In our September issue, we feature this funny photo of a squirrel stretching in a tree, sent in by Linda Hoopes of Indianapolis.
We want to hear your clever caption for this photo. We’ll use some of the best suggestions in our upcoming November issue. Thanks!
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The moment when you realize you just sent a chat to the WRONG friend!!!!!
Today is “Grab some nuts day!” (August 3)
Oh Noooo! My nut!
Don’t touch that acorn, it’s mine…..
AAAAAAAAAACCCCCCOOOOOOOOORRRRNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie please!!
RAIN! Please for goodness sakes, RAIN!!!
“NOOOOOOOO! I’VE DROPPED MY ACORN! MY BIG BEAUTIFUL ACORN!”
Come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to get moving! Looks like Falls coming!
Water! Water! They’re using the Hot Bird Seed again!
Hurry, throw it up here. I’ll catch it!!!
Yuk! that nut is awful,let the chipmonks have it!
New Yoga Move: Downward Facing Squirrel
OH, @#$%^&*!!!!! Dropped it!!!!
Mommy!!!!!!!!
I just know I can get to that bird feeder from here….just a little bit further and I’m there!
They would put out the CORN now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, no you don’t that is my food!
OH, NO! Squirrel brakes needed here!
Aw “NUTS”, I dropped it.
Aaaaaaaawwwww they moved the seed feeder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
UGH! That wasn’t bird seed.
What?! Eeeck, it’s Fall already and I haven’t collected nearly enough nuts for the Winter yet!!
Man, that balance beam is tricky!!!
NOOOOOOOOOO!! That’s MY stash!!
Give me back my nut!
“THE NUTS ARE FALLING!, THE NUTS ARE FALLING!” -(CHICKEN LITTLE STYLE)
OK, WHO greased this tree????
Practicing for the Olympics on a tree is nuts!!
just grab my paw! I ll help you up
Throw me the nuts!! THROW ME THE NUTS!!
THIS will scare that old cat so he’ll Never chase me again!
Hurry hurry the nuts are falling
Ugh! My wallet!
“Of course I know where to stash it . . . just toss it up!”
Please Mr. Doggie just let me down out of this tree and I promise, I’ll never come back!!!!! I swear……
What?!! A squirrel-proof feeder??!!
Who you calling Rat?!
“Come to Momma, baby!”
Bleeh!!!! Whew! These frontal extensions are rough!!!
Hey Numbnuts! Where ya goin’ with my stash?!
Sweetie don’t go! I’ll never do it again!
Aw Nuts !!! They removed the birdfeeder full of yummy seeds !
Practicing my front dive for the next Olympics
HEY! THAT’S MY PEANUT…
Blech! That one was rotten!
Please, please! No more raiding the bird feeders! I’ll be good!!!!!
“Noooooo!!!!! My nuts!!!!”
Now I know how Scrat feels!
What????? A snowflake???? I haven’t stored enough NUTS!!!!
Hurry, look, she just filled the bird feeder!!
“Please don’t leave me with the babies!”
OMG
Stella!
Olympic squirrel
“Me, me,! Throw it to meeeee!
If Gabby can do it so can I !!!!!!!!!
Hey give me my nuts back!
Here, here! I’m open. I’ll run it the tree & pass from there. It’ll be over there heads. Trust me!
“Me, me! Throw it to meeeee!”
Ahhhthh, tail caught in the crook.
Noooo! My Nut!!
Throw it i’ll catch it.
Eeh! I think I just ate a worm!!!!
OH MY GOD!!!!!! I DROPPED MY NUTS.
Wait…….don’t leave yet, I’m not ready !!!
NOOOOOO! That was MY peanut!
Holy crap! She just put out a new bird feeder! I’m coming!!!!!
Ooops! I better put on the skids!!
Mercy Please it was not me but that other squirrel that raided your bird feeder!
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No! It is Super Squirrel!
Help I Lost my Nut to save my baby up the tree.
Stella!!!!!!!
It is so hot out here, Please give me a drink.
I SO got out of bed on the wrong side this morning!
NOOOOOOOOOOO, MY NUUUUTTTTT……….
This is the perfect angle for me to land on that bird feeder…
It’s my acorn, give it back !
Enough of this exercising!!
I will to catch it!!!
STELLLAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Holly crap!!I wish I hadn’t cut my nails so short.
OH Baby, please come back, I’ll give you some of my nuts!!
WATER, WATER, I’m dying for a drink of WATER!!!
“Hang upside-down and cough” he tells me. ‘Just relax,’ he tells me. Thank goodness these tail check-ups are only once a year.”
OHHHHHH I’m so hung over!!!!!
Yesss!!! There IS A God!!!!!!
Help, help the little red guy is after me again!!
OH No! I’m going… down !!
One, two, three, hut, hut, hike the nut already…….
Come on!!! I’ll catch ya!!!!
So much to do, so little time!
Oops …. I’m falling. Watch out below.
Throw the nut to me i’ll catch it….
OOPS…. that’s gonna hurt, sorry son!
Oooohhhh noooo!!! Not my nut’s !!!
(GASP!) FORGOT MY CELL PHONE!!
Help! I’m falling, and I can’t get up.
Ooooh nuts! I’m falllllllling…..
And now we know why the season’s called Fall. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Downward Dog
UR doin it wrong!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..I dropped it!
HONEY,Your home.
“How many times do I have to tell you kids to quit acting like nuts and get in here and eat your supper!!!!!”
” Ok Ralphy, throw me the nuts one by one from the ground!”
Squirrel World’s Best Bungee Jumper!
“Why Didn’t I, Think of That?”
Romeo,,,,Romeo,,,,, throw me your nuts,,,, I’m mean my nuts!!!
Just a little further, almost there. Almost got it.
“Blech… that was one nasty tasting acorn!”
One phrase: IT’s N-U-T S-E-A-S-O-N !!!
Yikes !!!!!!!!!!
Wait for me!!!!
Hey, Wait for me………………….
Okay, you said you’d catch me, heeerrrree III cooommmeeee!!!
“No!, Not THAT feeder..”
Ahhhhh! Another day and another “NUT” I have to deal with.
Dear Mr. Squirrel, While we appreciate Shakespearean-style actors, melodrama in and of itself does not qualify you for the role as the next captain of a starship. Cordially, Admiral James T. Kirk
Why do humans make it soooooooooooo hard to reach!
Just…one….more….inch….
“What should I do for my dismount?”
No, that’s my nut!
Woohoo, bird feeder here I come!!
I’m going for the GOLD
Help I’m falling and can’t get up!
Ahhhhhhh……(scream)!
Romeo, oh Romeo, whereforth at thou?
Toss me the ball as im safeguarding this big ol tree. I have no competition here.
Let go of my tail!
If i stretch a little further i c an reach that nut.
“I’ll get it”
Ohhh honey PLEASE believe when I said you R the only one..she was only checking out my stash of nuts….Really!
… and so, Wilbur hopes that this photo will win him the role of Scrat in the next Ice Age movie.
I’m clear! Throw the acorn! HERE!
Oh NO!!!,,,, I’m slipping!!
I just downloaded all the nuts from your tree and you don’t know where I put them.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Who let the dog out?
“Up here! Up here! Throw the nuts up here!”
HONEY IAM HOME WHATS FOR SUPPER
Oh! I see a feeder of Oiled sunflower seeds, HERE I GO:
“Watch Out! Here I come! That acorn is all mine.”
Come on Son, throw that nut to PaPa! You can do it!
Look Mom ..no haaaaaands!!!!
Time for a brake check-up!!!!
OMG! I’m out of here, see ya!
Catch me Mom!
“Don’t worry guys, I got this one”.
The world awaits me!
YEAH! PEANUTS!
Just can’t reach that Feeder!!!!!!!!!!
Stellaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
I’m open…. I’m open, throw the ball!!!!!
No…don’ take the bird feeder
Oh no I’m gonna throw up.
Help’….Pull Me Out,…I’m stuck !!!
Man, going for the Gold (nut) is hard work.
Oh No!! That cat is back again.
Fermented nuts…. Never again….
Sorry I double posted. Couldn’t find my post anywhere.
Whoops, I don’t know how long my legs will hold me on this tree….throw me a lifeline, please.
I ‘m so HOT! Is it ever going to cool off and rain?
Help Mommy!….. But I don’t wanna climb down by myself!
Water!!!!! yepeeeeeeeeeeee! water water water
Ohooo, its a long ways to the ground.
Who put tofu in my acorn!!??
” Hurry! …. Pass the acorn up and over to me ! “
BOOO!
Come on I wanted to hit snooze again!!
Oops.
Oooops!
My Precioussss…
Oh no my nutssss.
I hate the taste of rotton acorns yuk!!!!!!!!!
She kissed my mouth, and ran away.
“Oh gag me with a spoon! Why didn’t you tell me we were having last year’s acorns for breakfast?!
Hooray! there are finally here and it’s lunch time
“I am a leaf in the wind…”
OMG that nut was baaaaad.
Did someone say “Koolaid for Squirrels” ???
Ech! That was one of those styrofoam acorns that fell off the Holiday Wreath.
Here comes one of those humans now i’ll spite on his head.
Look George has not unfrozen from the winter thaw yet
HELP!!! I’m falling and can’t scramble up!
“You aren’t really a “flying squirrel” Rocky! Don’t jump!”
“Come back,I didn’tt mean it,honest!”
“Come on Fred throw the acorn up to me…I promise I”ll share it.”
Oh nooo, that was my last acorn!! I think I’m going to be sick!
It’s so HOT – even my claws are sweating !!
Noooooo! That was the big one that got away! No one’s going to believe me now!
I asked for peanuts, not PEANUT BUTTER!!!
Morning sickness is rough…..just look at Opal in that tree…bless her heart. Now you run on over there and take her this nice juicy nut and a wet rag……she’ll be ok in a little bit…..
Look Momma..no haaaaaaands!!!
Stella! Stella!
Catch!
Oops. It fell just as I licked it. How disappointing! It was the best nut I’ve ever seen!
Noooo that was the last nut!!!
Ready, set, Hut one, Hut 2
PpTuuuie — Ugh I hate rancid acorns!
OK! You’re gonna catch me right?!
Mittens the squirrel: “Get me down, get me down — quick, I’m about to lose my cover”. Luckily, he has squirreled away acorns in numerous nests in other trees, in other yards, neighborhoods, & even just across the city’s limits and state line nearby.
Mine, mine……mine!!
Throw them up! I got this, I got this, I got this!!!
Noooooooooooo! Biggest acorn ever just slipped through my fingers…
“Help, I’m falling and I CAN’T SWIM!!”
Ptuh! Who’s the joker who put the limberger in the feeder?
Oh Honey, stay right there, I I’m coming.
I told you I could ….
Please I need water….my throat is parched!
Catch me, catch me, please!!!
One thousand one, one thoursand two, ready or not, here I come!!!
Oh my, looks like I am due for my manicure.
Mom, I promise never to say that word again.
Gee Mom, I’ll never say THAT word again!
” Are you kidding me! You gave my nut to a chipmunk!!”
Blech!! That was a baaaaad peanut!
My nuts! My nuts! Wait for me!!
Anyone know the heimlich??
Stellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
I’ll never become the next Greg Louganis if I don’t lose this fear!
i said, let go of my tail now!!
“That’s the last time I try HOT peppers!”
“That is the last time I try HOT peppers!”
Throw the ball to me! I’m opened!
My nut, my nut! dropped my nut!
nah nah nah nah nah nahhhhh. You can’t reach me up here!
“Oi! MY ACORN!”
“Yes Honey dinner was sooo good.” Or ” your mothers cooking is wonderful”
Don’t listen to everyone else it did taste just like your mothers.
I thought I’d slide down the tree, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, I didn’t know how much that bark hurts!
Whew! Those morning stretches are about to do me in!
“Yowzee….they added cayenne pepper flakes to the birdseed…my tongue’s on fire!!!”
catch me here i come!
“Honey, put the dinneracorns on the table, I am coming home”.
I feel like a muffler…exhausted!
Whew! Certainly is a scorcher today!
I wish my nails would hurry up and dry.
and 3 and 4, and hold that stretch, and 5 and 6…..
Hurry!! Its Trick or Treat Time!!
“Holy crap!! Who put the hot sauce on my nuts?!?”
Aww, Sweetie, Come on back. I didn’t mean it.
Aww, Sweetie, come on back; I didn’t mean it.
Supersquirrel to the rescue!
Stop that thief! He stole my cache!
I am almost there just need to stretch a little further.
Ughh … I hate when this happens!
Blah!!! “Mom I told you I don’t like nuts”
Nuts!! I dropped it again!!
Can’t….Reach….Ground!
OH MY IM NOT A FLING SQUIRREL
Quick!!!!! Rotate this picture 90 degrees counterclockwise!
1 stop in the name of the law and squirrel kingdom 2i’ll slap you if you don’t give me my nut now give me i’ll give you squirrle germs by kissing you hoeoy boy
So close to the nut and yet so far!
Here I come, ready or not!
Guys, where are you? I’m still frozen!!!