For several months one of the many red squirrels in my neighborhood used to come to my backdoor and eat the nuts I gave her. She was unusually sociable, had feisty qualities like a puppy even. She came over every day and would come a few steps inside the house and take her food from my hand. Then about last September she just stopped coming over, she reappeared once a couple of weeks later, then vanished again and for good. Or so I thought. Last night she came back to my door, almost a year later now. I'm thrilled and astonished about it