SQUIRREL TROUBLE

The squirrels and our dog Callie are at war.  I almost lost my thumb in a suicide squirrel tie-down, when I got crisscrossed with Callie, a squirrel and an erratic zipleash.  Annoying.

The squirrels seem to be increasingly aggressive.

The dogs in the neighborhood are finding various ways to cope:

Unconfirmed sightings of supposedly extinct proto-Sciuridae have local canines on edge.

However, we have some unexpected allies in our pursuit of homeland security.