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Being in the West we have different genus of squirrels, for instance, here in the coastal Pacific region there is the Douglas Squirrel, which, up until recently was actually considered an endangered little varmit - which was amazing becuase they are incredibly destructive but very cute. They are little brown monkey-looking squirrels that are the ones Max & Poppet wait for every morning. They throw huge cones down from our (Douglas) Fir trees and hoard them as food for the winter. They threw a cone down with so much velocity last week it dented my new car's roof. Not happy.That stinks! Squirrels go nuts for corn, here, in Pennsyltucky.
I wonder if it's because squirrels in Cali. aren't exposed to corn as much as they are in PA.
Around this neck of the woods, you can't throw a rock without hitting a corn field. I don't think corn is a popular crop on the left coast.
Casper's Girl-Human is originally from CA. She says that the squirrels and chippies, out here, are different.
She also says that the Eastern Coyote is different than the ones out west. I don't know. I've seen a hundred coyotes around here but not in the west.
Walnuts are also a biggie for squirrels, around here, too. If it wasn't so expensive to buy them, compared to corn, I'd probably feed them to the critters, too.
Wetern coyotes are different, they are high desert in origin and burrow into the canyons and steppes in this area. Not knowing where in PA you are execstly, it could be simply a matter of space - we have so much land out here we are not apt to see them all that much unless in a rural area. Where I am is rural and they do co-exist easily here - the kitties go nuts at night when there's a kill - and the cackling and cajoling ritual between all of them lasts about 10 minutes.