Jager loves to sit at the window and bark at the squirrels.  She could do it all day long.  They actually deserve it.  I think they taunt her a little bit, sitting on my front steps eating their nuts staring at her while she tries to get through the window.  When i let her outside she bolts out after them.  One of these days, I am going to get a furry little present!!  I also love it when we are playing in the yard and she sees one.  She gets into hunting mode and her tail goes stiff, and her front paw is lifted up and she creeps up to them, just staring and waiting.   Then she runs after them and tries to climb the tree!!   She actually did catch a possum the other night, but when it played dead she was so confused.  She was barking and whining at it.  She just wanted to play!!  The second she turned her head that possum sat up and ran for his life.  Betcha he will stay out of my yard!!

This was exactly what happened when Button encountered a baby possum late one night in our yard.  Even I thought it was dead from her first "bite".  But it just scurried off when we walked away to get something to pick it up with.  Fortunately, when the girls watch squirrels through the window, they just quiver quietly.  They don't make their noise until they bolt out the door!  Then the screeching & barking begins. 

Phoenix is the same.....He sits in our window and barks. He also makes this other little whinning sound that is so cute. I'm glad he tries to scare them off, they can be such an nuisance at times!

Our late dog, Clyde, was a bichon and never much of a hunter in his later years. He did chase off a herd of deer in our old house when he was about three years old (I think that the stag saw this little white noisy thing and figured it wasn't worth the effort to charge him), but in our new house we're fairly sure that the rabbits were chasing him. The waskly wabbits kept getting bolder and bolder. They were actually nesting near the house foundations.

Then Clyde died (we still grieve a year or so later).

A coule of months later we get Hendryx. He has about an acre of yard to run around, but the smell of small game seems to turn him on.

The rabbits are all gone; they nest in our neigbor's yard where Hendryx sees them and whines to get at them, but they don't come around any more.

The birds with ground nests moved out after Hendryx scored a couple of chicks.

He scored a young chipmunk and proudly showed it off to us.

We've gotten religious about keeping his shots current.

OMG! Your Ty photo in the Superman costume looks like my Eddie in my profile photo!

We cna't even say squirrel in our house without the ratties bolting thru the dog door - we now refers to them as "S".  There's an "S" on the fence, the "S" is hanging down on a palm frond, etc...........

Vickie

I've got a black walnut tree that hangs over my wood fence from the neighbor behind me, and it attracts all sorts of squirrels and critters to my yard. And I have a tree close to my back porch that if you look up, you can actually see in the Y of 2 branches, a squirrel's nest. I have 5 Ratties who go BEZERK when they see or hear squirrels!! I'll have to catch it on video and show ya all. Then there are the brave squirrels who try to run down the top of my fence with 5 maniac Ratties running behind it!! LOL It's quite a site and a major ruckus...LOL

I witnessed Lucky killing a squirrel today.  Ugh!  He looked like he was possessed when he caught it and gave it the death shake. A half hour later he just missed another one.  The squirrel dove under a pile of leaves along the fence and managed to escape. Oscar just likes to run after Lucky barking his fool head off.  I guess it's just nature thinning the herd, leaving the strongest to survive.

Funny stories! I no longer have squirrels in my yard. I have CATS! So the first time Savanna saw them in the park, she wanted them BADLY!!!! Good thing she was on her leash, or she'd still be there chasing them!

Bobbi,

I think that we must have the same type of "evil" squirrels! They will drop the acorns from the large oak tree as we sit on the patio and have even dropped pecans (they have carried from another tree on the other end of the yard) from the oak tree! It drives the dogs(and me) nuts. Pun intended! LOL

Buddy and Dixie seem to know when they are near the house and would go through a door or window if they could for a good chase.