Our seven-year-old Border Collie Twiggy has been having an ongoing battle with a squirrel that lives in a tree just off the back deck. We leave a few crackers out for the squirrel and Twiggy feels it’s her responsibility to make sure the squirrel doesn’t take them. Lately, the squirrel has brought in reinforcements.

Twiggy lies patiently watching the squirrel and then pounces, chasing it off the deck. Lately though, the squirrel brought another one with her to distract Twiggy so she can get to the food. Twiggy is fine with one, but as soon as the second one shows up Twiggy just short-circuits and goes crazy.

While one eats, the other one runs on the deck railing and in the trees, chattering the entire time keeping Twiggy attention. Then they switch out and the other one eats. Sometimes Twiggy gets so tried she just plops down and pants.

Today three squirrels came and I thought Twiggy’s heart was going to pop. She was running from one end of the deck to the other trying to catch one of them. She never gives up totally, but they really made her work tonight.

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