If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes...

First a housekeeping note. If you came here wondering if I'd stopped blogging, because you stopped receiving emails alerting you to new posts, well...I have not stopped, I post every Mon, Wed, and Fri. Google threatened to stop sending those emails last year, and it looks like they finally made good on it. I've not set up a new notification system, I'm thinking on what to do. In the meantime rest assured that if you come here—www.thedangergarden.com—there will be three new posts each week. Now to today's post...

I hadn't been in the back garden all day and since we were leaving for the afternoon I walked out to quickly survey things. It was another extremely hot day and I didn't want to miss a plant in distress...
Everything looked good, but as I turned back towards the shade pavilion, I noticed a squirrel on the chair to the left. Cute.
Then I watched him jump to the back of the chair and quickly up into the mental container with the huge rhipsalis in it, just behind the chair. He did it so smoothly, so confidently, that he'd obviously done it before.
He then disappeared from sight. The rhipsalis is in a terracotta pot tucked into the metal container, there must be just enough open room between the terracotta and the metal for a squirrel to fit. When I water generously, the water runs from the terracotta and pools in the bottom of metal. I figured he was after water and wondered how he knew it was in there...
I then watched a little squirrel paw reach up and grab ahold of one of the rhipsalis stems. It disappeared from view, but then the base began violently shaking. The little furry-tailed jerk was eating the rhipsalis! He didn't jump up there for water, he jumped up there for a plant buffet!