Squirrel's!? Frog's!? Snake's.!?....Oh My!!!!!

by Birdee

When we moved into this house, I loved it. One of the reason's was because it was a quiet area and behind the house was a wooded area. I thought, PRIVACY!!! A good thing. Hey, if I wanted to, I could walk around the family room nekkid....If I wanted to. Plus, there were Deer living in the wood's. Another plus, we also had wild Turkey's in there. I had never seen one, so close up. I'm not in the country, but the property behind me is not developed. Plenty of house's around.

There was a huge tree in the backyard, great for shade because I have three large window's facing the backyard and it could get very warm in here. Well, that huge tree turned out to be a pain in the ass. No grass would grow under it, and it did nothing but clutter my yard with ACORNS! I hate Acorns. You couldn't even walk outside barefoot. Then there were the Squirrel's. Not bad at first, just a few of them. They were cute. Well, after a couple of year's, I couldn't take the mess anymore and I wanted some grass to walk on. So we had it cut down. It wasn't in that great of shape anyway. Then we put up a fence. I thought it would help to keep the squirrel's in the wood's and I was thinking about getting A dog. We still had one tree left in the backyard that would provide some shade. And......One dog turned into Three!
All was fine until last summer. I started to notice that the Squirrel's seemed to multiplying, more than usual. I thought ok, they're cute, fun to watch. Yeah, right! It seem's the Wood's were not enough for them. They would climb the damn fence just to get at that One tree left in my yard. WTH! That tree doesn't have acorn's! I figured out they wanted the leaf sprout's. You know, the little whirlybirds. Now this turned into a big problem. Dog's and squirrel's do not mix well. Actually, Pepper started it all! She turned out to be a little hunter, not the quiet little dog I thought she would be. She live's for Barking!!! As you know, I have two Boxer's too.....they are Not barking dog's. But, crazy Boz soon picked up the bad habit. Pepper also taught my sweet Boxer's how to CHASE those damn Squirrel's!

Well, last summer the dog's caught two squirrel's and they died. Boz got scratched on the nose and I freaked out! All I could think of was Rabies! I got the dog's in the house and called my Vet, then I made some call's to see if I could get someone to remove the squirrel. It was caught in the fence. Some place's would not do it and another place wanted like $75.00 to get rid of it. Oh, Hell no!! The dog's were going crazy, wanting to get back outside. I certainly was Not going to remove it. What if it was still alive and went crazy one me?? So, I did the only thing I could think of...I called Mr. Birdee at work and Made him come home and remove it. All summer it was like I had to be on guard duty. I was not going to deal with another dead squirrel. Then winter came, I thought good, I get a break! Wrong!! Those little sucker's seemed to be everywhere. I swear they climb that fence and into that tree just to torment my dog's. Ruby and Pepper would sit under that tree, staring up for hour's, just waiting to pounce on them. The freak'n squirrel's would sit in that tree, flipping their tale's....taunting my dog's! Some would even come half way down the tree and run back up. More torture for the dog's. So, I put a little two foot fence around the tree, thinking at least this will put some distance between them. It help's a little... but instead of just jumping off the fence to retreat into the wood's, these bullies run along the top of the fence. Some slip. Which mean's, of course, the dog's simply must chase them in hope's of catching one! In the last few week's.....these squirrelly squirrel's have taken to jumping on the roof and now the dog's are jumping on the house trying to get to them!
I'm so over it! What are they going to do next?

Oh! It also seem's that there are alot of FROG'S in the wood's. They like to hop all the way into my yard too. It's not bad enough that I have to be on Squirrel watch, I also have to Save the Frog's! You should see the dog's try to 'play with them. It seem's the frog's like to hang out right by the back door's! Just Lovely! Not! I've also found two snake's on the back patio! WTH!!

So, my question's are.....why do these little bullies have to climb my fence to get to my one tree, when they have a whole forest to play and eat in, and why does it seem they have multiplied so much? Why are these creature's not staying in the woods???? Why can't they leave my dog's alone?? Why are they not afraid of my crazy dog's?? I don't want to be on guard duty this summer! It's time to move....the vermin have Won!