The Sciuridae family also include flying squirrels, as well as ground squirrels such as the chipmunks, prairie dogs, and woodchucks.
Ground and tree squirrels are typically diurnal, while flying squirrels tend to be nocturnal — except for lactating flying squirrels and their offspring, who have a period of diurnality during the summer.
Squirrels are generally clever and persistent animals. In residential neighborhoods they are notorious for eating out of bird feeders, digging in potted plants either to bury or recover seeds, and for inhabiting sheltered areas including attics

Squirrels can be trained to be hand-fed. Because they are able to cache surplus food, they will take as much food as is available.
Like other rodents, the species in the squirrel family have four large incisor teeth (an upper and a lower pair) for gnawing. These teeth grow throughout the life of the animal. Some species have cheek pouches where they can temporarily hold food, such as grain, and then deposit it later for storage in a nest or burrow. The tree squirrels bury nuts in the ground for later consumption. Many of these nuts are never found, and the dispersal of many plant species is an indirect consequence: the uneaten seeds and nuts germinate and grow into new plants.

Hello, animal-lovers! How are you! And I missed you and my blog! I was so far from you, but there in Ukraine, I got acquainted with another dogs and cats and just another animals. I perfectly understand, that we all live on one planet, but while being there sometimes I thought that it is a completely another world.

First of all, Ukrainian cats and dogs are very hungry and very often they don’t have a place for living, I mean home or owners, they just lead their own (sometimes extremely difficult and exhausting life). Every hour, every minute they are searching for food, the only one idea comes to their minds where to get food! Also, I haven’t seen any asylum for errant animals. It is a privilege of celebrities and very rich people in Ukraine, to make asylums for dogs and cats, and it seemed to me that they are so unfair while making it and their only goal is promotion and fame. They do not care about poor animals.

Another peculiar feature of Ukraine, almost all cats and dogs have wounds, very often people hurt them.

But I like their squirrels, they are so bold, they are not afraid to eat nuts in front of people.

Also, I liked one car very much, he lived with me for one week and my friend Olya called this cat – Belij Kris, that is a white rat in English.

So, I liked Ukraine and its animals! By the way, I made these photos on my own!