Yes, that’s right – you read correctly. I want a pet squirrel.
No, I don’t want a real squirrel… I want a squirrel that I can install on my Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP desktop and laptop computers.
The squirrel should be cartoon-ish, but should definitely resemble a real squirrel as well.
The squirrel should be fully animated (walking around, eating nuts/acorns, falling asleep on the top of windows or on the start bar, occasionally following the mouse pointer around the screen, and anything else awesome that you can think of for my pet squirrel to do).
My squirrel should have a very small tree that sits on my screen (should be movable to anywhere on the screen) which will be the “home” for my squirrel. The squirrel will also sleep on top of the tree, and will hoard nuts, if I give him too many at once.
Oh, yes, that’s right – I can give my squirrel food, water, or pet him/her. He/she reacts accordingly (eating the first 5 nuts, then beginning to hoard them in the tree, or drinking the water, or purring when I pet him/her).
Essentially, I just want my pet squirrel to be happy. My pet squirrel should have an autoinstaller, and should be distributed as a .EXE file. I should be given the option upon installing to make my squirrel appear on boot.
All controls should be placed in a start-bar toolbar menu (with a small squirrel icon) which, when clicked on, displays the menu of everything I can do with my squirrel.
If this description isn’t enough, please feel free to ask me questions. I hope that someone takes this project and builds on it, as I would love to have a pet squirrel that can do things that I didn’t come up with.
Yes, I am dead serious. Thank you for considering my project.