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Dont F with squirrels!

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Monday, July 18, 2011 6:11 PM

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Lab has baby squirrel pinned down... and Mother sees it from above!










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Monday, July 18, 2011 6:42 PM

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This is why animals shall inherit the Earth.


The same Govt that perped the 9/11 Massacres is now raping all airline passengers

Humans refuse to defend their own children...and even murder 10-million kids every year in USSA THEN EAT THEM in cosmetics and vaccines (or soup in Commie China and abortion offices in USSA).








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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:38 AM

DREAMTROVE


That's just awesome. I love the expression on the dogs face in the last on... "Um... What just happened?"

ETA: Updated for the 21st century: Now the "you're a wuss" line is "You just got your ass kicked by a sQirl"

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:38 AM

BYTEMITE


Very startled and unsettled dog - "And the last thing she said, before she ran back up the tree, was: 'I will take your nuts.'"

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:28 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


MOST excellent, PN, thank you! Maternal instincts will win out every time (even tho' in some cases they don't solve the problem...the mama squirrel is lucky the lab wasn't serious about it all).

I love our squirrels. I've got feeders out for them as well as the birds, and they've pretty much taken over the bird feeders...I guess the goodies are better (tho' I stock the squirrel feeder with striped sunflower seeds rather than black-oil!). We've got a window feeder, and they even found THAT! They greys are too big, so they have to stand on the ledge and reach in


but the little reds actually CRAWL INTO it and stuff themselves.


We get a kick out of watching them, and watching the "squirrel wars" as they vie for a place at the feeders.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 7:55 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Agreed, someone needs to add a "WTF?!" caption to that last pic of the dog - speakin of which, apropros of nothing...



Hehehehe

-F

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I loves it! Thank gawd none of those guys lives around here; they could FORCE me to keep the feeders filled!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:29 PM

DREAMTROVE


Quote:

Originally posted by Bytemite:
Very startled and unsettled dog - "And the last thing she said, before she ran back up the tree, was: 'I will take your nuts.'"




Lol, except that I think the dog is also a female.


Niki,

That second pic is hysterical.


Frem,

Lol. I think the whole series could have appropriate memes.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:56 PM

MINCINGBEAST


This is all unnatural and wrong, which is to say, not cute.

The strong devour the weak. This is natural, and beautiful, and healthy.

I sympathize with the dog, just as I sympathized with Wiley E. Coyote, and Skeletor, etc..

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:16 PM

DREAMTROVE


you are generalizing, Beast. *This* sqrrl takes down dogs, if you please. Other squirrels might be food. That's evolution for you.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:11 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Cats are also one of those critters who's aggression is all out of proportion to their size, many a cat has chased a bear or other large animal away, including the now-infamous Jack the Cat, who managed to tree one... which kinda makes me think of this, since he was mentioned.



As for crazy squirrels, we have those big fat red ones around here, they're practically pets as the maintanence chief and others feed em - but he has a special rapport with em like I do most of the other critters, they actually follow him around.

Even funnier is they have some sorta deal going on with the raccoons, where the Squirrels act as lookouts and sentries, and will alert the foraging Raccoons to threats, in exchange for what I've no idea, they don't eat the same things, and the Raccoons around here are complete wimps, they lost the turf fight over the park to the damn Bunnies, I got a hell of a laugh out of watching a large Raccoon being chased outta there by an herbivore half his size, heh.

I get to see some pretty cool wildlife around here, we have a Coyote which hangs out down by the water, saw a pair of deer on the property next to us recently, and a Fox resides there as well - most of our birds are garden variety, lots of robins, but I did see a really bright red cardinal a while ago... when I do the late to really early shift, just before sunrise there's this triumphant chorus of birdsong and other nature critters all celebrating a new day, and I swear it's almost like a symphony, it's really cool - there's also a certain beauty to the night, that most people never see.

-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:29 AM

BYTEMITE


Wild bunnies are actually pretty crazy and vicious when backed into a corner, which is surprising considering how timid they normally are.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatershipDown

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:42 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Hee, hee, hee, Mincing, that's one for you; DT took you seriously! See what happens when you're not around for a while (this is NOT to encourage you not to be around!)?

Yeah, that little guy is a gas. He even stays there, despite the fact that the kitchen sink and counter are directly under the window, so we're pretty close when we're mucking about.

One of the greys (maybe that one) is REALLY bold. He will stand up, get a nut, sit down on his haunches and chew it while I'm actually standing there...I tested it and he let me get about six inches away from the window before he ran away! He was looking me right in the eye, too.

Our squirrels are somewhat skittish of us, but the feeders are right outside the kitchen door and the reds in particular are pretty bold, will either stay there as we walk back and forth in the kitchen, or jump up on the chains (which hold up my hanging flowers, if anyone wondered) and sit there watching, waiting 'till it's safe to get back down.

We've created our own "breeding ground", I think, because this last Winter they were all over the feeders, and come Spring we got little guys. They were funny as hell to watch as they learned the ropes--or chains as the case may be. They'd run so fast they'd fall over and be upside down, struggling to get back up, and one ran around the tray under the feeder, forgetting how he got down there, and ended up JUMPING the six or so feet to the ground! The little guys seem even less threatened by us, which is neat and not surprising, but now I can never stop feeding them, and they're eating me out of house and home! I need to put out a cheaper kind of food, in which case they might go elsewhere. All three of us enjoy them, tho', so I'll never stop; I just wish they'd go back to eating the (cheaper) sunflower seeds I put in THEIR feeder; the birds have to swoop in for food (in both window feeder and the regular one) when there's no squirrels monopolizing the bird feeder!

The only negative for me (aside from the cost) is that every evening I have to take the feeders in and sweep up the leftovers in the big trays I put under each feeder to keep it from falling on the ground. Otherwise, the rats have a feast, and the rats are a problem. Woman next door doesn't do anything about what falls, so SHE's breeding rats while I'M breeding squirrels, I guess.

I do love 'em, tho'. The squirrels, that is!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:46 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Frem, as usual I sit here drooling enviously at all the wildlife you have around you, and how you get to observe so much. Our feeders are the ONLY place around home we see "wildlife"; we have deer roaming up and down the street at night, can hear the "bandits" (as we call raccoons) arguing their way down the street, and see the rare 'possum, but to see anything else we have to hike the Mountain. I'm jealous. Before everyone fenced their yards, we USED to see things all the time, dammit. "Civilization": bah. It was much more "civilized" before all these yuppies moved in!

And yes, you are certainly correct about cats, you'll get no argument from me on that score! Never heard of rabbits being brave like that, however, and would love to have seen it.

And of course you already know we both share a love of Wiley; this has reminded me I need to get my DVD out and watch some more (I portion it out slowly, or at least I try).


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:13 AM

DREAMTROVE


Quote:

Frem:
Even funnier is they have some sorta deal going on with the raccoons, where the Squirrels act as lookouts and sentries, and will alert the foraging Raccoons to threats, in exchange for what I've no idea, they don't eat the same things, and the Raccoons around here are complete wimps, they lost the turf fight over the park to the damn Bunnies, I got a hell of a laugh out of watching a large Raccoon being chased outta there by an herbivore half his size, heh.



Yes, it's curious, they do that here too. The other ones to do it are birds, particularly catbirds and chickadee. I just read recently that the chickadee distress call is the most universally understood in the animal kingdom, and thousands of species will take note when they hear it.

I gather the first impact is a good neighhbor policy. "squirrels are awesome" everyone says. And then you watch 'em plant trees and say "and hard working," so who knows how that works. But probably when it comes to feeding time you think "i'm not going to begrudge a squirrel, as long as there's enough to go around."

It's also curious how bullies get treated in the animal world. I'm sure anyone who has seen the big bird small bird fight (pity the big bird, seriously) but have y'all see the small bird whose fight it isn't of a different species spoontaneously join in on the side of the small bird? I've seen a fair amount of that around here... Once I saw four different species of small bird against the big bird.

Kinda reminds me of something



That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Friday, July 22, 2011 9:11 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

I just read recently that the chickadee distress call is the most universally understood in the animal kingdom, and thousands of species will take note when they hear it.
Fascinating, I never heard that! I love their call--they are the most populous of all the birds we get, and given they "chirp" CONSTANTLY and very distinctively it makes sense-0-I just never heard it before. I think that's COOL!

The small-bird-big-bird thing goes beyond bullying (on the big bird's part anyway!). We constantly see our red-winged blackbirds going after hawks who just happened to be flying by; I gotta give 'em points, 'cuz it's almost invariably ONE blackbird harrassing the hawk, but I think the bully in this case is the blackbird, unquestionably!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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