Last time I went to the park, I got to watch a squirrel haul a grilled steak up a tree and nibble away at it.
To show that our park is truly a smorgasbord for the local squirrels, this time around I found a hungry little guy way up in a tree gnawing on what had to be a slice of pizza!
No doubt, some humans had a pizza party at one of the picnic shelters and figured nobody was going to find, let alone eat all the leftovers they threw away… but squirrels are expert scavengers and quite obviously enjoy a treat other than tree nuts every once in a while. And what could be tastier than some all American Italian pie?
Whatever. I hope you have some antacid handy, since even my stomach sometimes gets upset by the combination of bread, cheese, tomato sauce and meat.
This week’s Saturday Squirrel enjoying the junk food of kings! That’s amore….
Have a great weekend everyone!
That’s crazy! Your city squirrels are adapting. Here, they won’t even touch the salad/fruit buffet I lay out for our wild visitors.
Between park picnics and all of the fast food joints just down the road, our park squirrels have an appreciation for the (cough, hack) finer foods in life. I got another “squirrel eating something weird” story from the same trip for a future Saturday….
What a diet! They need to watch the fat!
(Patting belly) I have no room to tell them to watch what they eat…
Good lord! That squirrel is going to have cholesterol issues and gout!
With my history, I’d worry more about kidney stones…
He’s certainly tucking in with gusto! Maybe there’s a squirrel-run nut-pizza establishment nearby.
Squirrel pizza delivery would probably be faster than most of the human pizza places around here…
Oh I hope he enjoyed every single bite of that pizza! I bet he didn’t take any of it “home” and devoured the whole thing himself.
Pam
He definitely chowed down on it. I was watching him for about ten minutes and finally just moved on…
It’s astonishing to see squirrels noshing on junk without getting fat!
Squirrels never get fat, just big furred…
I’m sure he’ll run off all the calories!
No doubt, they probably burn several thousand a day!