I feel a complete and total IDIOT. Thought he was special.

[MrsA2015]

For nearly a year now I thought I had a regular squirrel in the garden, I’ve “saved” him from cats, left out bowls of nuts for him and even let him have crusts off of DDs toast.

His name is sooty becuse he’s got the cutest little black nose which I thought made him unique.

Only he doesn’t have a black nose, nor is he my regular squirrel. I’ve just sat and watched a “normal” squirrel dig around burying a nut only to sit up and have a BLACK NOSE. BLACK NOSE BECAUSE OF MUD.

Sooty is basically every sodding squirrel that’s come into the garden and had a dig about burying poxy nuts and getting a muddy nose.

Fuming.

Are you sure Stripy isn't an escaped chipmunk criminal mastermind maelstrop ? Hiding in plain sight by blending in with the locals...

If you really have them in the roof you need to get that sorted asap, they can do untold damage.

I should’ve explained upthread! They’re in my “ceiling” we live on the ground floor of a Victorian end terrace, rented so landlord will have to sort out the nest. I’ve informed them already because I thought we had rats when we first moved in!