For any of you who saw the slightly disgustified pumpkins on our porch this fall and wondered what happened, all your questions are about to be put to rest. For those of you who didn't see them...
We never actually got around to carving our pumpkins this year ... so the squirrels started eating them from the rind, in .
It was a momentous occasion on the day the squirrel broke through the rind and gutted the first pumpkin. We were so amused that we left the pumpkins in the yard, and they made short work of all three.
Humorous? Definitely. Gross? A little, yeah, I'll admit. But why? I didn't figure it out until this week.
According to CNN, the second-best source of all truth and knowledge (the first being Wikipedia), there was a huge acorn shortage this year. And this wasn't just in Virginia, but all up and down the eastern seaboard. The squirrels' version of the Irish potato famine. Scientists are predicting record squirrel deaths all over the east coast if they can't adjust fast enough to find other sources of food before winter. The wildlife expert's solution: leave corn, peanuts and sunflower seeds on the back lawn. Our solution: don't put away your Halloween decorations too early!
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Oh my gosh! My roommates and I were laughing about the same thing. I thought it was a bit strange because I had never seen anything like it before - it all makes so much more sense now.
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