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  Welcome to the Dreamies' 2nd Annual Squirrel Day celebration! I'm Charlie, one of your hosts. ;D
  
  This year we will be celebrating on January 21st and 22nd, and we invite you all to Squirrelify your profiles and join our party thread! You're also invited to share your favourite squirrel moments here. Have you or someone you know had a fun squirrel experience, or even seen some squirrelly fun on YouTube you want to share?!
  
  Originally begun as a holiday by Christy Hargrove, a wildlife rehabilitator, on January 21st, 2001, Squirrel Appreciation Day is meant to raise awareness for these cute, fluffy creatures! What better way to celebrate the Dreamie mascot than by dressing up your sigs and avvies, participating in the fun party thread, and trying to Steal the Shiny Acorn?!
  
  Join us in our celebration of those figures of the forest, symbols of the suburbs, and citizens of the cities!
   
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  Welcome all!! I am another one of your hosts, Fitzwalrus.
  
  I would like to mention one of my favorite squirrel qualities... [act]The music O'Fortuna by Carl Orff plays [/act]...The Stare... [act]end dramatic introduction music[/act]
  
  Oh how those fluffy, acorn-eaters do it, I'll never know. If you're not aware it is impossible to lose a staring contest to a squirrel. The next time you're in squirrel-country, give it a try. Sit on a park bench, find your silken subject, and begin staring. Don't worry, it will notice and meet your stare unblinking. After what seems like eons, but is actually only 10-20 seconds, your eyes begin to water. Your left eye twitches. Your nose gets itchy, but you can't scratch it because that might make you blink! All this while, the squirrel has dominated in the unblinking category. 20 seconds later and you can't take it anymore. You blink, bowing your head in acknowledgement of the true, supreme winner, the squirrel.
  
  
  
  
  Also, they're just so cute and cuddly! :nod: I helped raise some orphan baby squirrels when I was about 8. Cute baby squirrel! (--> although this is not one I raised. )
   
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  I don't have any squirrel experiences, but I have been bitten by a possum! :D
  
  Everyone: o_O
  
  Ahem... Acorn anyone? :P
   
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  [act]nibbles on Kaede's Acorn[/act]
  
  I once had a beanie with Chip and Dale on it, cute little squirrels ...Or maybe they were chipmunks, I don't know anymore. :-?
  
  
   
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  I think Chip and Dale are Chipmunks.
  
  I realized the video of "The Stare" I posted earlier (here) was actually a chipmunk labeled as a squirrel |facepalm|
  
  Obviously squirrel identification can be difficult, which brings me to another squirrel memory. My first year of uni, I was in a class with a guest lecturer from the Wildlife Department. I wasn't particularly paying attention, but I remember him specifically saying that there were at least 15 different species of squirrel that lived in the area surrounding our uni. I searched high and low, but I could only ever identify about 3 different species.
  
  Then a year later, I had to go with a professor to do research on a farm about 20 minutes away from the uni campus. Once on the giant farm, half of which was forest, I spotted tons and tons of these creatures that had fluffy tails and ranged in color from raven's wing black to a dark, dark ashy gray.
  
  I was confused, so I said, "We have minks here? Wild minks? I thought they live...elsewhere." My professor looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "Those are squirrels."
  
  And they were the most beautiful squirrels I have ever seen 8-| (L)
   
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  ...I have never even seen a squirrel before. But they have nice tails. *smiles stupidly* :)
   
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  I once had a conversation with one of my friend's brothers, and throughout the entire thing, he was adamant that there were squirrels at my uni. I concluded he was insane. Or he once saw a rabbit sitting next to a possum and using the type of confuddled double vision that is a particular characteristic of uni students, melded them in his mind's eye and for some reason decided that the result was a squirrel o_O
  
  I read in a book about species that have been introduced to Australia that squirrels were once introduced in and around Melbourne, but they didn't make it. Good for Australian wildlife, but sad for the squirrels :(
   
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  I once had a conversation with one of my friend's brothers, and throughout the entire thing, he was adamant that there were squirrels at my uni. I concluded he was insane. Or he once saw a rabbit sitting next to a possum and using the type of confuddled double vision that is a particular characteristic of uni students, melded them in his mind's eye and for some reason decided that the result was a squirrel o_O
  
  I read in a book about species that have been introduced to Australia that squirrels were once introduced in and around Melbourne, but they didn't make it. Good for Australian wildlife, but sad for the squirrels :(
  

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  Haha, I love the idea of a possum-rabbit hybrid being a squirrel. (Or maybe it was just a possum on its own and the confuddled double vision effect?)
  
  And is it sad that the story about squirrels having been introduced to Australia made me think of the feinna in the Legendsong? |:| But seriously...
  
  
  My own squirrel story is from when I went to Vancouver to visit my Canadian relatives. My brother and I were really excited at the thought of going to central park (yes, they have a central park!) to see the squirrels, and my aunt looked absolutely mystified, almost shocked. Apparently she'd forgotten that Australia has no squirrels. :P Either way, we found some nuts and went and fed the squirrels and it was awesome, except for the time my aunt accidentally used the flash on the camera and scared a teeny tiny little squirrel that then dropped its almond and bolted. (The squirrels there are kind of shy, but much more confident when food is involved. ;))
   
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  My squirrel story:
  
  My dad has this great birdfeeder. It sits on the top of a tall metal post --- about the height of an average tree --- in his backyard. When my sister an I were kids, there was this one squirrel who lived in the woodpile under my dad's deck. He would scamper up the tree closest to the birdfeederpost, and LEAP across to the birdfeeder. It was pretty cool. Then he'd eat all the birdseed :) We called him Ickery. (Ick-er-ee) :nod:
   
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  My only squirrel story is that my sister tagged me in a photo of a squirrel on facebook. No idea why?????
   
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  I am pretty sure I saw a squirrel sitting in a tree outside a window- 2 stories off the ground. At first I just saw a branch moving and something brown moving out of the corner of my eye. The second time I looked more carefully and watched a squirrel chattering. It was skinny, small and frolicking among flowers.
   
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  I moved to England ten months ago from Aus and one of my favourite things is.....the squirrels of course!
  I love how they are so light and hop everywhere- but here is my question...has anyone ever seen a baby squirrel? Do they live in nests? I assume they are not marsupials (being on the wrong continent and all)...
  Anway, my squirrel story is that I went to Kensington Gardens and got to hand feed some squirrels but then a nasty park ranger man came up to me and told me not to, and pointed out all the signs saying don't feed the squirrels :(
  So I tried having a friendly chat with them instead, but the fickle things didn't love me when they reaslised I had no more food...
  
  EDIT: In a fabulous piece of serendipity on my lunch time run in the park today I saw 14 squirrels! And two of them bounded onto the footpath right in front of me and stood there staring up at me. i had to stop completely and ask then nicely to move!
   
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  That's a lot of squirrels, Larana!! And yes, squirrels live in nests. I'm pretty sure they're altricial when they're born, which means they're born pink, naked, and with closed-eyes like mice.
  
  I only saw one squirrel today, but I wished him a Happy Squirrel Day ;D
   
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  [act]scuttles in, shoving a familiar helmet on her head[/act]
  i've never seen a squirrel, but i have a cousin who's nickname is 'Squirrel'.
  
  i have a squirrely confession to make...
  it was really a squirrel that destroyed my Death Star :nod:
   
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  We have Squirrels at our house all the time :P they like the roof :P
  
  But I have had someone at basketball yell out at a squirrel that it was a raccoon :P Lol you know, because we have them in Aussie and all :P
   
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  Thanks everyone for joining us in celebrating Squirrel Day! It was fun to hear all your squirrel stories, and to see the nifty characters that many of you came up with! :D
  
  (I am now closing these threads to make way for the Wandies event! ;D)