Watch These Frustrated Squirrels Go Nuts! Deep Look
I completely identify with these squirrels. It never occured to me how something like frustration would lead to a reaction that encourages innovation but it makes total sense.
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Growing up, my next door neighbor was an older gentleman who made a type of pooper-scooper out of a pole and a frozen oj can with a parabola cut out of one side that he used to pick up black walnuts from his yard that fell from his tree. He tamed a squirrel to ride on his shoulder while he did this chore, giving him a nut every now and then while he scooped them up.
Later in her life, my mom started taming squirrels to the point they would come inside the house and eat nuts on the carpet while she sat down with them and watched.
I was never that patient, but I remember one rainy day in college walking back to the dorms after class. There was a tree close to the sidewalk I was walking on, and a branch extended over it at about 6.5 feet off the ground, and a squirrel was on it, frozen, probably thinking/hoping it wouldn't be noticed. I didn't make eye contact with it, but just as I was passing underneath, I jumped a little and "booped" him lightly on the nose. I came down and kept walking but turned to see his reaction. He stayed frozen for a second as if he couldn't believe what happened to him, then he turned and started angrily chittering at me. I believe if he had some of his squirrel friends with him, he would have come after me. 
TlalocW
Tip it over, beat up on it, wage war on an inanimate object. Or I can ask a squirrel what to do.
