When I took care of a friend's mother, who had suffered a stroke, while they looked for a full-time caregiver, I began feeding the neighborhood squirrels, a practice her husband had begun several years before he passed. They would come on the porch and take a peanut off of your shoe! My dogs found them fascinating. When I brought those dogs to California and would see a squirrel and say, "look at the squirrel" it was hilarious to see them searching for them in the palm trees, having never experienced ground squirrels!