Squirrel.

When I was a kid, if something in the house went missing or got broken, my folks would ask me and my older brother which one of us was responsible. Usually we'd both deny it. "Oh, I guess the cat did it," my old man would offer sarcastically. I always insisted that it was distinctly possible. ...

When the fire alarm goes off in a public school and there was no fire drill scheduled, you know the principal must think, "Oh great, no I have to figure out which one of these bratty kids pulled the alarm." As it turns out in this case, however, it wasn't a bratty kid at all. It was a bratty squirrel. Well, I think it's obvious what happened here. That squirrel had a history test first period that it didn't study for, and it thought it could weasel its way out of it with this sneaky move. I bet he thought he was being sly as a fox. But somebody ratted him out. ...

In this vintage clip from "The Joy of Painting," Bob Ross bottle-feeds a baby squirrel that he borrowed from some "bird lady in Muncie." Whatever. We don't care how he got the squirrel or why he demonstrated feeding it on his painting show; we're just glad he did. "Aren't they the most precious little characters you've ever seen?" Yes, Bob. Yes, they are. ...

Everybody knows that squirrels love nuts like nothing else. They are most known for their constant, all-consuming drive to collect and store nuts. So what would happen if you ground a bunch of peanuts down to their sticky, gooey, delicious, concentrated essence, packed the concoction into a convenient jar and presented it to a hungry squirrel? Pretty much exactly what you'd expect to happen, actually. ...

Not every amazing animal photo is taken through luck or happenstance. Some of them are elaborately contrived. According to Redditor ecn04002, to get this shot he "had to get him close to the table with a trail of seeds, slowly trusting me as I would move around him. Then [I] got him to climb up the table where his precious seed was waiting for him. His only requirement was a cross-species kiss." When all was said and done, it took 45 minutes to get the shot. Doesn't matter; still cute. And weird. And a little bit creepy. But mostly cute. via Reddit ...