Have they ever tried to go through the glass?  When a deer comes down our street my crew goes completely berserk.  I'm always worried about them taking out a window then either  cutting themselves or escaping to chase after the deer.

Phoebe occasionally gets so frustrated that she will lunge at the glass, but not hard, just enough to make the squirrel hide for a bit.

It's good job she can't fly though.
we were watching three squirrels have a three way punch up in a tree yesterday.

If that dog could climb...

One of the places she gets walked, there are a lot of young saplings that the squirrrels take 'refuge' in.
Phoebe's learnt to stand up and shakre the saplings with her front paws.
The poor things almost fall into her mouth.

Mind you there's an article in the local paper today, they're talking about re-introducing pine martins into derbyshire.
Given that total lack of natural predators and the massive population of grey squirrels, they should thrive and spread fairly quickly.

As we're at the very centre of the national forest, we should be one of the experimental introduction areas.

Now, phoebe had  a young badger a few weeks back.
I wonder how long it would be before she caught a pine martin ?
She is just death on legs to anything she considers 'food'. 

And if it's not a dog or a human - she considers everything else to potentially be food !

lol
weird isn't it.
in the uk grey squirrels have driven red squirrels out of about 90% of the country.

mainly because red squirrels are pine forest specialists and the greys out compete them in the standard uk deciduous forests.

The interesting thing is the pine martins are really good at catching grey squirels, but not so good at catching the reds.

So in areas in scotland where pine martins have been reintroduced, the red squirrels have started to thrive as the grey populations nare eaten.

Yeah mink are a nuisance over here as well.
well meaning morons (animal liberationists) released a lot of mink (sable is a type of mink)  from fur farms in the 60s and 70s before animal fur breeding was banned.

And with few natural predators they thrived.

But again, with the clean up of rivers and the banning of hunting with packs of hounds, Otters are now making their way back to uk rivers. And otters will clear any area of mink in fairly swift order.
Otters don't like competition and are a fairly serious predator and bloody good fighters.

I find it weird that red squirrels are considered a nuisance in the states whereas your native greys are considered one in the uk.

I had no idea there were even Reds in NJ. When i lived in north Jersey.  I caught 2 flying squirrels same day. 20 miles apart. I never knew they were in NJ.  when i was in bootcamp out in Illinois, we had black squirrels running around. Almost made me miss marching a few times and got in trouble.  Lol. They are greys. Just midnight black, its crazy.

I didnt realize that otters would eat mink. Occasionally we have otters here. But mostly beaver. I just saw a roadkill beaver about a month ago. It was almost 60lbs. Side of the road. That thing was huge.

I remember the black squirrels in Ohio when I lived there. They are really gorgeous actually. But I remember them back in my more bigoted days as these days I dont see fur color.

Yea we get told all the time that mountain lions dont live in the South but the lions have apparently not been informed yet.

My wife and I saw a wolverine within the Helsinki capital area. We were laughed at because wolverines don't come this far South... until there were more sightings and tracks found in the forest we saw it...