This is the first in a two-part series in which I go man-to-man in a heroic battle of wits with a squirrel.

Now, I know what you're thinking: not exactly a fair fight, my brain against that of a tree-climbing rodent. But don't fret — to even up the odds, I had my dog helping me.

Some time ago, I put a bird feeder out on the balcony because I like to feed birds and not squirrels. Within minutes, however, a small, grey, definitively non-avian squirrel was sitting in it, busi ...

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