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Blue_true

(31,261 posts) Sat Oct 6, 2018, 04:49 PM Oct 2018

Question.

Has anyone seen a squirrel lick concrete. It is fall in Florida. I see a young squirrel out on my patio licking away at the concrete. I have no idea what it is after. Has anyone seen this before?

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Question. (Original Post) Blue_true Oct 2018 OP

I'm going to guess it is trying to get salt. CentralMass Oct 2018 #1

Maybe. Blue_true Oct 2018 #2

I did some net research. You are right. Blue_true Oct 2018 #3

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

1. I'm going to guess it is trying to get salt.

Reply to Blue_true (Original post)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 04:54 PM

Oct 2018

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

2. Maybe.

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 05:41 PM

Oct 2018

But I don't know where the salt would come from. I live 60 miles inland from the Gulf and Atlantic. I used window cleaner on the picture window months ago, but we have had oodles of rain since then.

But, your guess is as good as any that I can gather. It was trully a strange sight that I have never seen before.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

3. I did some net research. You are right.

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 06:22 PM

Oct 2018

It likes the concrete to get minerals, especially during the Fall. I was amazed to find information, but it apparently a common occurrence. Some people put out salt licks for squirrels and other animals.

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