Chapter 1“Alexa, is mistletoe poisonous to squirrels?”
Bundled up against a brisk New England December day, Dillon stopped dancing around his seventeenth floor terrace deck to “Run, Run Rudolph.” He didn’t even care that he was making a total fool of himself in front of Nutter Butter, the neighborhood squirrel. As long as he fed her while doing it, she didn’t care, either. But he had put the music and dancing on pause a minute or so, to ask the question one more time, just to be safe.
“Here is something I found.”
Alexa wasn’t one to offer a simple yes or no, Dillon knew. She sent him a link to the same reference site every time. That one and several others stated mistletoe was poisonous to humans and some domestic animals, but not squirrels. In fact, Dillon read, squirrels often ingest
