rj-squirrel1Today, for the second time in a week it was a flying squirrel.  Usually they’re easy enough to catch but this one had extra vim.  Last week’s managed to run up my leg inside my pajamas so perhaps I was a little hesitant with this one.  Audubon says they are easily tamed “to the hand” in less than half an hour.  Evidently this one was behind on it’s Audubon reading because once I caught it I was thinking of taking another picture and it started in on my hand with it’s rodentine incisors.  Thus it was considerably less than half an hour that we were together as I rushed it to the door while it gnawed on my index finger.  Usually the cat only brings in dead rodents; perhaps it classifies flying squirrels as birds that it should show me before eating.