> Hmm. My family used to have a birdfeeder, but those darn pesky (but cute) squirrels always got into it.

You just made me think of something really funny I saw once. My grandfather used to keep a weird contraption set up on his back porch when they lived in Kentucky. I have no idea what it was called, but it was a squirrel-feeder. It was comical though, because basically you stuck a dried ear of corn on a nail, with the nail right through the center of the corn. So when the squirrels would come to get the corn, they could make it spin. Sometimes, a squirrel would try to perch on the corn itself, and of course they would get dumped. It was hilarious to watch them.

Gri"is that cruelty to animals?"shny