Posted on 01/05/2017 8:34:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
How to stop squirrels from stealing chocolate bars? (Reddit)
Hahahahaha....I saw the title first, and thought “This has to be a nickcarraway thread!”
He can borrow my dog. I guarantee he won’t lose any more.
Lol.
Squirrels laugh at dogs.
They could come to my house. I’d be happy to feed them chocolate bars ... and walnuts, they usually like that too.
That was hilarious!
Now, I know squirrels are rodents. I know they can be destructive. I know they can be a pain in the butt.
But I just cannot help but admire them. There is something about them, they have...personality. They are adventurous. They have flair.
They can’t cross a road if their lives depended on it, but they are all those things.
I have always thought that when God made squirrels, he assigned the programming of the road-crossing function to a somewhat fallen angel. I think God wanted to give that angel a chance to do something right, but...it just didn’t work out.
What I found really funny was, of all the things it could steal, it knew exactly where the thing with the nuts was, and before it screwed out the door, it paused and repositioned it so it wouldn’t get knocked out of his mouth easily.
I do believe it’s time to place the candy up higher away from the floor. They should also be under plexiglass, the way Walgreen’s does it. The squirrels learn very quickly and teach each other where to find the best easy-chocolate.
The store owner needs to do something now before the animals become more aggressive. They may be climbing up a customer’s leg next week, hoping to snatch the candy out of somebody’s hand. That’s Stage 3.
I wonder what chocolate fed squirrel tastes like.
“But I just cannot help but admire them. There is something about them, they have...personality.”
I agree. The owner needs to view this as a positive thing - use the footage from the film to turn this into advertising,
the candy’s so good that even the critters can’t stay away!
I think they let the squirrels steal the candy deliberately...as you said, they could stop it if they really wanted to.
They are probably far better known because of the squirrel thieves!
"Hand over Mr. Big and nobody gets hurt."
And people said I was mad training these squirrels. Now who’s mad??
They say chocolate can make dogs very ill, even kill them. I wonder if it's any different with squirrels.
I love squirrels!
They can make fun pets if raised from babies.
They are as domestic as cats
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