Yeah, Rita, the one we had as a pet was raised from a tiny infant and had to be fed from an eyedropper, so he grew up accustomed to human company. He was great. He lived with us for three years, but vanished on one of his frequent trips outside. Maybe a predator got him...or a car.

I saw an odd thing once...gang warfare among squirrels. It had to be a territorial fight, but instead of the usual 2 combatants it involved about 8 squirrels fighting in the backyard, rolling and jumping all over the place. Bizarre. What a ruckus.

Here's a puzzle for Raptor. I noticed a brand new hole that had been gnawed or pecked in the side of a cedar tree out back. It was about 3 1/2 feet above the ground, sort of a rectangular area half the size of your palm, dug in about an inch and a half deep in the side of a fresh cedar trunk.   What the heck would do that, and why? That tree is too fresh to have bugs living in the bark or anything like that, and the hole looked too ambitious for a woodpecker, not big enough for a beaver. Would a porcupine do it?