My heart was racing because I thought they must have slipped out the door when I had opened it, so I went outside calling their names - well yelling their names actually. If they were loose in the mountain I would have to do a lot of walking to find them, unless they willingly came back.
But some how deep inside me I knew they could not have gotten out past me. So again I searched the house and then went out on the back porch. This is when I saw Rags backing out from a narrow space between upright freezer and window. I called Susie and she backed out of the same space.

Then I noticed bird seed and empty seed pods all over the rug and table from a bird seed feeder that was setting on the table.
HUH? Dogs eat bird seed? NO Way!
Outside there is a huge wood pile stacked under the windows, and we were hanging feeders from the porch eaves, and the squirrels were climbing
the wood pile and look in windows tantalizing the dogs when they got on the feeders. So we could no longer hang feeders there.
Then the realization really hit home, when I looked and saw one of the screens pulled down on one of our large opened windows and saw holes in the screening. The pups had the squirrel cornered but could not get at it because of big table board we had setting there.