Dear Kitty

[james_davis_nicoll]

Dear kitty, I did not pet you because you are not in fact a cat but
[ ] a bear or bear cub
[ ] a skunk
[ ] a racoon
[ ] a weasel-thing
[ ] an angry seagull
[ ] a surprisingly large house centipede
[ ] a tiny spider I am afraid of squishing
[ ] a large rat
[ ] a rotund raccoon I would bet a lot of money could not scale a security fence that quickly. Or at all.
[x] a pushy squirrel

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

When I went to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, there was an empty lot nearby, fenced off, with many ground squirrels. I had some trail mix with me and threw some over the fence. I also got one to climb the fence, by holding a bit above it until it got near the top.

Then I accidentally dropped my bag. Four of them seemed to teleport through a hole in the fence onto the sidewalk, or my backpack. One of them started climbing up my leg.

I figure with a peanut I could have picked one up and fed it, but I have a policy about not touching wild rodents.