Yes I am sober.
We have a few regularly visiting squirrels, i feed 'em nuts as i quite like to see their happy little squirrely faces jumping around the garden. One squig though always seems to stay around when the xbox is on (you can see it from the patio doors). I've just turned it on to have a sneaky go at minecraft - squig is eyeballing me again. Tempted to pass him a controller and see what he can do. That's perfectly reasonable isn't it?
And on the cat thing. Last time I mowed my lawn, cat (not mine) just kept moving a little bit away rather than buggering off somewhere else. I swear it was tutting at me as well every time the mower got near him. Don't they understand I'll be mowing the whole lawn?? For notoriously lazy animals, he created quite a bit of work for himself there. Its been bothering me.
TIA for any sage advice in these pressing matters.
AIBU?
To let the squirrel in to play the Xbox, and while I'm here - do cats understand lawnmowers?
ThreeInEachLobe · 21/11/2013 08:44
GetOrf, it's a bit sad really, she goes all weird and hides away in strange corners with her squeaky balls, scratching away at the bedding or the carpet (nesting) and slinking around all sneaky.
Even when you try to be kind and stroke her she can't put up with it for long which is the total opposite of what she's usually like when she's all over you like a rash!
Mad bugger, has them at least once a year. 
What shall I put the foxes' supper on tonight? My best dinner plates? 
I have some Christmas paper plates with holly on. they might like those.
The thing is I feel a bit sorry for our visiting Hedgehogs (fat Barry and his Missus) who usually hoover up whatever is left. Denied by the foxes.
Actually I have just remembered. DH said he put a foil tray out the other week and they took that too. 
They are building a spaceship. For sure.
He is Three he is three times the size of Mrs Barry and he is a real gannet. Once Mrs Barry was just snuffling in the (now disappeared) plastic tray and Fat Barry came barrelling down the garden and shoved her out of the way, causing her to fall down the step.
There is a park in Chester where the squirrels are tame. One ran up my trousers.
Oh don't curiosity, don't say they're in collusion. I thought there was a happy wildlife scene in the garden, not a terrorist cell
Oh yes, it could have been an inside job by Fat B. It's the hedgehogs building the spaceship.
I've posted this on her before, but a squirrel watched my DH wanking once
DH opened his eyes to see that it'd climbed in through the window and was just... staring 
Letting one play video games seems positively wholesome by comparison :o
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Thank goodness you didn't put out the best dinner plates Sparkling - I don't know what they are going to do with the paper plate. I can see the foil trays would be useful in the construction of a space ship but am worrying now that we are implicating poor Mrs B, Fat Barry and Scabby Fox in events that are probably being masterminded by the squirrels.
They have obviously been observing the human race very closely (unhealthily so in some cases )
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