The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127732   Message #2854389
Posted By: Little Hawk
02-Mar-10 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: AlienatedRomanDachshundsOf Scotland +or-
Subject: RE: BS: AlienatedRomanDachshundsOf Scotland +or-
I do! And have been doing so for many, many years. I can't do both at the same time, though, because squirrels are not nocturnal.

It's fun chasing squirrels. You pretend at first to have no interest in them until they wander quite near. Then you suddenly make a wild rush at them. The squirrel immediately bolts up the nearest tree and then goes into a frenzy of furious chittering and squawking abuse that can go on for some time. If you imitate his vocal insults and make rude gestures, he gets even more upset and starts jumping around on the limb in extreme indignation. The objective is to get the squirrel so upset that he falls out of the tree. That almost never happens, but it's fun trying...

Dachshunds do this too, in their own fashion, but their intention is to catch the squirrel and eat it when it falls out of the tree. They very seldom succeed.