Squirrels!
By Ali Canary
@AliCanary (4484)
June 22, 2026 4:48pm CST
Today I learned that some countries, like Australia and New Zealand, do not have squirrels, and one of the highlights of visiting the United States is seeing squirrels just zipping gaily about everywhere. Since they are EVERYWHERE, we tend to take them for granted.
But since this is an international forum, I decided to share what you may not know about my country. We have different kinds of squirrels. The red squirrels are smaller, with long ear tufts. They are very social and cute and ornery. They larger grey ones are extremely smart and can figure out how to get into, around, and inside anything in the pursuit of food. There are also leucistic (white) and melanistic (black) versions of the grey squirrels. So not only do we have squirrels, we have a whole color palette of them!
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@DaddyEvil (175028)
• United States
15h
We have all the colors of squirrels in my part of the US. It's also illegal to shoot the white ones.
The brown squirrels in my back yard play with the bunny rabbits. If you step outside, squirrels will stop and stare at you while the bunnies run for the ditch at the back of our yard.
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@AliCanary (4484)
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6h
Squirrels socialize pretty easily. If you feed them in the park, they'll come right up and sometimes even come up onto your lap! Bunnies are extremely wary.
@FourWalls (87121)
• United States
13h
I love my backyard visitors with the cute tails. 
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@AliCanary (4484)
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6h
They are cute! I bet rats are jealous of those fluffy tails, lol
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@Deepizzaguy (122553)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19h
I did not know that squirrels come in different colors and sizes.
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@AliCanary (4484)
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6h
Yep! The white ones and black ones are just versions of the large grey squirrels, but the red ones are smaller, and of course little chipmunks are a type of ground squirrel. Oh, and I just remembered fox squirrels! They look like the greys but are VERY large, almost like rabbits. I saw some in South Carolina.
@teamfreak16 (43789)
• Denver, Colorado
20h
I love squirrels. Until they run in front of my bike and freeze. 
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@AliCanary (4484)
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6h
I find beeping the horn usually gives them a little motivation (not sure why the car itself doesn't).
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@LooeyVille (54)
• United States
20h
In my area they are grey squirrels with the occasional albino squirrel
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@AliCanary (4484)
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6h
I haven't seen anything but greys and chipmunks in our yard, but I did see white ones in a small zoo at Magnolia Plantation in Charleston.
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@Ineeddentures (36352)
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18h
We have red ones
And we have grey ones
The grey ones were imported
From America
Are bigger than the native Reds
And don't like them very much and are bad to them
Some people think the Greys should be culled
I think not
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@RasmaSandra (98317)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20h
No squirresl come my way lately but I used to have a few visits, This is the last one that came,
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@AliCanary (4484)
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6h
She's got very long ears for a grey! Those look like red squirrel ears! My greys are very snub-eared.
@BACONSTRIPSXXX (18232)
• Torrington, Connecticut
6h
I never knew that, thought they would be worldwide
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@JESSY3236 (22318)
• United States
5h
I think we only have brown and grey ones in my part of North Carolina.
@JudyEv (383065)
• Rockingham, Australia
13h
Thee are squirrels in our Perth Zoo. They run freely and I think have spread a little way into the immediate surrounds. They are not native to us but I guess the first ones were escapees. It's surprising that they never got established and spread more.
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@Wrexxo (2393)
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3h
We have a lot of squirrels here too. .I just don't know there different breed or kinds..I learned something new today about squirrels that are in the USA
