Squirrels were very popular pets in the 1800s. These answers are fascinating though.
My dad is a boomer and back when I was in high school he had a pet squirrel. It would sit on his shoulder while he worked. Eat walnuts out of his shirt pocket.
My dog hates squirrels, so I do too.
I disagree with the premise. Not every boomer hates squirrels. Not even every boomer with a bird feeder.
I normally don't care for broad strokes like this either, but his statement was that every boomer with a bird feeder hated them, so it wasn't all boomers. (So I'd say still broad, but a bit better than what you responded as them saying)
That said, squirrels where I was from are much more scarce than they once were. The acorns are still around, but the animals... Slowly disappearing.
The title talks about boomers in general. Only in the subtext is it specified to mean the ones with birdfeeders.
I feel like you don't understand the relationship between a title and the body text.
Maybe because 'bird feeder' implies they are trying to feed birds?
I really hated the possums in my old neighborhood because they would always crawl into the soffit and have babies, destroy things I could not afford to fix, and poop stinky poop in my attic. But in my new slightly bougier neighborhood the possums are so cute and just run around eating bugs. Rats I can't bring myself to hate, and squirrels just seem like cute fluffy rats. So I can't hate them but goddam it I have never harvested even one fully ripe tomato because they destroy them. I do hate that.
My momma is 62 and loves her squirrels as well as her birds
A lot of boomers are really particular about well-manicured yards, pristine gardens, etc. Squirrels do not help with this.
I love seeing little divots where our squirrels bury nuts. If they eat some of our plants, then I put a cage around it or plant new ones. Seeing the little guys play and eat the food we put out for them far outweighs any minor landscaping problems they cause.
A lot of US defaultism going on in this thread. Americans (and perhaps British) talking about the North American grey squirrel as the incarnation of all squirrels, when people elsewhere in the world would have very different experiences with their local native squirrels, who act quite differently to those.
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