January 25, 2003 Maverick broke her leg in pursuit of a squirrel. Prior to this incident she had caught and killed a squirrel, a young raccoon and assorted voles and field mice. She spent over 7 weeks in a cast---which she broke once at two weeks---so it had to be redone from square one as she destroyed the healing that had occurred thus far. The recovery process has been slow but steady. She still limps upon awakening and when the weather is making a change for the worse. Probably always will as it was a short foot bone that broke rather than a long bone. Still, I knew she was back in fine form today when she again captured one of those naughty, power line-chewing, telephone wire-chewing tree rodents.
Funny about squirrels. They are so cute when you first see them. It's only after you've lived with them for a while that their satanic evilness becomes apparent. Still they do inspire art. A lady at my writer's retreat read a story she wrote that started with the protagonist saying Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, after she ran over a squirrel. I even wrote a short story from a squirrel's point of view last year which you can read here if you've a mind to. A town nearby to me is famous for it's Black Squirrels and there is a town in Canada that's famous for it's White Squirrels. All I can say is I have a .22 and a squirrel dog so keep your frou-frou squirrels out of my yard if you know what's good for them.
Those little cute bastards. I don't know -- I like to have wildlife in my yard, and I feed the birds (which means I feed to squirrels), but it's a constant battle with those furballs. They are nature's engineers and they even have thumbs! While repairing my house last fall -- squirrel damage and stuff -- I had to plug one that was tearing into my new repairs. I hid out in my garage with a pellet gun, and when it taunted me from a nearby tree, that was the LAST time it taunted me. I didn't eat it.
Chim Chim: You will have to send me the recipe for squirrel stew. Should I maybe take a class in fur tanning and make a nice jacket too?
JP: Fed the lil bastards corn when I first moved here, prior to realizing their role as satans minions. Took me two years to find a bird feeder that truly is squirrel proof. I have one more branch to severe before the roof is completely unavailable to them. With all the oak trees, the food is plentiful even without human assistance so it's simply a matter of the dog or the gun. Either way, they're going to meet their maker.
Those of you who love squirrels take heart, I will die not having won the battle; there's just too many of them.
Thu 25-Mar-2004 03:45 Posted by:juli
Squirells are evil vermin. Once when I was in school my mom and I made the mistake of feeding the little SOB's and one morning we woke up to an army of them lined up in front of the sliding glass door just peering in and waiting. We couldn't go into the backyard for 3 days. It was like the Hitchcock movie The Birds, only with rodents.
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