During last Wednesday morning's outside coffee time, with picture-perfect summer weather (not as hot, not as humid, and nicely breezy), Sumner found himself carefully watching and then quietly stalking a pair of frolicking squirrels. At first, they were chasing one another up and down the neighbor's cherry tree, but then they came over to one of the maples along the south property line. We looked up at a highly unusual sight: one squirrel was barely hanging onto a low limb while the other squirrel was furiously copulating while holding only onto the subject of his desire. It was not surprising when they fell and Sumner was on them as soon as they bounced. One of the two lovers was suddenly not quite so fortunate.
The rascal put up a pretty good fight but Sumner was not going to be deterred.
His instincts are sharp and he clearly knows the way to vanquish these yard rodents is to grab and furiously shake his head. It took a few tries to get the right grip and shake and finally the little bugger lay still.
This was the tenth squirrel kill by our excellent yard hunter and we were pretty excited for him.
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