Posted on 07/25/2009 10:49:06 PM PDT by smokingfrog
This story is laugh-out-loud funny! < :D
Nobody needs to get hurt.
Sunflower seeds
Here ya go:
I am a pretty good shot with a hunting slingshot. It uses surgical tubing. All I shoot with it are marbles. I do not like to use anything lead. Marbles would take care of a squirrel.
Of course, I only shoot the leaves off of trees myself.
I can usually hit the leaf if it is within 15 or twenty yards. So... with practice, more than just a little, you could probably have put the squirrel out of its misery. A firearm is noisy and would violate almost every criminal code in this country.
HIGHLY doubtful.
http://rabies.emedtv.com/rabies/rabies-and-squirrels.html
As someone else wrote, they are ~very~ territorial and possessive and there was probably something visual or an odor about the women or child that it found “threatening”.
This deer made the mistake of encroaching upon this squirrel’s food source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRBVh8ZPUyg
The “grunt” is a classic squirrel warning call.
Don’t have a clue what “set it off” but something about them did.
They are also scary smart.
A young one shows up in my maple trees in front of the picture window every morning at dawn with the sole purpose of intentionally playing in the branches and provoking my dogs into apoplectic fits.
It knows it’s untouchable and this is some sort of “game” to it.
If it hears the back door open, it vanishes up onto the roof of the house where the dogs can’t see it or get to it.
You are correct.
Even if one *did* survive the attack of a rabid animal, their metabolisms are *so* high that the virus would -quickly- incapacitate them and kill them.
They’d be in no shape to be “stalking and attacking” anything else.
The idiots in the local city park killed ‘all the rabid squirrels’ one year due to the complaint of one hysterical woman.
She claimed it was “aggressive and repeatedly ran at her” as she sat on a park bench.
They *all* did that because they were used to people feeding them the peanuts the park *sold* for that very purpose and encouraged the feeding, thereof and the squirrel was frustrated that she had no nuts.
[no entendre’ intended....maybe]
One year, before they banned dogs in the park, a surly squirrel jumped up on my knee, screeching...with my Doberman sitting right there with me.
I’d shove it off...it’d jump back on.
Finally I gave up and bought it some peanuts.
It watched me open the cello package and very gently took them from my hand and ran up a tree.
They have mastered the art of blackmail, apparently.
She had peanuts in the stroller? I’ve never heard of a rabid squirrel.
Was the baby’s name Veruca Salt?
Rocky isn’t going to take this very well.
More suspense than his others.
:^)
I was thinking Damien?
Maybe they are alien water proof squirrel's who live in a remote village where the chick who hangs out in the pool sees dead people?
If not rabies, then what?
Do they sometimes just go berserk—like in the Ray Stevens song?
The Discovery Channel did have an hilarious episode about the near-impossibility of designing a squirrel-proof bird feeder.
Their ability to defeat any and all countermeasures was something to behold.
I saw that!
One of my favorite episodes, ever!
They also did one on the unbelievable ingenuity of crows.
I gave up the battle long ago and feed the squirrels their own food so that the birds will get to eat ~theirs~...:)
It helps a lot that my place is absolutely inundated with black walnut, hazel nut, chestnut, beech, maple and oak trees.
Nobody goes hungry.
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