successfully dropped off! thanks again for all of your help.

I am available for squirrel rescue from ground to Grey I am Tammy Gaunt at [tgsquirrel0850@gmail.com](mailto:tgsquirrel0850@gmail.com) contact anytime, plains MT area

This is Donette. She’s the one who comes and asks for food, then acts like she’s going to kill me when I give it to her. I got a great video of how loud she chatters.

They are so cute!!!

Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/squirrels/s/1arLydo6K6

So since last post, momma squirrel had returned and moved the baby squirrels in to the wall. They were there for the rest of the day, but by the next morning it looked like momma squirrel had moved all the babies out! Or so we thought.

Another night goes by and we left the area untouched, because we didn’t want to discourage the mom from getting all her babies out. This morning my partner hears squeeing coming from the bedroom, and find a baby squirrel on the floor. Maybe momma couldn’t get it back off the clothing shelf and in to the hole?

From what I can tell momma hasn’t been back for about a day. We cleared out all the old nest debris, and put the squirrel in a bin with some warm water bottles and fabric, then placed the bin by the hole in hopes that momma comes back and retrieves her baby.

I’ve sent another update to Toronto Wildlife Centre and waiting to hear back on next steps. Hoping to get this little guy to a rehab centre asap because I imagine he’s hungry and tired from being away from momma so long. Usually they respond in about an hour but it’s also Labour Day and last we talked they were working at max capacity because of a recent storm.

The roofers are also supposed to come by tomorrow so access for momma squirrel will likely be closed off.

Going to wait for a bit to hear back from TWC but it’s looking like I might need to figure out a feeding situation before all the stores close.

My squirrel took walnut and ate it like this. I was wondering why and it dawned on me! She is less vulnerable - to both predators and competing squirrels - by eating it like this and blending in. Impressive little miracles of evolution. PS- one of those botfly larvae have left her thankfully. Two more to go.