Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for August 19, 2011

My Dad had the bright idea of hanging the bird feeder from a long thin wire, but a squirrel shimmied down it to the bird feeder. The problem was that the squirrel had to wrap his tail around the wire to hold on and the feeder was so light that every movement the squirrel made caused the feeder to spin around. The result—the squirrel got his tail entangled in the wire and couldn’t get loose! My father had to go out, unhook the bird feeder and lay it on the ground. He wasn’t crazy enough to try to untangle the squirrel’s tail himself, he wasn’t going to get close to an animal that can crack nuts with his teeth. He just left him alone and after a while he came back to find the squirrel gone, but part of his tail was still entangled in the wire!