Hey Piggies! It's Squirrel Day! Don't let those bushy tails intimidate you! 🐹 🤎 🧡 🤎 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🌰 🌰 🌰 🥕

Riddle me this!

“I’m a little ‘pig’ that isn’t a pig. I squeak and wheek, and I love to nibble. What am I?”


Today is a day devoted to those most busy of creatures, the squirrel! Whether they're red, golden, brown or black, they're everywhere and extremely busy! Squirrels sprint, leap, bury nuts, rebury the same nut, scold passing clouds, and somehow still find time to yell at each other from opposite ends of the tree.

Interestingly, a group of squirrels is most commonly called a scurry! 🤪

Guinea pigs, meanwhile, take a more refined approach to life: snack thoughtfully, nap deeply, snack again, and announce vegetables as if reporting breaking news.

This philosophical divide was clearly understood by Victorian author Beatrix Potter, who both wrote and illustrated squirrel chaos and guinea pig calm.

In The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Nutkin is a one-squirrel vaudeville act—pestering Old Brown the owl with traditional riddles, dancing about, repeating himself for sport, and generally refusing to read the room.

While the sensible squirrels bring polite gifts of nuts, Nutkin brings riddles. Again. And again. Old Brown does not laugh. He does not answer. He eventually tries to eat Nutkin, who escapes minus part of his tail. There's a lesson in there, I think.

Contrast this with Potter's The Tale of the Amiable Guinea-Pig, where the guinea pig’s defining trait is being… agreeable. No riddles, no puns, no risque jokes. Just good manners, good grooming, and steady vibes.

Wheek! Wheek!