At the end of our outing to the Botanical Gardens, we stumbled across a squirrel. He was meandering around, mostly under my car, while I put the girls in the car and the stroller away. Then, I came around to get in the car, and the squirrel came out and followed me a bit. He stared me down and stayed just close enough to freak me out. I would move, the squirrel would follow. I COULDN'T GET IN MY CAR!!! Julia still needed to be buckled and I couldn't get close enough to the car without the little guy following me! So, I took some pictures!!
While this was happening to me, I tried to sneak behind his back (above picture), but couldn't get past him without him turning around and staring me down! He was a pretty cute little guy. Being a wild animal, I found myself continuing to think of two things: 1) What if he has rabies and bites me? - even though I saw none of the symptoms 2) What in the world will scare this little guy away? - I 'stomped' at him, shoo him, anything I could think of that would encourage him to leave.
Needless to say, we "danced" a bit before he walked off to visit another car, I looked behind me to make sure there weren't more. Guess what? There was one coming straight for me!! So, I jumped in the car, buckled Julia in her seat and left as quickly (and "humanely") as possible. To all the animal lovers out there - he and his friend are still alive.
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