In case you’ve ever worried about the amount of food that goes to waste on college campuses, rest assured that it doesn’t all go to waste.
One of the books I read with my first-year “Thinking & Writing: The Art of Natural History” students is Robert Sullivan’s Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, which gets them thinking about the other creatures that share human habitats and taste our trash. Rats, according to Sullivan, like pretty much the same foods we do, with pizza and other cheesy dishes topping their list of favorites. Now I have photographic proof that squirrels share their ratty cousins’ preference for pizza, this fellow stopping to eat a slice he’d scavenged from a trash dumpster but couldn’t carry up a tree. Maybe next time, he should choose to have his pizza delivered?
Hoarded Ordinaries 
Feb 20, 2008 at 7:35 am
Ha! I think maybe we need to institute a Festival of the Rodent blog carnival.
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Feb 20, 2008 at 8:56 am
Wonder what his cholesterol level is?
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Feb 20, 2008 at 12:34 pm
This is a great photo, Lorianne. And it’s all true what you said. We have a compost box in our backyard, and the people upstairs and I call what we do “feeding the squirrels”.
Birds of various kinds, a skunk [in summer], and even a coyote all get their share too.
Teresa
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