More on Squirrel "Obesity"!

Our neighbor Rob, our resident plant expert, was showing us a new addition to his garden...

... a bush that would provide berries for squirrels and birds.

That reminds me, Rob, I said. I noticed a really obese squirrel in our neighborhood the other day... Have you ever seen it? It looked more like a puppy than a squirrel.

Not obese - pregnant, he replied. When they are preparing to give birth, they pull the hair out of their tails to line the nest. Did the tail look thin...?

It did! That's why I wondered if it was even a squirrel!

(Such a simple explanation! Why - in all my years of observing squirrels - did I never know... or notice these things?!)