How a squirrel came to be in a rubbermaid container on my back porch: A step-by-step story in pictures
1. Squirrels return to porch roof for another year of nesting.
squirrel eating a pear it did not pay for
2. Squirrels decide to start eating out of compost bin without asking.
3. Squirrels start hanging out on the porch.
4. Amy decides to make a secondary compost bin on the porch to encourage this behavior.
5. Squirrel is interested in secondary bin.
6. Jackpot! Squirrel in the bin. Idea is born…
7. Meanwhile… birds start building a nest in the toy drawer on the porch. This has nothing at all to do with this story, but I’m pretty certain porch nest + porch squirrels will develop into a fun situation in the near future.
8. Bird looks at me.   
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9. Squirrel vs. Blue Jay in a battle over peanut butter and jelly sandwich I left in the yard to bait the squirrels.
10. SAHS sees how excited Amy is over these developments and builds her a squirrel trap out of a rubbermaid container and a stick with a string attached to it and baits the trap with a banana peel smeared with peanut butter. He then threads the string through the window and gives the other end to Amy, who is supposed to be writing about something other than squirrels.
11. Squirrel sits on rail and eats a snack instead of going in the trap.
12. Squirrel gets greedy, goes in trap, Amy pulls string, SAHS‘s brilliantly engineered device captures squirrel. Squirrel goes berzerk and the rest is You Tube history.
Comment of the week goes to LL: “Dude. I cannot believe you caught a squirrel with an ACME Wiley Coyote set-up. That is the shit!”
Forgetting the squirrel antics…you have a very big and very orange cat! Oh….and you are going to get letters! How dare you mistreat such an innocent animal that way! (they forget you could have made said squirrel into soup…) Be safe and be well….
Dave
The poor squirrel! But very very funny. He is going to have a killer headache after all that headbutting. BTW, ThunderCat is HUGE!
After reading your squirrel story, I had to write and tell you to be careful about putting food out for the birds or squirrels. We had some unexpected visitors when I threw bread and donuts in the yard for the wild life. What we got were, very destructive raccoons. They chewed the lids off the garbage cans, were caught hanging on a hot grill that dad was getting ready to cook on, ran into the house garage and ripped into the garbage can in about the 5 min that the door was up. I found foot prints on my car in the carriage house. We finally got rid of them by putting the garbage cans in the carriage house for a long time. Anyway, just thought I should share our experience.
As you know, a varmint will never quit. But you’ve beaten them at their own game. All hail Amy!
Man, I needed something light hearted. Things are just getting too grim.
Thanks for the grins, young lady!
I want to know who to stop squirrels from eating holes in my rubbermaid storage shed roof when there is nothing edible inside ??
puzzled in FL
Hahaha Amy you crack me up…I need to come over drink beers and catch squirrels with you! This is hilarious! I esp like when he got out of the box and ran towards you! He wanted his revenge!