Valley Nature I was thinking of this squirrely guy I know while standing in our backyard the other day, waiting for my dog to do his business, procrastinating the process because he knows I’m an impatient person, and waiting around on him drives me crazier than I already am. That’s when I happened to spy a real one. A squirrel that is; and it got me thinking: why have squirrels gotten such a bad rap? In other words, whoever came up with the idea of calling a squirrely person just that, squirrely? Why not a hippo? Or a chipmunk. Rats are already ...