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  • Jac19Jac19 Posts: 496
    edited September 2021
    Give me a red squirrel pair and I will bring them up in my garden.

    My baby squirrel pair do not know they are red or grey.  They just got born in this world and have been hungry until I came along.  Now they are so happy after I feed them, they run around play fighting, do summersaults, and a swim in the grass thing, and play with sticks.  Awww...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited September 2021
    Jac19 said:
    Give me a red squirrel pair and I will bring them up in my garden.
    until they catch squirrel pox from your grey ones. 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrelpox_virus
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Jac19 said:
    Give me a red squirrel pair and I will bring them up in my garden.
    Ehh - I don't think so!  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That won’t work because the grey ones will infect them with pox. 😠 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    That won’t work because the grey ones will infect them with pox. 😠 
    SNAP
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Every day I find a social media post, some where that makes me laugh, I always look for ‘my laugh of the day’ it’s usually Arse Book. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If they don't have the habitat they need, they wouldn't survive anyway.
    I don't really think the seaside is very similar to the Perthshire woodland..... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:
    If they don't have the habitat they need, they wouldn't survive anyway.
    I don't really think the seaside is very similar to the Perthshire woodland..... :D
    I'm sure we could knit them little hats to shade their little heads from the sun?
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Knotted hankies maybe.  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • CostumedVoleCostumedVole Posts: 257
    I'd just like to say that this thread has provided me with some of the best amusement I have had for some time.
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