It’s easy to have a love-hate opinion of squirrels. These furry scamps are the clowns of our natural world and aside from entertaining antics, have a lot to offer in our modern urban and suburban ...

Every fall, squirrels stash hundreds of nuts to survive the colder winter months. As someone who routinely “hides” things from myself—car keys, receipts, even my phone while I’m actively talking on it ...

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Spicy Jane is a real nut. The baby squirrel races around her enclosure, jumping on her adoptive squirrel brother Cyrus, who is a wee bit older. If you open her enclosure, she will jump on you. The ...

To keep squirrels out of bird feeders, using bird seed coated in hot pepper oil is an effective solution. When using pepper-treated seed, wear gloves and avoid making your own mixture to prevent ...

Squirrels: Are they just rats with better PR? Be advised that this is not safe reading material for squirrel lovers, or even squirrel apologists. In my opinion, squirrels are worse than rats—smarter, ...

Some members of the St. Clair Shores Michigan Residents Group have posted about seeing a white squirrel this October. White squirrels are not endangered or threatened, but can be rare, according to ...

For nearly two years, Chicagoans and tourists have treated a small imprint in a Roscoe Village sidewalk like a sacred site. The so-called “Chicago Rat Hole,” which has existed for 20-30 years before ...

CHICAGO — A new study suggests that the city’s iconic “Chicago Rat Hole” is likely the imprint of a completely different rodent. In an article published by The Royal Society, a research team compared ...

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark. To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of ...

Have you noticed squirrels going a bit crazy this fall? I mean more than usual? I’ve been hearing a lof of people talking about the long, cold winter in store for us and they say they can tell because ...

Mad Horse Theatre will present the Maine premiere of The Squirrels by Robert Askins, directed by company member Jake Cote, running October 30 through November 23 at the Mad Horse Theatre. Described as ...