Funniest Pet Stories - Squirrel Goes Cammando!

This incident happened about a year ago, but I was reminded of it while watching the squirrels teasing Fluffy the neighborhood tomcat (yes, the big tom is named Fluffy, which is probably why all the other animals torment him).

My wife and I were going to visit her folks who live in a small mobile home park in Titusville Florida. As we entered the lane leading to their trailer, a squirrel ran out in front of our car. I stopped quickly to avoid flattening the little fellow. We sat there and watched him as he ran down the lane a ways. Then he stopped, actually he froze would be a better way of describing his action.

Just off the lane a cat was sitting on the step of another trailer looking out on the lane. The squirrel sees the cat and freezes, but the cat doesn’t appear to see the squirrel. Now here’s the squirrel out in the pen, no trees nearby, and there’s a cat within 20 feet or so. The seconds tick by and the whole scene is motionless. We both remarked to each, “I wonder what’s going to happen?”

Then the most amazing thing happens. The squirrel flattens out his body and begins a slow crawl down the lane like a commando crawling under barbed wire. Drat, and we didn’t have a camera with us! Inch by inch the little fellow crawled on his belly past the trailer with the cat. Once about half way past the trailer the cat turned his head and looked right at the squirrel. He froze again! We didn’t notice if he left any droppings at that point, but you be sure he was terrified.

Gradually the squirrel crawled past the trailer and out of sight of the cat, at which point he took off like a shot and up the nearest tree. No doubt he had a tale to tell (pun intended) to his pals.

Funny thing is, what the squirrel didn’t know was that the cat was tied to the trailer porch and was no threat at any time! That made us wonder what must have been going on in the cat’s mind…”Look at that, squirrel on a stick and I can’t move!”