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Nancy Young said:

"Blinky the Shark" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one. 🙂

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are grey)

Jill

Nancy Young said:

... thank you to the most generous person on the planet,
never mind rfc. It was dropped off on my stoop by the
mailman, I didn't notice it when I brought in the mail.

As I stood in the kitchen making crab cakes and coleslaw
for dinner, I keep hearing this noise. Thought it was the
garbage settling. Well, how long does a bag of garbage
need to settle, for pete's sake.

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

nancy

Death to tree rats!!!

jmcquown said:

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OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are grey)

It's odd, but they change colour from one place to another. Most of the
squirrels around her are grey. I got in trouble with my wife a few years
ago because something got chewed up by a reddish squirrel. I still don't
understand why it was my fault, but she rejected that the squirrel was red
and thought I had lied about that. It was more than a year before she saw
that little red [censored] and I was forgiven.

Some one once called her a racist because she said all the squirrels in
Toronto are black. She grew up there and the squirrels are black there.
Around here they are almost all grey.

I say an interesting on the other day while bicycling along the Niagara
Parkway. Just before I got to Niagara on the Lake I saw one that was grey
with a white tail. I saw an albino squirrel in a park in Montreal. I took
a picture of it with my digital camera and for some reason the bottom half
of the picture was blacked out.

Further north the squirrels are mostly red squirrels. While the red and
grey variations are the same species. Greys and blacks are variations of
the same species.

jmcquown said:

Nancy Young said:

"Blinky the Shark" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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> I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
> darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one. 🙂

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are
grey)

It could a gray. Wikipedia mentions that their fur can have a reddish
tinge. There is a North American red squirrel:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel>

Brian

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Dave Smith said:

jmcquown said:

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OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are
grey)

It's odd, but they change colour from one place to another. Most of
the squirrels around her are grey.

(snippage)
The ones in Iowa and thereabouts are black. I'd never seen a black squirrel
before but we were walking to breakfast one morning and sure enough, black
squirrels!

Jill

Nancy Young said:

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

Be glad it was just your cookies. A month ago I had problems starting my
car, and then it was running very roughly. I drove a few hundred feet, then
stopped and opened the hood. Some of the wiring was nibbled away. I drove
back home and took a closer look. Two spark plug wires chewed completely
through, plus one fuel injector wire. The car was only running on 3 out of 6
cylinders!

My brother once had this happen to his car, and another person in my
neighborhood had it happen a couple of years ago. It's not all that
uncommon. I guess it's better than cleaning up the bloody remains of a cat
caught in the fan! ;-)

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wff_ng_7 said:

m.

Be glad it was just your cookies. A month ago I had problems starting my
car, and then it was running very roughly. I drove a few hundred feet, then
stopped and opened the hood. Some of the wiring was nibbled away. I drove
back home and took a closer look. Two spark plug wires chewed completely
through, plus one fuel injector wire. The car was only running on 3 out of 6
cylinders!

My brother once had this happen to his car, and another person in my
neighborhood had it happen a couple of years ago. It's not all that
uncommon. I guess it's better than cleaning up the bloody remains of a cat
caught in the fan! ;-)

The other day a friend sent me a series of pictures with an explanation.
Apparently the car owner/driver was on the highway when he heard something
that sounded like a fan felt snapping. He kept going, trying to figure what
had happened. Power steering and brakes were still working and the engine
temperature was fine. He eventually pulled over and popped open the hood.
There was a huge, now dead, Boa Constrictor in there that got caught up in
the works.

James Silverton said:

I never did make any serious dent in my squirrel population.
When we first moved into the house we tried to grow peaches
without success because the rats ate them first. To add insult
to injury they would sit on the doorstep cracking the pits and
leaving the debris.

Same here. We had peach trees and apple trees for quite a few years but
never had one piece of fruit. We finally removed the trees, since they
were bringing all the rats and all their relatives and friends.

One year I caught 20 of them with a

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Have-a-Hart trap and released them five miles away but I still
got no peaches since the neighbors seemed to just move in. I
restrained myself from killing them and only one died when the
next door cat saw the trap with a squirrel in it and seemed to
have spent the afternoon provoking the rodent because it died
from apparent exhaustion.

Yes, we had a live trap, too. My husband would tote them five miles
away, but swore they were coming back. I just laughed at that but he
was so convinced he sprayed the tails with blue paint before he released
them. Sure enough, we had blue-tailed squirrels.

Things calmed down for a while but they're b-a-a-a-c-k.

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I had a plastic "squirrel-proof" bird feeder but the beasts ate
it!
James Silverton

My late cousin was a quiet, studious fellow, with degrees in electrical
engineering and civil engineering. He was so aggravated by the
squirrels stealing all the bird feed that he strung the feeders on a
line between trees. Didn't stop those suckers. He finally rigged up
a platform, wired it, then waited for a squirrel and pushed the button.
My quiet, studious cousin cackled with glee every time, which made me
crack up too. There's a murderous heart in all of us.

Dora

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http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k89/buccme/?action=view&current=forScottanothersolution-1.flv

Love it! Thanks, Steve.

Dora

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Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.
nancy

Use your strengths to best your foes:
http://tinyurl.com/8fs52
Are we foodies or what?
Edrena

The Joneses said:

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Use your strengths to best your foes:
http://tinyurl.com/8fs52
Are we foodies or what?
Edrena

LOL.... I have to wonder about any recipe that calls for one squirrel and
says to cut it into pieces. Unless the squirrels where the author lives are
a hell of a lot bigger than the guys around here, the recipes must be for
one.

jmcquown said:

Nancy Young said:

"Blinky the Shark" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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> I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
> darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one. 🙂

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are grey)

Fox squirrel.

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Dave Smith said:

jmcquown said:

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OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are grey)

It's odd, but they change colour from one place to another. Most of the
squirrels around her are grey. I got in trouble with my wife a few years
ago because something got chewed up by a reddish squirrel. I still don't
understand why it was my fault, but she rejected that the squirrel was red
and thought I had lied about that. It was more than a year before she saw
that little red [censored] and I was forgiven.

Some one once called her a racist because she said all the squirrels in
Toronto are black. She grew up there and the squirrels are black there.
Around here they are almost all grey.

I say an interesting on the other day while bicycling along the Niagara
Parkway. Just before I got to Niagara on the Lake I saw one that was grey
with a white tail. I saw an albino squirrel in a park in Montreal. I took
a picture of it with my digital camera and for some reason the bottom half
of the picture was blacked out.

Further north the squirrels are mostly red squirrels. While the red and
grey variations are the same species. Greys and blacks are variations of
the same species.

You only missed fox squirrels, such as the one in the image.

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jmcquown said:

Nancy Young said:

"Blinky the Shark" <[email hidden]> wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
>> darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.
>
> Did you say fat? Might've been this one. 🙂
>
> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are
grey)

It could a gray. Wikipedia mentions that their fur can have a reddish
tinge. There is a North American red squirrel:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel>

Reds are much smaller than fox squirrels, one of which is pictured in my
link.

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The Joneses said:

"

Use your strengths to best your foes: http://tinyurl.com/8fs52 Are we
foodies or what? Edrena

LOL.... I have to wonder about any recipe that calls for one squirrel
and says to cut it into pieces. Unless the squirrels where the author
lives are a hell of a lot bigger than the guys around here, the
recipes must be for one.

I grew up hunting squrrels in the midwest. Fox squirrels. Red
squirrels weren't worth it. Black squirrels were what lived in town,
with the very occasional grey squirrel. No, there's not a ton of eating
on any of them; better bag more than one if the family's going to be
sitting down to dinner. 🙂 Recipe? My grandmother just cut them up
and fried them. She probably floured them first; that's what I did,
later, when I cooked them.

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Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.
nancy

Squirrels. Nature's little speedbumps

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Nancy Young wrote:
> "Blinky the Shark" <[email hidden]> wrote
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
>>> darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.
> >
>> Did you say fat? Might've been this one. 🙂
> >
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg
>
> OMG! Is that a squirrel??
>
> nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are
grey)

It could a gray. Wikipedia mentions that their fur can have a reddish
tinge. There is a North American red squirrel:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel>

Reds are much smaller than fox squirrels, one of which is pictured in my
link.

I grew up in Cleveland Oh where the squirrels were always red and remember when
I first reaklized that sqiurrels in columbus were grey. 2o years later seems
normal, but at first only having ever seen the red squirrels it made it feel
like I had moved to another planet!!
to sleep so i got up and slammed the window shut becaus
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Nancy Young said:

"Steve Wertz" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young said:

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

How did he get out of the house? What kind of cookies were they?

Chocolate chip. He wasn't in the house, the box was on the
stoop under the mailbox.

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Heck, the poor dude probably just woke up from hibernation. I'd
be hungry after 4 month, too!

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

See, they know to come to your house 'cos they know you are a good cook and
provider, etc...those squirrels are pretty smart "cookies".

;-P

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Best
Greg

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Nancy Young said:

... thank you to the most generous person on the planet,
never mind rfc. It was dropped off on my stoop by the
mailman, I didn't notice it when I brought in the mail.

As I stood in the kitchen making crab cakes and coleslaw
for dinner, I keep hearing this noise. Thought it was the
garbage settling. Well, how long does a bag of garbage
need to settle, for pete's sake.

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

nancy

Squirrel for supper? :-)
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Nancy Young said:

"Dave Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to
re-locate
the local population one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird feeders,
they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what. I'm getting a
supersoaker for next year, I can give them a blast of water
right through the kitchen window. I tried throwing ice cubes
at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw through a window.

nancy

There is squirrel proofing available for the bird feeders...
Dome tops to go over them.
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