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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 7, 2007 - 10:37am PT
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This is in the Washington Post this morning. Given all the squirrel lovers, I thought some of you would enjoy it -
About 2,500 squirrel enthusiasts belong to the online group The Squirrel Lover's Club. This week you can do what they do year-round: honor squirrels. The first week in October is Squirrel Awareness Week, so maybe you can keep track of the number and the kinds of squirrels you see in your yard or while walking to school. Here's something else to be aware of regarding the furry creatures: There are 35 types of squirrels in North America. The most popular in this area is the Eastern Gray Squirrel.
(By the way, notice the apostrophe in "Lover's" in the article? Doesn't this suggest that those who love squirrels possess clubs? Maybe this group isn't all about loving the squirrels, but more about clubbing them. I gotta stop thinking so much).
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thedogfather
climber
Midwest
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Crimpie, I was walking the dogs over by the lake near my house when I see some sort of animal swimming across the lake. The point where it was swimming was at least 200 yards wide. I thought maybe a snake, but you could see a body behind the head. Maybe a beaver, but it wasn't very big. Muskrat maybe? So I hurried to get in position to watch it exit and it was a SQUIRREL! I had no idea they swam so well. But, maybe it just fell in the lake and took the long way to shore by mistake. It sure looked exhausted when it exited the lake with its tail dragging on the sand.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Harry Conick Jr. pronounces it "squirrel covers".
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Philb,
A friend posted that video to me a while back, and I couldn't stop laughing for a long time. It certainly isn't PC; on the other hand, it's hilarious. Flying rodents.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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oh dear, probably shouldn't be reading the NYTimes magazine article this Sunday then:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07squirrels-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The Lake District, in the north of England, is on the front lines of a new Hundred Years’ War. It is a war between rodents. Since the 19th century, gray squirrels, an American import, have been overtaking Britain’s native red squirrels and claiming their territory. The grays have moved up from the south of England, thinning out the reds along the way. The reds now survive mostly in Scotland and the English counties, like Northumberland, that border it. The grays are larger and tougher and meaner than the reds. They can eat newly fallen acorns, and the reds cannot. They cross open lands that the reds are scared of. They are more sociable than reds, allowing for higher population densities. Although gray males cannot mate with red females, they often intimidate red males out of doing so. “It’s like: ‘That’s my girl. You move away!’ ” Redesdale said.
damn Yankee squirrels!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Redesdale doesn’t travel alone. Always by his side is a man named Paul Parker. Parker is a professional pest controller from Newcastle. He keeps 300 dead grays in his freezer, seven of them skinned, waiting for the day he will have time to cook them.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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better dead than red
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MisterE
Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
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N.A.S.L.A.?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Kathy Bates in Rat Race, "You sure you don't want to buy a sqirrel?"
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SammyLee
Trad climber
Memphis
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I do love them. Especialy quartered, floured and fried. Yummy!
I've hunted squirrel nealry my whole life and if I could just fine me a good squirrel dog, life would be good.
SammyLee
(Who used to hunt birds too, but has stopped in honor of my litte sister)
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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my grandma, sweet little old lady, she catches them in one of those live traps, then she drowns them in a bucket of water....She hates them..
honestly, its one of the scariest mental images I can conjure..
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Squirrels are tree rats.
Kitimus Kat likes em fine!!! She eats the heart and lungs first.
The only good squirrel is a dead squirrel, especially if you are trying to feed birds.
And remember, Pickaxe Ron, you should have bought a squirrel.
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Ouch!
climber
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"I'm making a large-scale version of that catapult now! "
Crowley, that's just being mean and ornery. Since I stopped eating squirrels, I have developed a great fondness for them.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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In the interest of stirring up the potential of this thread, I shall take Ander's anti-suggestion, and speak the name three times:
LEB
LEB
LEB!!!
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Ouch!
climber
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Oh! My bad. Sorry Crowley.
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Ricardo Carlos
Trad climber
Off center, CO.
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Squirrels = Tree Rats with better PR
Not sure what breed of Squirrels we have. I know they are not native but from the east and have pushed out-killed the native Colorado squirrels.
They are kinda yellow grey and I just call them dog treats. They climb low in the trees teasing my dog. She waits runs and does a high jump. Walla new toy-dog treat. Then I have one less tree rat to eat the bird food.
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Ouch!
climber
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I've eaten squirrels from Alabama to California. The only ones fit to eat are southern grays that feed on hickory nuts and acorns. Young ones, floured and fried in bacon grease are the best. The heads are a delicacy, You rip the jaw open and eat the tongue and jaw muscles, then crack the back of the skull with a spoon and eat the brains. Larrupin!
Recent rumors may link the eating of squirrel heads with a mad cowlike disease.
End of report.
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Ouch!
climber
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I thought the Hmongs preferred cats.
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MisterE
Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
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"Deviant Nutcrunchers" LOL
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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LEB did we miss you around the Yellowpines campfire during the Facelift? If you weren't there to hear, there was a common fantasy of your attending... and some pretty funny impressions of your thinking style in the spoken (rather than written) medium. So you were there in spirit, at least.
Embrace the annonymity of avatars. Don't forget avatars are the face the gods show to mortals lest they present the terrible awesomeness of their true beings.
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Wasn't it "Leroy" who put America's first squirrel into orbit?
You squirrel-lovers would have a field day at my place, as long as it's those furry-tailed rats known as ground squirrels you are fans of. My place is like their *habitat*.
Every time I trap one and re-locate his ass to my neighbor's yard it just makes space for two more.
I've tried shooting the damn things and feeding their carcasses to the dogs in the hopes the dogs will see squirrels as food. But all this does is make the dogs associate a gunshot with food. Except for the Doberman. She associates the sound of the rifle's safety being flicked off with food. Apperently she has more faith in my marksmanship skills than the other dogs do.
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Wistful Breeze
Social climber
the haight
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How about hampsters? I like hampsters!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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"I wonder if cats attack domestic birds like chickens, guinea hens etc." Generally yes, but they may avoid a rooster.
Get a goose - they'll beat the crap out of your cats, dogs, and others. Ask Crimpie.
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