No Mommy! I wasn't playing in the dirt again! (The Whopper)

I don’t know what you mean! I get dirty all the time? No way! I’m a TREE squirrel, not a GROUND squirrel! THEY get dirty all the time digging their holes and stuff! Huh? No, I don’t wanna make all the relatives think I’m ashamed to be a tree squirrel! I LOVE being a tree squirrel it’s just… Well, there’s ALWAYS dirt under the grass and sometimes, yeah! The dirt jumps up out of the grass and it grabs a hold on the smallest squirrels – like me! It won’t let me go until the grass pulls it back down and then I can run away and try to get clean again, up in the trees where I belong!

Whopper? What whopper? That’s the TRUTH, Mommy!

Baby squirrel here was captured doing the wrong thing in Sacramento’s Capitol Park with the Nikon D90 and a Nikkor 18-105mm lens.