A Message From A Furry Creature....

Hey you! Yeah You! Listen up!  Now is the time of year where you start to invade my turf and start throwing potato chips and cookies at me to try to get me to come closer. You take my picture and then show it off to all of your friends telling them how cute I am. "What is it your friend will ask?" "It's the cute little chipmunk in our campground." you will reply.

LISTEN UP HUMAN!!!!

 

To you all small furry critters look the same I guess.  I am NOT a chipmunk I am a ground squirrel!!

Look at me does this face scream chipmunk to you.......NO!

The face is one of the easiest ways to tell me apart from those stupid chipmunks. Look at my eyes ya see any stripes going across them?  NO! you don't and why is that you might wonder. Because only chipmunks have stripes which go across their eyes. 

STUPID CHIPMUNK! SEE THE STRIPES ACROSS IT'S EYES!

Also a chipmunk is small only about 3-5 inches in size and weigh 1-5 ounces. I am a ground squirrel and way bigger! Me: 9-11 inches in size and 4-13 ounces in weight. I crush you, stinking chipmunk!
Also when chipmunks run they tend to put their tail straight up in the air. Ground squirrels we put ours straight out horizontal with the ground.

Also while you think it is cute to give us human food, DON'T it just makes us fat and lazy.  I get use to eating your little handouts in the summer, but where are you in the fall when it is cold and snowy or raining...at home in front of the TV that's where.  Meanwhile because I haven't been collecting food all summer like a good ground squirrel should. Now I'm cold and hungry with nothing to eat. SO DO NOT FEED ME PLEASE!  I don't care if you think my eyes are saying one cookie that's all I want. DO NOT FALL FOR IT!!! I will survive much longer and healthier if you just keep your snacks to yourself. 

Oh and one more thing...this is a Canada Goose not Canadian Goose!