Today Is Also Say Something Nice About Squirrels Day

[plumtreeblossom]

There's a beautiful all-black squirrel living on or near our property. It's one of the young crop of squirrels from this year. Black squirrels are common in other parts of the continent, but this one is really distinctive from the usual gray-brown squirrels we have here. I wonder how it got here, or if it has a genetic quirk. It's quite lovely, in any case. I've seen other squirrels chasing it and trying to make The Sexeh Business, so I think she's female.

If so, then I hope she finds a buck squirrel whom she feels good enough about to consent to mutually satisfying congress, so she can perhaps make more pretty black squirrels. I think I like squirrels better when they don't all look exactly the same.

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If I can't say something nice...

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...I won't say anything at all -- You know my feelings about squirrels :)

I will relay the bad news that the gene for black fur is recessive, so unless she finds another black squirrel mate, the babies will be brown :(