Re: “Some viewers were stunned at the squirrel's meal, not realising they eat meat”. This story caught my attention because I once worked in an office building in MN that was inset into a small forrest. My office had a window on the forest. It had a ledge, and I often saw a squirrel sitting on that ledge. The window was dark – I could see the squirrels, but they couldn’t see me. I once saw a squirrel holding a dead bird, as though it was a candy bar. It was eating the bird, starting at its ass. Interesting, but a bit disgusting.

“This is the moment an unexpected fast food fan was spotted feasting on a  McDonald's cheeseburger.

The corpulent squirrel was caught on camera by Jamie Walton, 36, as it picnicked on the snack near the golden arches in Venice, Florida…”

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If you have bird feeders and squirrel feeders then you might have seen the action. Squirrels eat baby birds & eggs big time.

Squirrels get no quarter at my place.

I'll live trap them and then wait for Mrs. Redtail to be line hunting in the pasture.

I'll go out to the middle of it and pop the trap open. Squirrel gets real friendly about the time it spots the hawk.

I got my lesson in squirrel diet and behavior when a crow flew into our patio window. As the wife and I discussed whether the bird lying on the flagstones was dead, or just stunned, a squirrel zips down the tree, grabs the crow, and drags it off into the bushes, I don't think for a quiet little chat. I remember saying to the wife, "well, I guess he's dead now!" and getting a fist to the shoulder for my witticism.

And do you know what the tree rats drink? Sugar water from the hummingbird feeder. Until the other day when my wife put it away for the year. I was working up a good "mad" so she saved its life by removing the food source. The 22 shot shell would have probably done a number on the feeder.

They eat nachos too, noticed while I was taking a nap on the couch with the door open.
I heard a noise, opened my eyes and there was a squirrel on my living room table about a foot from my face digging into my nachos.

Squirrels will eat just about anything.

The campus of the university I attended was covered in trees, and absolutely infested with squirrels. These squirrels had no fear of humans, and would run around and eat anything they could get their paws on.

Once a long time ago, a friend of mine was dating a college undergrad. She lived in an old dorm, on like the 4th floor and being up that high they'd often leave windows open cause it was safe. Mind that it was brick construction and covered in ivy....

Her and her roommates used to bring trays of food back from the dining hall to their room, and be a little slow to clean up leftovers. Then they started noticing weird things... The unwanted leftovers on the trays started disappearing, and someone was doing this disturbing thing involving stacking chicken bones.

None of the girls would admit to being the one picking over old food and building piles of chicken bones.

Until one day my friends gf saw a squirrel in the room, eating chicken off a dining hall tray. She freaked out and started screaming, the whole idea of being in room with a critter that would stack piles of picked clean bones was a bit much for her. (Especially since it was such an adorable little squirrel....)

Yeah the squirrels were climbing several stories up the side of a building and going in through open windows to eat the discarded leftovers of several slob girls. Apparently the squirrels had a taste for chicken and liked to stack the bones all in one pile.

^^^^^ I refer to them as Tree Rats ^^^^
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They'll eat each other, so a burger ain't no big thing.

The tree rats in my yard eat the green tomatoes like apples!

At one of my former houses in Ohio, I had a squirrel come to my porch most afternoons. With a bagel. A whole bagel. I never did figure out how he got a fresh bagel every day.

My Pit Bull really loves to chase tree rats.

She actually ran one down last year. Killed it in a second with that Pit Bull shake.

Our little western ground squirrels ( we call them gophers) will eat meat as well.

I've shot many a gopher dining on one oof his dead buddies.

Little guy just hit the jackpot! That's enough calories to get him through the winter.

Haven't seen carnivorous squirrels, but in younger days we'd through frogs into the chicken pen.

We'd watch them fight over and eat one. But before it was eaten they'd run everywhere. Used to call it frog football with white vs red chooks.

Touchdown or points everytime one ran into the coup.

Squirrels are omnivores and in a lot of areas engage in cannibalism and infanticide.

They're not always the cute and culldy creatures people think them to be.

I've lost the highway. The one tree rats use. Running on the ground makes them vulnerable to all sorts of predators. Like crows. Yes, they'll eat anything they can catch. So its just warfare between those dirty, noisy airborne things and the vermin of the trees.