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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Very startled and unsettled dog - "And the last thing she said, before she ran back up the tree, was: 'I will take your nuts.'"

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Frem:
Even funnier is they have some sorta deal going on with the raccoons, where the Squirrels act as lookouts and sentries, and will alert the foraging Raccoons to threats, in exchange for what I've no idea, they don't eat the same things, and the Raccoons around here are complete wimps, they lost the turf fight over the park to the damn Bunnies, I got a hell of a laugh out of watching a large Raccoon being chased outta there by an herbivore half his size, heh.

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Yes, it's curious, they do that here too. The other ones to do it are birds, particularly catbirds and chickadee. I just read recently that the chickadee distress call is the most universally understood in the animal kingdom, and thousands of species will take note when they hear it.

I gather the first impact is a good neighhbor policy. "squirrels are awesome" everyone says. And then you watch 'em plant trees and say "and hard working," so who knows how that works. But probably when it comes to feeding time you think "i'm not going to begrudge a squirrel, as long as there's enough to go around."

It's also curious how bullies get treated in the animal world. I'm sure anyone who has seen the big bird small bird fight (pity the big bird, seriously) but have y'all see the small bird whose fight it isn't of a different species spoontaneously join in on the side of the small bird? I've seen a fair amount of that around here... Once I saw four different species of small bird against the big bird.

Kinda reminds me of something