Why It's Not Nuts To Study Flying Squirrel Sex

Ottawa Citizen ^ | March 21, 2006 | Tom Spears & Lee Greenberg

[taxed2death]

She could circumnavigate a whole room by jumping from a lamp fixture to the top of a window sill to the top of the TV to the top of a cabinet to the top of a door frame in a matter of seconds! Fastest darned pet I ever owned. My Rabbit Hank just THINKS he's fast. Molly hauled a$$!

I would sit on the couch and have a plate full of Triscuits and spread some port wine cheese on them. Molly.....weighing about 5 oz. would sneak up and sit near my shoulder. I would put the cheese on the cracker and put the knife down. Molly would bolt from her hiding place, run down my arm which was in 1/2 motion to my mouth... steal the freaking cracker from my hand and go back up to my shoulder all by the time my hand reached my mouth (empty).
She was a blurr.

She would fall asleep in my GF's sleeve of her sweat shirt.... all the while when my GF would be preparing dinner.....didn't matter that there was movement. When Molly was comfortable... she could sack out anywhere.

She had a penchant for running up the legs of visitors.... which became really funny when the visitors wore DRESSES and SKIRTS!

If you walked by the stairs she would ambush you from upstairs and glide down and stick to your head like Velcro.

She had about a zillion hiding places for her nuts...... We keep a bowl of assorted nuts on the end table.... she would spend hours each night stalking the nut-bowl.... peeking out from behind chairs at us... and from over table tops... and "sneak away" with a nut to hide in one of her hiding places. Of course we knew about almost all of her stashes.... so after taking 2 hours to empty the bowl... one of us would distract her and the other would gather up all the hidden nuts and put them in the bowl again... just to screw with her.

Best pet I ever had.
No stink
No mess, No ticks, lice or parasites.
Funny like no other creature I've ever seen.
They "bond" with one human (my GF) and when they get themselves into trouble... like knocking stuff over in the other room.... she's bolt across the floor at warp speed and run up my GF's pant leg... up her shirt and camp out between her um.......in her bra. That was her "safe place"....
LOL

I could go on and on. I highly recommend them as pets.

[GMMAC]

More tax dollar wasting stupidity from Ontario's
(Ottawa-based) Premier Dalton McGuinty:

Ontario seeks input from local (Toledo) official on breed-specific laws


(surely this isn't a self-promoting"staged" photo?)

... only to have the very law this 'expert' advocated
thrown out by a U.S. Court a week later !!!

Pit bulls Toledo's vicious-dog law declared 'unreasonable'

[Tijeras_Slim]

Distant cousin mile-hi club ping.

[Vicomte13]

VOYEUR!

[SquirrelKing]

Any excuse for porn these days, I see.

[SquirrelKing]

Thanks for the PING! Can't wait for the DVD...

[fanfan]

LOL!

GMMAC and I share the Canada ping list.

You just asked to get on it, but we can take you off if you prefer.

Fanfan

[cjshapi]

I couldn't be bothered reading the whole article but I thought this headline might be one you'd like.

[fanfan]

GMMAC,

Ping to post #30.

[Kaylee Frye]

Sounds cool, but I think my cats would eat her... :)

[taxed2death]

I've yet to see a cat quick enough.....I guess you've got to see the speedy little critter in action to appreciate just how fast it really is. When challenged by my cat... Molly would just jump up and use her 10 exacto-blade claws to stick into the closest piece of wood (door moldings etc...).


Cats are pretty fast on a horizontal plane but no match even while jumping, when the vertical axis comes into play.

:)

[Kaylee Frye]

Interesting - so where would I adopt one of these critters if I were interested? :) Does it use a litter box??

[taxed2death]

www.helenslittlecritters.com/

in Texas... I've had a few of these little critters and she's the only one who hand raises them until they're old enough to be shipped. That way... they bond to you easily and are not the least bit afraid of humans. Stick em in a mid sized wire cage... like a gerbil cage... with wood chips on the bottom. make sure the mesh on the bottom is close...so they won't hurt their feet and get them caught. They only defecate in one corner of the cage so you will not find it necessary to change all of the wood chips in the cage. By far the neatest pets I have ever had. They're nocturnal... they catnap most of the day and pop out at late afternoon and play for about 4 - 6 hours and then cat nap the rest of the night on and off.

One warning. Open toilets are deadly. They'll fall in and drown. Please keep the toilet seat DOWN!

[taxed2death]

http://www.helenslittlecritters.com/southern_flying_squirrel.htm

[Kaylee Frye]

Interesting - thanks for the info. Now to convince my husband that we need to live with a farm of animals. ;)

[Sofa King]

The first image that leapt to my mind was that of the squirrles having sex while flying. It's a hard image to get out of one's head, I find.

[Sofa King]

He must have been related to Chuck Norris.

[Stone Mountain]

I would put the cheese on the cracker and put the knife down. Molly would bolt from her hiding place, run down my arm which was in 1/2 motion to my mouth... steal the freaking cracker from my hand and go back up to my shoulder all by the time my hand reached my mouth (empty). She was a blurr.

On the Simpsons, Homer had a similar experience when they had a bunch of puppies move in!