Posted on 03/26/2018 4:50:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I found something that just struck me funny. There’s a story that has nothing to do with anything. It’s in the San Diego Union Tribune. Apparently they’ve got a giant squirrel problem in the public parks in San Diego. Now, I happen to like squirrels, but every time squirrels come up I have a bunch of people start shouting, “They’re nothing but tree rats. They’re nothing but rats with PR. They’re just rats. What do you mean, you like squirrels?”
Well, it goes back to when I was a kid. My mom would actually open one of the windows on our breakfast nook and start banging two peanuts together, and the squirrels would come up, and she would give them to the squirrels. And one of them was a red squirrel, looked like a fox. And she would sit there, “Come on little squirrel,” and they’d all come trooping up, and she’d give them some peanuts and they’d walk away.
They’re on the second floor. They’re on a ledge, second floor, they’d climb down the house. And I’ve always thought they were cute, but people said, “They’re nothing but tree rats. How in the world can you say you like squirrels?”
Well, anyway in San Diego they got a problem ’cause apparently a lot of other people think they’re cute and they’ve started feeding them. And they’ve turned ’em into a bunch of welfare recipients. Feeding the squirrels contributes to their overpopulation.
“‘The main problem is they get tons of food from people,’ said Darren Smith, a natural resources officer in the San Diego region of the state Department of Parks and Recreation. ‘There is the culture of providing extra food for them, and that’s what makes the population grow so much,’ he said.”
And then this. “Too many squirrels become a nuisance. They quickly grow dependent on handouts, lose their fear of humans.” And so they hang around with people. And he says that the squirrels are now showing up in picnic areas looking for food. And then there’s this quote: “They bother people,” said Darren Smith. “Sometimes, they bite people, and steal their Doritos.”
When I saw “steal their Doritos” I just started cracking up. Of all things to steal, they steal people’s Doritos, the squirrels.
Similar thing happened to my adult son...that's when comprehensive with zero-deductable is more than worth the premiums.
Pole dancing?
#18 No she is squirrel *** crazy!
Reminds me of the cartoons by Francis Dahl in the Boston Herald about the squirrels on Boston Common.
Just as Seagulls are Sea Rats... now becoming Bombing Beach Rats! I get so p.O.’ed when I see tourists feeding wild life that I go ape on them! I used to live in MB, now on the opposite coast.
Go to LaJolla Cove.. “Children’s Beach” it smells so bad from the ocean Rats.. Seals, that no one can stomach it!
How stupid can human beings be?
Ad infinitum.
Mark Steyn calls them squeer-els , too. Cracks me up.
Very much so.
They ruined our duct wok for heating system in our Pinetop house in Az.
I’ve seen houses out by the beach where they feed the gulls. Gull poop destroys their roofs.
I used to grow pears, peaches, two types of apples, peaches and apricots. The little bastards would pick a piece of fruit one or two days before the fruit reached tree-ripened perfection, take one bite and leave the rotting fruit carcass behind on a fence post. They would strip entire trees before you could say “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
I solved the problem — I got rid of nearly 100 of the varmints over one spring and summer.
Squirrels and humans will BOTH increase in numbers as long as you keep on subsidizing them.
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LOL! My SIL had horses, and a goat to keep them happy. When we would ride out, that goat would cry so loud at being left behind that we could hear her a mile away.
When we came back and were cooling the horses down, goat would walk up and down, up and down with us. A very sweet little goat.
Same for us, six pear trees and the squirrels taste tested each pear, one bite, then dropped them on the ground. We solved that problem only to lose the next year’s crop to a bunch of Mexicans or so we assume. My husband was out working in the garden when he saw and heard a group of them pointing at our trees, talking about them. Next morning they were stripped even though we have a No Trespassing sign on the fence around the yard.
We used to lose our apricot crop the same way. The tree was close to the street. Just about when they were ripe to perfection and the squirrels were sampling them, the tree would get stripped clean overnight. My son saw Mexicans doing it, too. My peach trees were in the front yard, closer to the house, and got quite big, so they didn’t bother them. But the squirrels got them. There was one tree at each end of the house and their feet on the roof at dawn sounded like a superhighway overhead. They would run from one end of the house to the other just to make sure both trees were devastated an equal amount.
We call it the Squirrel 500, it sounds like a race up on the roof.
Sounds like the horses kept the goat happy!
I know that if one of mine gets separated from the rest; it kinda panics and hollers; too; until they herd up again.
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