I think something has happened to the squirrel I fed every morning.

You pay $18 to post this?

If you have a couple of bucks get LaToya Jackson on the case.

OP is a neurotic shut-in, to be played by Sandy Dennis, in *mm.

I don't know how far they travel, I hope it wasn't him, OP. Here are a few squirrel facts:

Oh how sad. So sweet of you too. Hopefully, they roam.

[quote]Do they wander more than a two or three block radius?

Of course they roam more than a two or three block radius. Just because you don't!

Op, calm down. I've been touring with Adele. I'll be back soon. Keep my nutts warm.

Is this your backyard squirrel, OP?

R1, you should be a little kinder to OP. Some of us that come on here use this forum as a way to communicate with others, especially if we are disabled, and don't have a way of getting out and about.

OP, I have a soft spot for you. My grandma Scarlett was a squirrel feeder, and she fed the neighborhood squirrels until the day she died. They will come and go, but sometimes the favorite ones do "disappear."

Aww don't be mean to OP. I think he's very kind.

Dear, dearest OP.

Red squirrels have been systematically oppressed by their gray squirrel counterparts. Your feeding the red has caused anger and envy amongst those squirrels who think they should dominate access to all food in their territory. They had the red shot or run over and are, in fact, blaming your favorite red for what happened.

Yes, R8!

I forgot to say that I posted about this squirrel in a thread here about a year ago.

[quote]Do they wander more than a two or three block radius?

They did a TV things here in London, attaching a thing to a few London foxes to see how far they roamed around the city. MILES & MILES!

You don't say what your neighborhood is like OP--quiet, busy, suburban, lots of trees, parks, etc. If there's plenty of food and safe cover, they usually won't range too far, especially if they have a regular food source. There's really no way of knowing if the dead squirrel was "yours," but the fact that the grays showed up at the same time he went MIA suggests they probably ran him off. R12 is right, in a tongue in cheek way. Reds' territory is shrinking due to the invasive grays. Also, the little guys are sadly not long-lived; due to cars, predators and mite-borne disease, squirrels only live on average about a year in the wild, though they can live much longer as pets. You have my sympathy, OP, I love those bushy-tailed birdseed bandits too. On the bright side, squirrels being squirrels, he probably left a few offspring behind. And don't pay any attention to the haters, they're probably pissy OCD queens who will die alone.

Oh, no, was this the notoriously unfriendly Darryl?

My neighborhood is mostly quiet and suburban. My house is less than half a block away from a river, and there are lots of large yards, trees, parks etc...though there is one busy street about three blocks in the other direction. The grey squirrels have always been around too, R16, so I don't think they ran him off, though I suppose that is a possibility too. And yes, R17, it's Darryl. How on earth did you remember that? I'm impressed.

It just stuck in my head. I found it endearing that you named him Darryl and not some cutesy Pokémon type thing. Also I work with a guy named Darryl who has a scolding, fussy personality--I could totally imagine him as a chittering tufty red squirrel. Anyway, if you've been feeding him that long, it's kind of bonus innings after a year, even in what sounds like a squirrel-friendly environment. Poor little fella. I hope if he didn't just find a more generous sugar daddy (best case scenario) that he left lots of little Darryls--like Charlotte's Web. I condole you, OP. We don't realize how attached we get to our backyard visitors till they're gone.

DEAR GOD NO!

Bitch, he's in Magaluf.

OP, Darryl has a lot of fans here, I have no doubt.

He's fine! He sends his love!

You're such a doll, R19.

I've been hired to sit on Donald Trump's head.

It's August he is probably just gone on vacation, you know before school starts again.

I needed him for one night. I'll bring him back in the morning.

A down-vote for Squirrels is an up-vote for Satan!

There was this one squirrel that "worked" the apartment building I lived in. He would come and dance on the window screen. Then I would put out a few nuts, and he would sit there and shell them and then eat them. This went on for about 6 years and then he was gone. He was quite entertaining, and would also perform when I had company. I have a dog now.

If you're sincere, I feel for you. He can come back. Or not. Be prepared for either. You did good by him.

OP's Red Squirrel is dead to me! DEAD!

I had to find a new home, OP. Ethel Kennedy's been eating all your walnuts.

R29, we had one of those in my apartment building in Seattle years ago. I lived on the bottom floor and my dining room window opened onto a tiny grass patch, and almost every morning a squirrel would appear on the deck of the building next door and mess with the indoor cat there. My mom brought a bag of pecans one day and I tossed a few in the yard when he was back there. In no time at all, he was coming to my window for his breakfast, and he'd tap on the window if it wasn't open. If I was up before he got there, I'd call him, "Buddy!" and he'd come running. He'd hand out at my place for an hour, then disappear. I was out walking one morning and saw him--across the street, getting his midmorning snack at someone ELSE'S apartment, then one afternoon, there he was gorging himself from a birdfeeder. I recognized him by his bounding run--he moved as high vertically as he did horizontally. The little stinker made a daily circuit of the entire neighborhood, making his scheduled rounds and raiding feeders. I moved away that year, so I don't know what happened to him, but my next place, I had a view of an old house with squirrels nesting in the roof, navigating all the utility cables above the busy street like bushy tailed Wallendas. Those squirrels were like my farm report.

He's just not that into you, OP.

Betty Ford ..

I feed the squirrels in my yard also OP. I had planted two trees about 7-8 years ago and they are now tall and full-the squirrels love hanging around the trees. I throw peanuts under the trees for them and birdseed for the birds. My backyard resembles a zoo at feeding time. I only wish the squirrels wouldn't eat so many of the tomatoes in my garden.

I love squirrels too, Except for their lust for tomatoes.

I hope yours turns up, let us know.

Squirrels sometimes develop a taste for flesh, OP. They're known to attack the desert cottontails in my burgh. That conjures up a mental image more suited to rotten.com than the DL. Never mind.

I hope your little pal returns. A few years back, in my old neighborhood in the SF Bay Area, there was an exquisite B/W feral kitten that adopted a gal pal of mine-she'd eat the bits we gave her, and play on the window sills. Delightful little thing. Then one day my friend saw fur all over the deck, and a bunch of coons prowling around. Didn't take much to sort what happened. Damn it.

Good luck, OP I hope your furiend returns.

Thanks everyone for your kind wishes. I'm hoping that Darryl will show up again soon.

Any news on the Darryl front, OP?

Come back, little D.

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Probably a hawk...

Darryl! Noooooooooooooooooo!

I saw Darryl getting ass fucked the other night by a pointy dick tom cat. Who says squirrels don't smile.

The TV movie “The Day After” (1983), about a nuclear strike against the USSR. It might have aired without commercials. It seemed that everyone tuned in.

Oops. Misfire.

I know better than to feed or touch wild animals, but I can see someone looking forward to seeing them. A squirrel would come and sit on my deck and look at me. That lasted several months. Later on, a lizard would sit on my foot, follow me around. They're wildlife, so a predator higher up on the totem pole (or a car) gets them eventually.

The lizard would actually sit on my shoe.

OP, hope your pal comes back. I follow two squirrels on IG. One is in Denmark, and is a red one, the other is owned by a chick in the US. They are hilarious and cute.

[quote]You pay $18 to post this?

Watch your fucking mouth or it'll be 24 bucks for you.

Oh, OP, was that YOUR squirrel? So sorry.