Some years back, a little family of squirrels got in to our attic and made it their playground. After the outer hole was patched, I began humanely trapping and releasing them with good ol’ peanut butter as the bait. I then had the idea to add some white spray paint to their backs, to make sure they weren’t still getting back in. Actually I only tagged one squirrel that way, as it just… well, something felt off about the process, and I only needed one test subject, I thought.
A couple weeks later I saw a squirrel running around with a lot of its back-fur missing, and realised that I’d F’d up. Fortunately (I think, I hope) that given it was summer, the little one would have plenty of time to ‘fur-up’ before winter.
Please don’t catch and attach random shit to wild animals.
it wouldn’t be random! think of it as friendship bracelets!
Nice try, RFK jr.
Squirrels are giving bracelets to birds?
I read it this way, too. 🤣
