Oh! Chihuahua!

The CB is making an effort to keep Class Aves in the picture by feeding those miseralbe little ingrates. However, the suet feeder has been less useful than tits on a boar bear. The only members of Class Aves that ate the dang suet or monoplized that particular feeder are white-winged doves. Go figure! Are doves supposed to like suet? Actually, they were probably after the nuts and fruit allegedly in the suet. Well. Actually. Eventually, one chickadee has gone to that feeder maybe once.

The failure of the suet feeder weighed on Crumby as he bicycled over to the pet store. I need to see if the pet store features real meat suet instead of all that vegetarian crap. Yes. I bet those birds would like some genuine, tortured cow, beef fat without all those vegetables.

Scant time passed ere Crumby espied what he was looking for. Whoa! This is just the ticket.

The actual product ensconced in the package is a block of pink colored processed fat. Mercy!

Well. So far so good. The new suet passed the terrier test. Course terriers will eat anything that's ever been in or on an animal. So maybe the terrier test is not a great test. Nevertheless, if you have terriers you need to hang your suet basket where the terriers can't get it.

Meantime we have identified the vermin cleaning out the sunflower seed feeders. The vermin is (are) hoofrats. Might have known.

This morning Crumby went out and hung up the feeders just before cruel Ogma's rising. Practically right after Crumby turned his back, a pack of hoof rats descended on that feeder. Turns out, one of the hoofrats has figured out how to bump the feeder with its noggin, thus propelling the feeder to a horizontal position and causing the seeds to fall out of the tube holes. Then all the other hoofrats help the smart hoofrat eat up all the seeds. That's why they never left a trace. They ate it all. For heaven' s sake.