Responding quickly and early to today's column, reader Louis Alder sends this story:

Dan--we decided one year to change the color of our pool and drained it to paint the concrete. While it was filling I noticed a squirrel inside and watched in amazement that he or she was actually sqimming, and enjoying it too. The squirrel would go into the part of the pool with the water and then come up to the empty end and shake off the water and fan out its tail and just lie there for a few minutes and then go back for another swim. It's a good thing we took pictures.